Mittwoch, 01 Januar, 2025 - 00:01

Minute/Year

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

Minute/Year is an automated, process-based, durational work, in which sound is played, recorded, and layered, in a resonant space, for one minute each day. This process has been ongoing, daily, since 2016. For the whole of 2025, the work is installed in ausland.

Each day’s one-minute-long recording is posted online, as audio with an accompanying spectrogram image and video. Through this daily process, the work accumulates an acoustic index of sounds. These fragments and traces of activities, large and small, become material for a layered archive, which develops, re-forms, and mutates over time. Each day’s recording is also printed as a receipt. Anyone who might be present in the space is welcome to take this receipt with them, as an ephemeral token of a recorded moment of time.

Minute/Year began on January 1., 2016. It has run for one minute every day, ever since. It has no set ending date.

Here is a Link to an introduction video to the installation: Minute/Year