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The Gravity of Home
On the edge of leaving for tour, a drive toward an old hometown turns into a reckoning with family, loss and the strange gravity of going home.
Open Build NoteMichael J. Carrasquillo / Drummer · Recording Artist · Producer
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PIG TOUR · DRUMS · STUDIO · ROAD NOTES · STAGE EXPERIMENTS
Follow the work behind the work: PIG tour preparation, drums and electronics, recording sessions, stage experiments, road documentation and the systems that survive long enough to become part of the next version.
Current chapter: PIG — Hurt People Tour 2026
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Status: Pre-Tour Build
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PRE-TOUR
Rehearsal, stage identity, fan-archive pieces and the touring drum system are moving from experiments into road-ready versions.
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Right Now.
The main stories, experiments and systems currently moving from idea to working reality.
Stage / In Progress
Stencils Made by Real Hands!
In a world full of online sites and vendors that can make stencils for you…as a gen xer I’m bullheaded and still say, “fuck…
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Locked Down!
There’s nothing like shoving Facebook Marketplace “jail cage” purchases into your friend’s car…effectively turning the passenger seat into Rikers Island! We took a slew…
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Recent Movement.
New road reports, drum and gear decisions, studio work, stage experiments and things learned while they are still being built.
PIG Traffic Control
These are my collected plain street cones. We will need them for the tour because when the RV/bus is parked outside a venue, they’ll go along the street…
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The Gravity of Home
On the edge of leaving for tour, a drive toward an old hometown turns into a reckoning with family, loss and the strange gravity of going home.
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Height Issues
I mean look at me in the middle compared to the rest of the boys. I’m waist high! Hopefully a drum riser will solve the problem of staring…
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Now / Next / Done.
A quick snapshot of what is moving, what is coming and what has already become operational.
● Now
PIG rehearsal + drum prepGetting the touring rig road-ready and repeatable.
Stage clothingTesting movement, silhouette, hardware and reflective detail.
Pre-tour documentationBuilding a capture workflow that can survive actual touring.
↗ Next
Road field notesPhotos, short entries, drum-cam fragments and city artifacts.
Touring gear field testsWhat works nightly, what fails and what gets replaced.
New recording releasesNew studio work moving into the public release cycle.
✓ Recently Built
PIG tour dates hubCurrent dates and ticket routes are live.
Music + projects hubCredits, releases and current recording work have a permanent home.
Drums + gear hubThe working drum setup now has its own reference page.
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Road / Studio / Gear / Archive.
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01 / ROAD
The Road
PIG shows, cities, tour field notes and road experiments.
Follow the road 02 / STUDIOThe Studio
Recording, songwriting, production work and releases.
Explore the music 03 / GEARThe Kit
Drums, electronics, modifications and practical touring choices.
Open drums + gear 04 / ARCHIVEThe Archive
Fan relics, photographs, objects and evidence from the road.
Enter the archiveWhy Follow The Build
The finished thing is only half the story.
The build is the other half:
rehearsal, failure, revision, road damage, strange ideas,
better systems and whatever survives into the next version.
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Follow the PIG tour, new recording work, touring drum experiments, the fan archive and deeper behind-the-scenes material.