Photo by Arturo Mejía
CONCEPCIÓN HUERTA
Booking: elisa(@)folkwisdom.net
Territories: Worldwide
“Huerta’s sonic palette is deep and elemental, with synth drones reverberating in spacious darkness. Tones build and reform over geological swathes of time, whilst glassy deposits catch chinks of celestial light” – A CLOSER LISTEN
“The music produced by Huerta reveals a hazy landscape of intuitive noises, or perhaps this is what connecting with the Earth tastes like. A touch of the Sacred?”– ANXIOUS MAGAZINE
“Inspired by classic dark ambient gear and extreme noise, Huerta tightens her focus on ‘The Earth Has Memory’, sculpting her hypogean resonances and blasts of static into dense, cinematic chapters” – BOOMKAT
Concepción Huerta is a multidisciplinary artist with a strong background in audiovisual media and a deep focus on the sound spectrum. Her work is developed in different practices such as: sound design, installations, spatialized concerts, speculative narratives and immersive experiences. Her approach to sound begins by reflecting on the relationship between silence-noise, political space, and the sound agent as a means of enunciation. She also investigates resonance, acoustic space and the physical and psychological impact of sound in relation to the listener.
Her sound exploration unfolds through recordings of everyday objects (foleys) and instruments such as synthesizers that, when played and manipulated with tape recorders and processed tapes, create atmospheres based on elements of ambient and noise. She creates sound narratives that, rather than fitting into a specific musical genre, lean more toward the construction of imagined stories.
Her approach to sound also incorporates the study of synthesis, electricity, voltage, formats, and materiality. She explores sound at its most elemental level, investigating how it can be translated by creating technological bridges between analogue and digital processes.
She collaborates with several artists such as Daniela Huerta, Hara Alonso, Aimeé Theriot, among others, and is member of the experimental ensemble Amor Muere, with Gibrana Cervantes, Camille Mandoki and Mabe Fratti, with whom she has also collaborated on several publications.
She developed several projects such as ‘TRAVELERS’, ‘The Earth Has Memory’, ‘GRIETAS’, with sound artists Lucia Hinojosa and Vania Fortuna, and “The sacredness of all dimensions of life”, a project of speculative and immersive narratives created with transmedia artist Anahy Cabrera.
Currently she is working on narrative projects with light such as “El Sol de los Muertos“ and ‘Until life finds us” and on the sound design for the project ’re-c (o) unting’ with the artists Pamela Varela and Ella Hebendanz.
Concepcion Huerta is available for solo sets, collaborations, special projects, and with Daniela Huerta as Huerta Ensamble.