Luís Clara Gomes grew up in Viseu, in the interior of Portugal, far from the coast and from the country's main cultural centres. He has said that when culture was not on offer, he and his friends made it themselves, a habit that still shapes how he works.
He trained as an engineer: a degree in Computer and Telematics Engineering at the University of Aveiro (2005), where his final-year project was a prototype musical instrument controlled by the brain's electrical activity, then a master's in brain-computer interfaces between Aveiro and LMU Munich (2006). In Munich he went on to research in neuroscience at LMU's department of neurology (2006 to 2007) and in astronomy at the European Southern Observatory (2007 to 2012), while his first records came out.
Since then he has released the albums Flora (2012), Elsewhere (2015), Hypersex (2017) and Requiem for Empathy (2021), remixed Röyksopp and Robyn, Cut Copy and Two Door Cinema Club, co-founded the Lisbon label Discotexas, and formed the duo MXGPU with GPU Panic, whose debut album Sudden Light came out in 2025.
Alongside the records he scores films, installations and podcasts, and makes visual work with code, including music videos generated by a neural network trained on photographs of brutalist buildings.
Sources: Observador, profile (2024); Made in Situ, in conversation (2021); La.Ga.Sta., interview (2012); Resident Advisor, biography; Europavox, artist page