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Resonant Matter: Sound creation, materiality, and creative processes w/ Concepción Huerta
Event by: Synth Library Prague
Concerts, Talks & discussions
About event
The day before her concert at Punctum-Krásovka, Mexican audiovisual artist Concepción Huerta visits the Synth Library and talks about her creative process, tools and ideas for her musical projects. He will share his thoughts on ways of listening and his approach to sound creation, live mixing and recording with a four-track limit. Her latest album El Sol de los Muertos is a reflection of colonialism and the extractivism of natural resources. It is based on the procedures of drone and concrete music and is inspired by the fury of the lava flows of Central and South America as well as the work of the writer Eduardo Galeano, a prominent critic of the destructive effects of capitalism.
The lecture will be in English and is suitable for anyone interested in music and sound. Log in on the Synth Library website (link is below).
Join us for a talk with audiovisual artist Concepción Huerta day before her concert at Punctum-Krásovka. She will share the thoughts behind her projects as well as about listening. You will have a chance to learn more about her creative process, different instruments, live mixing as well as sound creation and recording using a 4-track setup. Her recent album El Sol de los Muertos explores techniques of drone music and musique concrète. It is a reflection of colonialism and extractivism inspired by the raging lava veins of Central and South America and tribute to the literary work of Eduardo Galeano.
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, video installations, spatialized concerts, speculative narratives and immersive experiences. His 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 is through recordings of everyday objects (foleys) and instruments such as synthesizers, which when played and manipulated with tape recorders and processed tapes, create atmospheres based on elements of ambient and noise. She creates sound narratives, which rather than being inserted into a specific musical genre, are closer to the construction of an imagined story. Incorporating the study of synthesis, electricity, voltage, formats and materiality as part of their approach to sound. Exploring it from the most elemental level and how it can be translated by creating technological bridges between analogue and digital processes. Concepcion Huerta is also a member of the experimental ensemble Amor Muere.
In 2025 she released "El Sol de los Muertos" deeply rooted in drone, musique concrète, and hauntingly visceral textures. The sonic vision of the album evokes an image of open veins, not human veins, but those of the earth itself, the open veins of Latin America. These nerves are, in truth, rivers of lava; fury transmuted into fire coursing beneath the land until it erupts. The album is, in a way, a reflection on dispossession, resource extraction, and colonization. But beyond being a historical commentary—one that some might relegate to a forgotten past—it is also a reminder of the present, of how these practices persist in contemporary, postmodern guises. The album serves as both a tribute to the literary work of Eduardo Galeano, one of the most influential voices of Latin American leftist thought, and a howl from the Lacandon jungle in Mexico, resonating with the Zapatista struggle, the resistance of the Guaraní people in Paraguay and Argentina, and the voices of Indigenous communities across Latin America.
https://concepcionhuerta.bandcamp.com
⇨ WHEN: Thursday 14th of May 18:30 - 20:00
⇨ WHERE: Synth Library Prague
GPS 50.062727159303336, 14.437951978446856
⇨ TO BOOK YOUR SPOT: https://synthlibrary.cz/event_registrace.php?date=2026-05-14&time=18%3A30%3A00
⇨ DONATION: recommended 150 - 300 CZK
SUITABLE: for anyone interested in sound and music
⇨ ANY QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS at [email protected]
Join us for the concert of Concepción Huerta on the 15th of May at Punctum
https://www.facebook.com/events/1295175172679278
SYNTH LIBRARY PRAGUE is a space for sharing, creating, discussing, experimenting, learning and unlearning together not only in the field of electronic music. Space full of instruments, books and more sources of sounds and inspiration run by artists and curators with the aim to rehearse together, support each other, collaborate and listen to each other with respect, to reflect context, rebuild modular structures and create welcoming space in which we can test new instruments as well as new ideas and ways of living and organizing. The Synth Library stands thanks to volunteers and donations. Your workshop donations are split between the facilitators of the workshop and the running costs of the library.
