Only the recorded memory is not the same as the actual event. The very process of recording has its own influence over what is heard when the result is played back. Which is to say, just as the human body—our apparatus for recording and sharing memories—influences the information which it receives, stores and communicates, so too does the equipment performing the sonic equivalent. “Multitrack machines function here as extensions of the body and time,” as Huerta continues. “They are not neutral tools, but surfaces of friction where the signal wears away, duplicates itself, deviates.” Quite literally no queda nada, todo resuena. Nothing remains, everything resounds.

Listen to the album’s b-side, ‘Todo Resuena’, which evokes a sense of fractured, haunted physicality, below:

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