
Years spent documenting the country’s experimental scene has given her eyes and ears a unique outlook-and-listen. Bringing voidic audio-visions to life using a variety of instruments ranging from bespoke effects pedals and analogue synthesisers to tape players and everyday objects, she weaves foley sounds through recorders, snippets of ambience processed through tapes to craft stories told in tenebrous ambience, drowned memories of faded experience given spectral flesh through careful emergence. Like the ghosts of stories they loom, oozing lambert aural effluences seeking a codex to cling to; Huerta’s gaze casts as wide as femicide and colonisation to the howl of the void itself.
 Among her many collaborations, standouts include the hair-raising Estática with Guatemalan cellist Mabe Fratti, and the languid, mutating evocations of Desciende with Camilo Ángeles. A masterclass in phantasmal sound design.
Concepción Huerta is performing as part of the CTM Radio Lab which is a project by Deutschlandfunk Kultur – Hörspiel / Klangkunst and CTM Festival in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, ORF musikprotokoll im steirischen herbst, and Ö1 Kunstradio. This year it takes place within the framework of the sound art initiative tekhnē, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.