Some works unfold over extended periods, while others begin as brief improvisations or experiments.


Selected works include Time Drift, Sound Vigilance, and Uma Hora Na Quinta Dimensão.

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SELECTED WORKS

TIME DRIFT
2025Twenty-one pieces recorded and released weekly between August and December 2025, later gathered into album form.
Spontaneous recordings made quickly, without polishing them into something more controlled.


SOUND VIGILANCE
2024 - OngoingA listening practice shaped by place and sustained attention.
An exploration of environment, restraint and minimal intervention.


GLOBAL LIVE MED
2022Live ambient performance during Global Live Med, Athens.
Presented as an atmosphere of connection and reflection within a Mediterranean music and advocacy event.


UMA HORA NA QUINTA DIMENSÃO
2020Debut full-length album: long-form ambient composition as journey.
Spatial listening, slow transformation, dimensional drift.


MOON SESSION
2020Live performance at Syntopia, Rethymno, Greece.
Improvised ambient performance in dialogue with place and night.


HEARTSCAPE
2020A continuous one-hour soundscape unfolding across ten phases.
First presented live 2020-07 (House of Yoga, Luxembourg).

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METHOD

Sound is approached as space. Not only something to hear, but something to move within.Improvisation often creates the initial material. I listen to what is happening and intervene without deciding the complete form in advance.The work favors duration. Long-form structures create the conditions for subtle changes to emerge and be perceived.Listening is central. Form appears through shifts in attention, through small transitions that open new states within the same material.Notes, recordings and diagrams sometimes help me return to what occurred during the process.The focus remains on restraint, minimal intervention and the small changes that alter how a piece is perceived.

ORIGIN

The work began in song. Born in Luxembourg with Portuguese roots, David Mourato grew up between languages, places and ways of seeing, with music becoming an early way of holding what could not easily be said elsewhere. Melody, voice and emotional directness were there from the beginning. For years, the song was the natural container: something intimate enough to carry longing, memory, romance and distance. That foundation never disappeared. It remains somewhere inside the work, even when the music no longer resembles a song at all.DRIFTGradually, the container opened. Mourato became less interested in deciding too quickly what a piece should become, and more interested in staying close to the moment in which sound first appears. Improvisation entered more deeply. Repetition became a way of listening rather than simply structuring. Electronics allowed sounds to stretch, fold, accumulate and dissolve. Some pieces became long and spacious; others remained brief, melodic or immediate. There was never a clean departure from one form into another, only an expanding field in which composition, accident, intuition and attention could coexist.THE ISLANDCrete later became an important coordinate in that movement. Living there created distance from the rhythm of cities and from the need to constantly place the work inside a scene, a genre or an expectation. The island is not necessarily the subject of the music, but it has become part of the conditions from which much of it emerges: time, isolation, weather, landscape, silence, repetition, and the particular intimacy of working from a place far enough away to hear differently. What had already begun to open was given more room to do so.TRANSMISSIONSOver time, different forms began to gather around that way of working. They do not belong to a single format or duration. Some are carefully shaped, others preserve the instability of a first take. Some begin with an existing piece or melody, others with almost nothing. Together they form less a catalogue than a constellation — separate transmissions coming from the same territory, each carrying a slightly different version of the signal.SIGNALThe thread running through the work is difficult to reduce to a genre. There is atmosphere, but also melody. Abstraction, but also romance. Silence alongside emotional immediacy. A piece may drift for an extended period or arrive in a few minutes and remain exactly as it first appeared. Mourato moves between composition and improvisation, structure and openness, recorded material and live presence without treating those things as opposites. What matters is not whether a work is ambient, experimental, melodic or long-form, but whether it retains something alive from the moment that brought it into existence.RETURNPerhaps that is why the song still remains somewhere underneath everything. Not as a form that was abandoned, but as an original instinct: the desire to catch something before it disappears. The language around it has widened, the durations have changed, and the spaces in which the work can exist have multiplied, but the impulse is recognisable. A sound appears. It is followed for a while. Sometimes it becomes a landscape, sometimes a transmission, sometimes a song again. The form changes. The listening continues.

CONTACT

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UPDATES

Occasional notes on releases, listening sessions, and site-responsive work.|TWENTY SIX DEGREES
Streaming, 11th of September 2026Loving a moment while it is still happening, feeling the warmth of it, the tenderness, the quiet joy, and at the same time already sensing that it will pass. That strange little sadness of wanting to stay exactly where you are, knowing the moment is already becoming a memory.|TIME DRIFT 999
Japan, late 2026 - In formation.Time Drift 999 is a quiet, atmospheric live extension of long-form sound work Time Drift.Build around a selection of existing pieces, fragments, and recorded materials, the project is compact, adaptable, and shaped in conversation with the spaces, artists, and hosts it encounters in Japan.

EXPERIMENTS

This is an open field for works that move between sound, image, code and interface.|ECHOMALOBrowser-based sound instrument — 2026–ongoingECHOMALO is a browser-based synthesizer and experimental interface for shaping echoes, pulse intervals, held notes, organic arpeggiated patterns and visual movement.It began as the idea for a physical object through which the artist could manipulate echo using a personal set of controls. The browser version now functions as both an instrument and a prototype, developing toward live performance through sound, MIDI control and a projected visual interface.


OMENEvolving digital project — 2023–ongoingOMEN is an evolving project concerned with values, attention and personal orientation.It began as an online community for men, structured around conversations about vulnerability, authenticity and shared experience. A later phase explored how fragments of perception could be noticed, recorded and mapped through a cosmogram.Its current form is a browser-based values instrument. Through words, associations and choices, it helps people identify and order their values, while considering the qualities they seek in themselves and in others. Each stage tests how a digital interface can create space for reflection without prescribing a fixed answer.


THE RETURNInteractive system, live sound and creative direction — Portugal, 2026THE RETURN was a multidisciplinary exhibition and gathering held in Aljezur, Portugal. For the event, David developed an interactive system exploring beehive consciousness and presented a series of Sound Vigilance performances.Together with Linda Pappa, he also shaped the event’s creative direction and visual language, connecting its installations, performances and shared spaces through a coherent identity.


CATHARSISExperimental film and earth forms — 2024CATHARSIS is an experimental film built around fifty-one earth forms shaped to resemble excrement. Through arrangement, immersion, mud, water and physical action, the work dissolves the distinction between the ceremonial and the abject. It does not elevate the ordinary into sacredness. It begins from the premise that nothing exists outside it.


RAW WAVESExperimental video and sound series — 2021–2026RAW WAVES is a series of short audiovisual improvisations recorded in different places using different instruments and sounds. Beginning with Pink Oleander on 28 May 2021, each episode emerged from a specific setting, allowing sound, image and circumstance to shape the work.

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