RELATED PROJECT
Navalha 2
A performance instrument built for cutting, recombining and transforming sound sources. Its JUCE/C++ migration and the Pure Data reference remain separate projects.
Navalha 2 site →INSTRUMENTS · SOUND · RESEARCH
Instruments, tools and research around sound.
RASGO is an independent project for creating musical instruments, sound software, artistic research and future hardware.
THE PROJECT
A family of instruments, projects and research.
RASGO is an independent artistic and technical field for creating instruments, music software, sound research and future hardware. It connects musical practice, software design, sound design and technical research.
Each project keeps its own history, authorship, license and identity, while sharing an interest in gesture, material, memory and transformation.
INSTRUMENTS
What you play and perform with
PRECURSOR PROJECT · AUTHORIAL WORK
Antitotem
An authorial instrument and an important conceptual precursor to later RASGO research. Today it is also a standalone JUCE/C++ sound object, downloadable and multiplatform.
Antitotem site →
INSTRUMENT · MODULAR SYNTHESIZER
Rasgo Modular
A modular synthesizer with 58 modules that opens with a patch already built and sounding. You play from there: rewire it by hand, adjust it, or take it apart and start from scratch. The cables play too: they can conduct only some of the time, combine two signals, or break and leave a fading trace.
Rasgo Modular site →RESEARCH
Musicality is the measure.
Artistic: gesture, form, improvisation, noise, memory and the transformation of recorded material.
Technical: real-time audio, deterministic processes, efficient algorithms, signal analysis and future embedded hardware.
Teaching: tools and documentation that make musical decisions visible and invite listening rather than aimless automation.
SUPPORT THE WORK
Help keep the instruments independent.
This work is developed independently by an artist-researcher and paid for out of pocket, with no outside funding so far. Support and contributions will go to development, testing, documentation, infrastructure and preservation.
Support and contribution campaign · coming soon
CREDITS
About the author
RASGO was created by Lúcio Araújo, an independent artist-researcher working across music, sound, software and experimental instruments. Concept, direction, DSP, interfaces and the editorial project are his own work.
The practice moves between composition, listening, programming, technical investigation, documentation and building instruments that make musical decisions visible.
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