tekhnē #2 - Concepción Huerta & Fe Sexta

Bi-monthly insights into the activities of the European project tekhnē, which started in 2023. The series showcases a selection of artists who share and discuss their work and listen to recorded material. By putting the focus on the user rather than the developer, this project aims to explore the emancipatory potential of technology in music and sound art. Technology as an art of craft, appropriating and transforming existing tools, to imagine multiple ways of creative misuse. tekhnē is a collaborative project, co-funded by the European Union.

In this episode, Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta share a wide range of music, recordings, and sounds that influenced them on their journey towards mapping relationships between personal and collective memory across regions of South America, which resulted in the commissioned work MAPS : Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico premiered this year at CTM Festival.

MAPS aimed to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s.