MEMBERSHIP
If you wish to become a member and get access to all the instruments and books from the Synth Library collection together with other members three times a week, please register.
https://synthlibrary.cz/registrace.php
TRIGGER CHANGE
We encourage everyone to think about the systems of power and stereotypes not only in the field of music and music technology but in the learning process in general, to be considerate and respectful and join us in creating a welcoming space for everyone.
The lecture will be in English and is suitable for anyone interested in music and sound. Log in on the Synth Library website (link is below).
Join us for a talk with audiovisual artist Concepción Huerta day before her concert at Punctum-Krásovka. She will share the thoughts behind her projects as well as about listening. You will have a chance to learn more about her creative process, different instruments, live mixing as well as sound creation and recording using a 4-track setup. Her recent album El Sol de los Muertos explores techniques of drone music and musique concrète. It is a reflection of colonialism and extractivism inspired by the raging lava veins of Central and South America and tribute to the literary work of Eduardo Galeano.
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, video installations, spatialized concerts, speculative narratives and immersive experiences. His 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 is through recordings of everyday objects (foleys) and instruments such as synthesizers, which when played and manipulated with tape recorders and processed tapes, create atmospheres based on elements of ambient and noise. She creates sound narratives, which rather than being inserted into a specific musical genre, are closer to the construction of an imagined story. Incorporating the study of synthesis, electricity, voltage, formats and materiality as part of their approach to sound. Exploring it from the most elemental level and how it can be translated by creating technological bridges between analogue and digital processes. Concepcion Huerta is also a member of the experimental ensemble Amor Muere.
In 2025 she released "El Sol de los Muertos" deeply rooted in drone, musique concrète, and hauntingly visceral textures. The sonic vision of the album evokes an image of open veins, not human veins, but those of the earth itself, the open veins of Latin America. These nerves are, in truth, rivers of lava; fury transmuted into fire coursing beneath the land until it erupts. The album is, in a way, a reflection on dispossession, resource extraction, and colonization. But beyond being a historical commentary—one that some might relegate to a forgotten past—it is also a reminder of the present, of how these practices persist in contemporary, postmodern guises. The album serves as both a tribute to the literary work of Eduardo Galeano, one of the most influential voices of Latin American leftist thought, and a howl from the Lacandon jungle in Mexico, resonating with the Zapatista struggle, the resistance of the Guaraní people in Paraguay and Argentina, and the voices of Indigenous communities across Latin America.
https://concepcionhuerta.bandcamp.com
⇨ WHEN: Thursday 14th of May 18:30 - 20:00
⇨ WHERE: Synth Library Prague
GPS 50.062727159303336, 14.437951978446856
⇨ TO BOOK YOUR SPOT: https://synthlibrary.cz/event_registrace.php?date=2026-05-14&time=18%3A30%3A00
⇨ DONATION: recommended 150 - 300 CZK
SUITABLE: for anyone interested in sound and music
⇨ ANY QUESTIONS OR SUGGESTIONS at [email protected]
Join us for the concert of Concepción Huerta on the 15th of May at Punctum
https://www.facebook.com/events/1295175172679278
SYNTH LIBRARY PRAGUE is a space for sharing, creating, discussing, experimenting, learning and unlearning together not only in the field of electronic music. Space full of instruments, books and more sources of sounds and inspiration run by artists and curators with the aim to rehearse together, support each other, collaborate and listen to each other with respect, to reflect context, rebuild modular structures and create welcoming space in which we can test new instruments as well as new ideas and ways of living and organizing. The Synth Library stands thanks to volunteers and donations. Your workshop donations are split between the facilitators of the workshop and the running costs of the library.
MEMBERSHIP
If you wish to become a member and get access to all the instruments and books from the Synth Library collection together with other members three times a week, please register.
https://synthlibrary.cz/registrace.php
TRIGGER CHANGE
We encourage everyone to think about the systems of power and stereotypes not only in the field of music and music technology but in the learning process in general, to be considerate and respectful and join us in creating a welcoming space for everyone.