"At a certain point, jazz became “my home,” and even though that is where things begin for me most of the times – a certain arrangement of possibilities – I often arrive at unknown results, which must happen because I like to take risks, to mix, and I get influenced by things that I do not yet know. When I play alone, I prepare myself to follow and to transform whatever happens on stage, in a balance between what is internalised – jazz, improvisation, the music I made for dance and some cinema – and everything else," says the musician.

In addition to the loop station and guitar effects, with which he began this exploratory journey, Sérgio Pelágio has been including other machines in his setup. He resorts to a computer, pre-recorded sounds, various gadgets, and a drum machine. "I had long imagined a drum machine that plays random variations, and finally a young British inventor decided to build one," he asserts.

Interested since always in nontraditional metrics, he has developed an organic and fun way to experiment with and practice them. This is how much of the music he makes has now begun to take shape, unfolding in conjunction with imaginary narrations of texts by Edward Snowden, poems by Emily Dickinson, or short stories by Clarice Lispector.