Clara Brea is a musician and sound artist based in Asturias, Spain, 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 can be a political act.

After early years playing in bands and DJing, her solo practice 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 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 Eufònic / 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), recorded live during her 2021 Matadero residency and produced and remixed by Son of Chi between 2023 and 2025.

Her projects Madrid Concrete (a sound collage) and Vanishing Madrid (a sound map), both composed during a residency at Matadero Madrid’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 is the original soundtrack for Este Cuerpo Mío (2025), a documentary co-directed by Afioco Gnecco and Carolina Yuste, which had its world premiere at the 70th SEMINCI (Valladolid, October 2025). She was also responsible for sound postproduction on the short film La Carn, and for 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 of the theatre company La Extraña Compañía, and created the sound design, editing, and original soundtrack for Fiebre, a project by Olmo Cuña funded by Fundación Carasso, performed live at Infinito Delicias and Mecanismo (Gijón). She is currently working on further original soundtracks, as well as recording and producing Sara Muñiz’s forthcoming album.

She has performed at Convergence Festival, Art Basel Miami, Eufònic Festival, L.E.V. Festival, Fuera de Fase (Málaga), Microclima (Cádiz), and Campos de Marte Festival (Carabanchel, 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