Under a blanket of starlit darkness, the forest hums with life. The gentle pulse of insects, echoing frogs, and the occasional call of distant birds weave together in a primal symphony. In this lush, untouched world, each sound tells a story, merging into an immersive nocturnal melody that celebrates nature’s resilience and beauty

Night Chorus in the Heart of the Colombian Amazon, 2024

Rafael Diogo is an ambient composer and sound designer based in London, whose works move across experimental paths and natural investigations into everyday sounds.

I create soundscapes in a variety of moods and shapes but mainly I favour the sound of stories embedded into objects and places, a feeling of great immediacy, the phenomenological sense of place and time, the despair for that loss, a memory. 

The practice of travelling enabled me to embrace the boundless possibilities of perceiving the world from many distinct angles. 

My body of work maintains both an ecologic focus that emphasises nature's challenges and fragilities and a wide-eyed spirit of exploration, creating unforeseen liminal soundscapes that can reveal hidden information about a place or a moment that no longer exists.

Night Chorus in the Heart of the Colombian Amazon, 2024

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