Durational installation
Increments
Kovács / O’Doherty

APRIL 12–13 2017
MNAC — MUSEU NACIONAL DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA



In the durational installation ‘Increments’,  Kóvacs / O’Doherty perform a series of repeated actions on two drums over the course of several hours. Recordings of every new action are made simultaneously with the playback of previous ones, allowing a sedimentation process that results in a combination of sounds of growing density. Older layers are evidently the ones more deeply transformed by the acoustics of the space as they are subjected to a higher number of playback operations. The obvious reference is Alvin Lucier and his renowned piece “I am sitting in a room”.

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