Concepción Huerta
Concepción Huerta is a Mexican sound artist, electroacoustic composer and artistic researcher whose practice explores sound as a medium capable of recording, preserving and transforming memory. Working with magnetic tape, analogue synthesis, field recordings, electromagnetic media and installation, she investigates the relationships between vibration, materiality, geology and listening. Her work brings together electroacoustic composition and research into the physical properties of sound, with particular attention to the ways in which sonic processes interact with matter and the traces of time embedded within it.
Central to her practice is an understanding of resonance as a physical, political and poetic phenomenon. Huerta approaches matter as an archive in which histories of time, territory and memory remain inscribed. Rather than treating sound solely as an event unfolding in time, her research considers its capacity to reveal, preserve and transform these inscriptions. Listening becomes a means of engaging with material histories, while vibration offers a way of exploring relationships between physical processes and the environments in which they occur.
Her projects establish a dialogue between ancestral and contemporary technologies, bringing together experimental electromagnetic media, sound archives and spatial composition. Through the manipulation of magnetic tape, analogue sound processes and recorded materials, she develops immersive works that investigate how sound can carry and transform traces of memory. This approach places listening in relation to archaeology and the production of knowledge, connecting the material conditions of sound with broader questions of territory, history and perception.
Huerta’s work has been presented at festivals, museums and institutions across the Americas, Europe and Asia, including CTM Festival, Rewire, Le Guess Who?, Gaudeamus, Mutek, EMS Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm, Volksbühne, Fylkingen, Café OTO, TBA21–Academy and the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. She has collaborated with Mabe Fratti, Camille Mandoki, Gibrana Cervantes, Hara Alonso, Daniela Huerta and the experimental ensemble Amor Muere.
Her recordings have been released by Umor Rex, Elevator Bath, SA Recordings, Superpang and Scrawl. Her work has also been featured in publications including The Wire, The Quietus, A Closer Listen, Magnet Magazine, Glissando, Anxious Magazine and Nexos, with critical attention focusing particularly on her approaches to magnetic tape, resonance and material memory.
