Clara Brea is an electronic musician and sound artist from Madrid whose practice spans field recording, modular synthesis, electroacoustic composition, and sound design. Her work is rooted in a sustained attention to acoustic environments — urban, natural, industrial — as sites of ecological and social meaning, and in the conviction that listening itself is a political act.

Her early recordings took shape through a series of formative residencies: in 2019 she studied with Chris Watson at CAMP (France), attended the Gutenberg Sound Art Academy (Germany), worked as technical assistant to María Chávez at EMPAC (Troy, New York), and created the radio piece 2019 Sound Journal at Wavefarm (Acra, New York). That same year she composed and premiered Wetland — a site-specific audiovisual performance created in collaboration with Elena Brea during the Eufonic Lo Pati residency (Catalonia), built from field recordings of the Ebro Delta as a meditation on one of the most ecologically threatened regions of the Iberian Peninsula. Wetland has since been released both as an AV piece and as an album.

Subsequent releases have appeared through Astral Industries, Chi Factory Recordings and her own Bandcamp. In 2022, The Wetland Remixes — a collaboration with Dutch producer Son of Chi (Hanyo van Oosterom) — was released as a double LP on Astral Industries. In January 2026, she released Growing Forests in the City (Chi Factory Recordings), an extended collaborative project with Menhir (Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián), produced and remixed by Son of Chi from live recordings made between 2023 and 2025.

Her projects Madrid Concrete and Vanishing Madrid — a sound collage and a sound map both composed during a residency at Matadero’s Centro de Residencias Artísticas (selected through the Women in Electronic Music call, 2021) — premiered at L.E.V. Matadero Festival in September 2022 and have since been presented at venues including CIVICAN (Pamplona, 2024) and online.

Alongside her own practice, Brea works as a composer and sound designer for film and audiovisual projects. Her most recent work in this area comprises the composition of the original soundtrack for Este Cuerpo Mío (2025), a documentary co-directed by Afioco Gnecco and Carolina Yuste that had its world premiere at the 70th SEMINCI (Valladolid, October 2025). She was also responsible for the sound postproduction of La Carn and the location sound recording, postproduction and sound design on El Jable (2024), a short documentary by Bruno Atkinson commissioned by Ecologistas en Acción de Lanzarote, which premiered at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote.

Brea is also responsible for the music and sound environments for the theatre company La Extraña Compañía. She has performed at Convergence Festival, Art Basel Miami, Eufonic Festival, L.E.V. Festival, and Campos de Marte (Madrid, 2025), among others. In April 2025, she performed a live sound intervention within the public programme of Tarek Atoui’s At-Tāriq exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with TBA21 and MondoSonoro.