cøelho

São Paulo-based composer and producer Rodrigo Coelho has produced work in many different genres throughout his career, including collaborations with celebrated guitarist and composer Arto Lindsay and drummer Ivan ‘Mamão’ Conti under his grassmass moniker, as well as projects with Brazilian contemporaries Negro Leo and Thiago Nassif. Last year, he released his first album under a new alias, cøelho, which he describes as being suited to “more subtle, contemplative works”. Titled Six Sines, the album came out of his studies using resonant filters as instruments, and draws its inspiration from the complex unpredictability that arises from the entanglement of simple structures in natural and artificial systems. “The ancient game of Go, Conway’s Game of Life, pandemic curves, market variations and the weather, they all present complex results deriving from basic building blocks, as if there’s some kind of algorithm unseen by us; we are puzzled about chaos: it exposes our own limitations