KKTO album launch

KKTO · Woven All of Dream and Error · album launch event
Friday, 20th June, 2025 · 7:30pm
Soft Canyon
Voigtstrasse 36, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain
Eintritt Spende · Message @repatterning on Telegram for entry if the door is closed

Live sets from:

KKTO
Notorische Ruhestörung
DJ Modh Coinníollach

KKTO have a new album out, called Woven All of Dream and Error. This fourteen-track record is being released on Soft Noise Acousmatics, in collaboration with Estovers Editions. This album launch event will see the sounds from the album played live by KKTO (Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty) on guitar, trumpet, and electronics. This set will be presented as a live soundtrack, accompanying a projection of the films that the duo assembled over the course of the development of the work, showing the routes of abandoned railway lines in Berlin and Brandenburg. Full details and links below.

Also playing is Notorische Ruhestörung, an artist, organizer and activist mainly focusing on sound and music, but also active in other fields such as video, performance, zines and painting, DIY noisy electronics, and improvisation. Their solo project consists of samples of their own compositions, field recordings, DIY oscillators and effects and more, resulting in soundscapes ranging from ambient to psychedelic. See more: Website · Bandcamp · Soundcloud

Woven All of Dream and Error, the KKTO album, combines machine-learning-generated sounds of non-existent trains with accompanying trumpet, guitar, and effects. There are various aspects of drone, dub, and ambient music that have informed the development of these sounds. The album’s website gives more detail about how this all emerged, slowly, over the five or so years that have elapsed since this work began. The album was preceded by the video for the lead track, ‘Dream 1.’

The album is available online (on the album’s website and on Bandcamp), and is also being released as a set of fourteen unique lathe-cut records—one for each track on the album. These records were cut on the unique transducer-based SL-24 lathe, at Nuclear Lighthouse Studios in Berlin, by Kris Slyka. Each record in the series is cut into eight-inch square transparent polycarbonate sheets, housed in custom hand-made covers.

Woven All of Dream and Error · lathe-cut record series, 2025

The album emerged from an exhibition by Kata and Tom which was presented in September 2024 at Hošek Contemporary. The album arose from the same questions that prompted the initial exhibition: what traces are we leaving for the future? What remnants will remain, in an era where machine learning is becoming ubiquitous? How does this relate to existing remnants, which are the traces of past transformations?

The album, like the exhibition from which it derives, is titled after a line from a poem—Sonnet XXVI—by Fernando Pessoa. This poem, and our curiosity about it, is one part of what is outlined in the project’s introductory video, alongside further details about the album and the surrounding context in which it came to be. It’s linked here below.

Some links about it all: