Wednesday 6 April 2022, 8pm
London based record label, SA Recordings, celebrate their 3rd birthday this year. To celebrate they've pulled together some friends of the label for a night of performances at OTO.
Longstanding figures in New York City experimental music scene - both noted for pushing electroacoustic music into highly individualised realms - Ben Vida and Lea Bertucci began collaborating during the Summer of 2021, while living on opposite sides of the same mountain outside of Woodstock, NY. This April, they deliver “Murmurations”, their first release as a duo, incorporating live tape manipulation, modular synthesis, sampling, and real-time instrumental and vocal improvisation, into a joyous tapestry of playful, boundary blurring sound.
Label founder, artist & writer Flora Yin Wong’s upcoming releases will be a second album on Modern Love, and via INA GRM following a residency for the Parisian institute's 48-channel diffusion system. Her debut album 'Holy Palm' was released on Modern Love and has featured on labels like PAN, Archaic Vaults, and Danse Noire and is currently working on remixes for Nyege Nyege Tapes and Animistic Beliefs. She has performed live at Atonal Berlin, Unsound and Semibreve Festivals, New York’s ISSUE Project Room, MACRO Roma, MUTEK in Peru, Buenos Aires, and Montreal, Volksbühne Theatre, SOTO Kyoto, The V&A Museum, Somerset House, The Jazz Cafe, and Cafe OTO, to clubs like Berghain, Printworks, Razzmatazz, WWWB Tokyo, and guested on shows for Rinse FM, NTS, Know Wave, The Lot Radio, and Boiler Room, with a trimestrial residency on LYL Radio.
Concepción Huerta is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist working across sound, visual media, installation and performance. Based between Amsterdam and Mexico City, her practice brings together field recording, synthesis, tape manipulation, spatial composition and audiovisual forms, treating sound as a physical, narrative and political material. Emerging from photography and moving image, Huerta has become a key voice in Mexico’s experimental sound circuit, with work that sits between ambient, noise, drone and musique concrète while remaining rooted in questions of memory, place, silence, violence and embodied listening.
Her recordings often unfold like unstable terrains: dense, tactile environments where foley, electronics, processed tape and acoustic resonance become carriers of emotional and historical pressure. Alongside her solo work, Huerta is also part of the Mexico City ensemble Amor Muere with Mabe Fratti, Camille Mandoki and Gibrana Cervantes, a project praised for its collective approach to freeform chamber improvisation, electronics and voice. Her recent 2025 solo album El Sol de los Muertos, released on Umor Rex, is one of her most forceful statements to date: a subharmonic, tape-scarred work that draws on volcanic imagery, the open veins of Latin America, colonial memory and the subterranean force of histories that refuse to stay buried.
