Friday, 19 September, 2025 - 19:30
Minute/Year: Archival Accumulations
Doors: 19:30 · Start: 20:00
Throughout 2025, from January 1st to December 31st, there is a durational installation present in ausland, called Minute/Year. This installation, by the artist duo Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty, automatically records the sound occurring in the main concert space of ausland, for one minute exactly, every day at 20:25. Simultaneously, it plays back the previous day’s recording, thus creating a layered audio portrait of the space over time, and creating and recording emergent room tones and spatial drones as it goes. This work has been ongoing in annually-altering locations since 2016.
On the evening of September 19th, there will be an event, featuring Marta Zapparoli, KvT, and DuChamp, which will use the archive created by the daily recordings captured by Minute/Year as material for three live concert sets. The evening will begin with a short introduction by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty about Minute/Year. There will then be a one-minute-long intervention-performance, at 20:25 exactly, during the time when Minute/Year is active. This will be followed by an evening-length concert bill of three sets, by DuChamp, KvT, and Marta Zapparoli.
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Marta Zapparoli
Marta Zapparoli is an Italian sound artist, radio artist, performer, and independent researcher based in Berlin. Active in sound art since 2003, her recent work explores the intersection of the visible and invisible aspects of physics, seeking to activate both poetic and conceptual dimensions. She captures unique, self-made recordings of the “energetic environment” around us, including electromagnetic radiation from outer space and the atmosphere (such as natural radio phenomena, VLF, astronomical radio sources like stars, the Sun, and the Northern Lights) as well as from the technological world (e.g., electro-smog, wireless communications, and radio waves). In her artistic practice, she explores themes such as "Technological Nature"—the imitation of nature by technology in the anthropogenic age—and the transformation of nature affected by the technological world. Her primary instruments include a variety of sculptural antennas (some of which are self-made), radio receivers, detectors, sensors, tape machines, and tape recorders.
https://martazapparoli.klingt.<wbr>org
https://martazapparoli.<wbr>bandcamp.com
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KvT
KvT are a trio that shape ephemeral soundscapes from the overlapping churn of individually-simple elements. They layer voice, resonance, repetition, movement, and memory — combining iterated fragments of voice, trumpet, bass, and percussion.
This stripped-down palette allows for a singular focus on the worlds of sound that can be layered and stitched together from voices, fragments, loops, layered resonance, and emergent drone — all undertaken with hand-carried amplifiers, allowing for a spatialised, context-aware live presentation that never repeats in the same way.
https://kvt.red
https://kvtred.bandcamp.com
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DuChamp
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone. Her debut album “NAR” was released in 2013 through the italian cult label Boring Machines. In 2015 the split “Sculpture” with French sound artist Felicia Atkinson was released through Idiosyncratics. In 2016 and 2017 Full Body Massage records released that tapes “Nectere” and the following year “A Blazing World”. Her new album “The Wild Joy” was released in 2025 by Torto Editions, Ramble Records, and Atena Records.
https://duchampdrone.tumblr.<wbr>com
https://duchampdronemusic.<wbr>bandcamp.com
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Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty have worked as a collaborative duo since 2011. Their work combines elements of durational and time-based art, minimalist movement, and electroacoustic music and sound. They are interested in processes, sounds, and movements that come close to imperceptibility, and the ways in which this material can be transformed through repetition, patterning, layering, and archiving.
https://kkto.net
https://kkto.bandcamp.com