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Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

Increments

Time-lapse video of Increments, as presented in Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, on Sunday, 3. April, 2016, accompanied by an excerpt from the audio generated by the piece. (Visible in the background are sculptural works by David Augusto Rios Alomia and Takahiro Ueda.)

Increments is a durational installation in which two participants record and play back sound on two drums. Over the course of several hours, in a series of repeating actions, the performers switch between adding sound and listening, alternately active and contemplative. Over time, layered recordings are formed of both the drums and their acoustic reflections in the room.

The actions taken remain minimal and deliberate, the space carefully arranged. But the sounds slowly increase in volume and intensity, accreting gradually over hours into rhythmic fragments, architectural acoustic traces, and feedback tones. The piece invites viewers and listeners to experience this transition, and to immerse themselves in enveloping sound and repeating motion. The piece develops slowly, and observers are invited to leave and return as often as desired over the course of the five hours that it runs.

Presentations

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Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments at Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, 02.04.2016. Photo: Arnar Bergmann Sigurbjörnsson.
Increments at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, 13.04.2017
Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments (photo and audio documentation), installed at Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, after presentation of the piece in April 2016 (Photo: Arnar Bergmann Sigurbjörnsson)
Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments at Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, 02.04.2016. Photo: Arnar Bergmann Sigurbjörnsson.
Increments at Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, 13.04.2017
Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments at Serralves Museum, Porto, 19.09.2015 (Photo: Filipe Braga)
Increments (photo and audio documentation), installed at Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, after presentation of the piece in April 2016 (Photo: Arnar Bergmann Sigurbjörnsson)
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Past news and updates about Increments:

February 15, 2017
Increments at Museu do Chiado · We will be presenting the installation Increments at Museu do Chiado (MNAC), Lisbon, on April 11./12., 2017, as part... | More »
November 18, 2014
Interview in The Berlin Agenda · For The Berlin Agenda, we were interviewed about Increments by Fridey Mickel. Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty create... | More »