Rodrigo Mejía Armijo, an autobiographical hypertext.

root_problem

I have a problem: I love doing lots of different things, and on top of that, I love pouring time and care into each of them. And I have a family I adore, who also need time and attention. So I tend to feel like there's never enough time.

I love inventing all kinds of things: mostly music (piano pieces, songs, arrangements), but I also invent software solutions, brew fermented drinks, write (once in a blue moon), and experiment with different ways of making coffee, not to mention countless ways of making a good sandwich.

roccons

When I was a kid, I made up a name: roccons. Why roccons? Because it sounded good, and because it started with the same letters as my real name. That name was the brand I used for the things I designed: cars, pens… houses, maybe. Roccons kept resurfacing over the years, first as my alter ego for making electronic music with a marvelous piece of freeware called Jeskola Buzz.

Over the years, the nickname roccons has been stepping further and further into the spotlight. It kept me company on countless Internet forums, and later on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and many other places.

yearning_for_the_future

How I loved Internet forums, where the magic happened, and how I also loved the web in its even more primitive form: hypertext (that organic network where all kinds of information, once out of reach, kept sprouting up and weaving itself together). All of this before the pesky SEO, ruthless marketing, and those insatiable engagement factories known as social media gradually destroyed that chaotic, beautiful, primordial digital paradise.

main_projects

For a few lifetimes I was a musician, and I took part in projects like La Mala Sangre (an original music project where my brother Manuel played synths and I played congas, bongos, güiro and a milk can), Tilingo Lingo (where we recreated sones from southern Mexico and Central America, with a Nicaraguan marimba and a hybrid instrumental ensemble), and Egiptanos (where we explored the Gypsy music of the world).

For other lifetimes I devoted myself to building websites and web platforms, and I kept telling myself that someday I'd manage to combine my work as a developer with my life as a musician. And every now and then that moment would come (Mamá Chilindrá, Lunfardo, Placa Placa Coatepec) and go again, but at this point I can say I've pulled it off. I've learned to take off the computer and put on the accordion, the marimba de arco, or the piano, and then go back to the computer.

the_dream

Now I sing, too.

To be honest, I always have, but it used to be more on the sly, and a bit in fits and starts. Now I sing more and more, and I'd like to believe I'm getting better and better, and that's a dream come true for me, because I always longed, as if for something unreachable, to be able to sing and have people want to listen. I used to say I played the accordion to stand in for my broken voice, but now I'm happy to show the world that broken voice, that voice of mine.

In late 2026, already on a roll, I had the nerve to enter the "Hugo Jordán" tango singing contest, and that nerve was rewarded with 2nd place.

I'm deeply grateful to everyone who has helped me get here, especially my teachers Silvana Sosto and Paty Ivison, and my bandmates in the projects where I've had the chance to blend the voice of my bellows with the voice of my throat, like Musicoculturistas, and those projects with which we sail the mighty tributaries of Argentine music: Reina Milonga and La Peña Xalapeña.

wishlist

• I'm currently bringing my passion for sound experimentation back into my life: I fitted my accordion with a Harmonik AC 501-PLUS microphone system, which lets me run it through an effects chain on an HX Stomp, as if it were a Jeskola Buzz machine.
• For over a year now I've been planning a concert with my solo piano and piano-and-voice repertoire, including a very old composition that's deeply symbolic for me, called “Alegre melancolía” (Joyful Melancholy), which I relearned to play 30 years after writing its first version.
• I have lots of old and recent compositions I want to keep rescuing, scores to write, music to record, ensembles to put together.
• I'd love to get back into the habit of writing regularly, and to dare once again to write more song lyrics. I've become too guarded about “saying things”, taking refuge in the comfort of silence.
• Maybe I'll start recording more videos for social media, or maybe not. Maybe I'll write a blog, or maybe not. Maybe I'll move to Buenos Aires for a while. Maybe I'll make microtonal music someday. Maybe I'll go on a Vipassana retreat at some point. Maybe I'll climb the Pico de Orizaba. I'd like to keep chickens. Someday I plan to make mole from scratch.