Live Visuals

Jonathan Castro

His work unfolds through processes of accumulation, degradation and translation, where recorded environments, visual fragments and tonal residues are treated as materials rather than representations. Looping structures emerge as unstable polyrhythmic systems, flickering between coherence and chance. Rather than asserting control, he explores the limits of hardware-based processes, allowing sequences to evolve, interfere and partially escape intention.

Mechanical patterns appear not as rigid or industrial, but as delicate frameworks through which something more fragile can surface. Pulses, offsets, and recursive timings become conduits where the incidental and the organic intertwine, suggesting that even within circuitry and repetition, unexpected formations may emerge.

In 2023 he released Radiance Loops on Confusion Unit, a collection of field recordings captured in post-industrial and abandoned areas between Amsterdam and Lima, developed in parallel with a collaborative clothing project with Edwin Europe. Castro Alejos was previously founder of the Lima-based band The Satellite, with whom he shared stages with Sonic Youth and Deafheaven. As a visual artist he has collaborated with labels and platforms such as PAN, AD93, Rewire Festival, Gang of Ducks, Dekmantel, FACT Magazine and Mannequin Records, and has toured internationally creating live visuals for Upsammy’s performances.