Concepción Huerta – No Queda Nada, Todo Resuena

Today, Mexico City and Berlin-based artist Concepción Huerta announces new album No Queda Nada, Todo Resuena, arriving July 3 via Signal Noise.

Consisting of two album-side long tracks, the announcement arrives with the release of the album’s complete B-side, the kinetic and whirring, “Todo Resuena.”

The track embodies Huerta’s ongoing exploration of magnetic tape as both instrument and medium. “Electricity printed onto magnetic tape,” she says. “It’s like photographic memory: materiality, light, and frequencies impregnated in the material. Memory as a signal that occurred in time.” For more than a decade, the Guanajuato-born photographer and sound artist has explored the relationship between the physical and the auditory through magnetic tape experiments and collaborations that have placed her alongside Estrelle del Sol (of Mint Field), Jiyoung Wi, Daniela Huerta, Eve Matin, and in multiple projects with renowned cellist Mabe Fratti.

No Queda Nada, Todo Resuena takes its title from a fragment in British composer Daphne Oram’s book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics. Centered on the Buchla 200 system, magnetic tape, and 4-track cassette processes, the album extends Oram’s idea that recorded sound can function as a form of written memory. Each pass alters information, while tape bounces reveal shifting, unstable pathways. “I really like everything she has done in her practice with tape and electricity, so it’s a gesture of admiration for her work and her legacy,” Concepción Huerta shares.

Concepción Huerta’s first full-length for Signal Noise emerged from a period in which she lived in The Hague and studied sonology. During a residency at Elektronmusicstudion in Stockholm, she was granted access to a room of coveted antique gear. She altered patches with voltage and feedback, impacting a smeared landscape. “Multitrack machines function here as extensions of the body and time,” she explains. “They are not neutral tools, but surfaces of friction where the signal wears away, duplicates itself, deviates.” Analog techniques produced ghosts and drifts, causing galactic variations from oscillation.

No Queda Nada, Todo Resuena functions less as a fixed object than as an active space of memory, a living signal that transforms with time. The result is something spectral: a presence that no longer belongs entirely to the body that generated it or the machine that stores it, but vibrates somewhere in between.

Concepción Huerta is currently on a European tour, with recent stops in Italy, Switzerland, and Germany. The run continues tonight in Prague, with upcoming dates in Berlin, Porto, and Lisbon, before concluding with a London performance alongside Mexico-born, New York-based electronic producer and DJ Debit at Cafe OTO on May 23.

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