Katharina Bévand is a sound artist, live synthesist, lecturer and cultural professional with a background in Fine Arts and a Master of Arts in Sound Studies at UdK Berlin. Her work explores the intersections of sound, architecture and bodies, generative processes and authorship as well as fostering a less anthropocene view on the built environment and machines. She is drawn towards expanding concepts of time in music, such as Drone and Deep Listening as well as physical sound experiences. Her sound oscillates from metallic object sounds towards noise, industrial, axperimental, ambient, dreamy atmospheres and synthesized sounds. From fiield recordings to room atmospheres, sound sculptures and 3D Sound, she constructs and investigates sonic architectures and vibrating materials.
She exhibited internationally, in Germany, Spain, Egypt, Taiwan, the Autonomous Region Kurdistan in Iraq, Finland, Switzerland and Austria. She played live at venues such as the Club/Gallery Ohm, SUPERBOOTH 25 and for SELVA HYUGENS at the Giri Pop-up during Berlin Fashion Week, she played at the Mille Plateaux Nonference at Forum Stadtpark in Graz, exhibited at the Madou Sugar Industry Triennale(Taiwan), was part of Kunst im Bau: 90 Jahre Haus des Rundfunks RBB(Berlin), Begehungen Chemnitz in the former Braustolz Brewery, Dystopia Sound Art Biennial(Berlin), Space21 Festival(Kurdistan/Iraq), among others.
She teaches sound art and modular synthesis at Berlin School of Sound, the summer school of the FU university Berlin and was invited by the architectural lighting design department at Hochschule Wismar to teach immersive installation art. She co-curates the Mapping Sound in Exile Festival together with Goethe-Institut im Exil. In 2022, she organised Cráter, the first sound art residency in La Palma, Canary Islands, fostering site-specific sonic research and artistic exchange.
Image of a performance inside the Goldrausch exhibition 2021 Mutual Matters,
Fahrbereitschaft / Haubrock Foundation Berlin. Photo©Peer Kugler
Live Performance for Force Inc. / Mille Plateaux
Photo©Clara Wildberger
Live Performance on an Ambisonics Sound System
Photo©Clara Wildberger
Localize Festival Potsdam (2023)
Sound-Light installation + Live Performance
Goldrausch Project for Women Artists
Concentric infinity spirals engraved on sounding metallic plates (found objects), transducers attached transform the plates into loudspeakers.
Curtain on the right side is part of an installation by Bethan Hughes.
Goldrausch Project for Women Artists 2021
Orbiting Mantra is a sound sculpture made of found objects: tea trays, that vibrate through attached transducers. These metallic plates are engraved with concentric evolving spirals resembling infinity, similar like the effect of time experience while listening to drones. This piece was developed in honor of Eliane Radigue for her 88th Birthday fpr the exhibition Infinité at Galerie Weisser Elefant (Berlin).
Videowork on the left by Hana Yoo, image on the right by Ingrid Ogenstedt.