ocsalev is the solo project of composer and visual artist Rodrigo RamĂrez Velasco (Mexico City, 1988), based in Mexico. Previously performing under the names R Velasco and yecto, the project consolidated as ocsalev in 2024, exploring the synesthetic dialogue between sound and image through generative systems, real-time improvisation, and contemplative practice.
Rooted in live coding, ocsalev moves fluidly between analog hardware, Ableton Live, SuperCollider, and nemontemi—Rodrigo's own custom GLSL shader library, named after the five nameless days of the Mexica calendar—treating synthesis and shader as a single gesture, sound and image generated in the same breath. The harmonic language draws from ambient and psychedelic jazz, cinematic library music, and the wider vocabulary of electronic and experimental traditions, landing somewhere between soundtrack and séance.
The work has been presented across Brazil, Canada, the UK, Spain, and Mexico, including performances at MUTEK Montreal and collaborations with projects like Metaritmos and Sinapsis.
As ocsalev, Rodrigo explores listening as a form of thought and technology as a vessel for accessing interior landscapes—creating conditions to perceive what vibrates, repeats, transforms, and escapes perception.
