POINT OF DEPARTURE
TOWARDS SOUND was initiated by Dr. Ruth Wiesenfeld in 2020 out of   her curiosity about the creative processes of other composers. With TOWARDS SOUND Ruth wants to engender encounters embracing the vulnerable state of not knowing intrinsic to the artistic quest.
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Wiesenfeld‘s artistic language wanders between musical composition, performance and visual art. Her body of works consists of scores in conventional as well as experimental forms of notation, sculptural objects, installations and videos. Ruth teaches Awareness through Movement at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin and holds a PhD in music composition from Dartington College of Arts, where she studied with Frank Denyer. 
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A BLINK FROM SONIC EYES, Drawings from the Fleeting Archive of Towards Sound at re:future Lab (Berlin), Installation Shot
Inventing a new sound world is a highly complex adventure, even more so if refraining from auxiliary means such as musical instruments or audio software. Once the imaginative powers are overextended, the desire for a palpable vis-à-vis comes into play: anything but sound that enables the passage from the first vague conception towards a finished work. Acts of drawing, sculpting, writing, filming, ordering, assembling and taking apart facilitate a deeper comprehension of ones imagined sound world - its textures, energies and structural elements.

Considered as mere byproducts of an artistic quest focused on a musical composition or another kind of audio work, the outcomes of such deviations are often doomed to a shadowy existence. ​
THE FLEETING ARCHIVE
TOWARDS SOUND takes these silent witnesses of a creative processes out of the drawers, collects them in its Fleeting Archive and makes them accessible to the public in exhibitions and participatory lecture events. Its organic, non-hierarchical structure enables the Fleeting Archive to offer a platform to voices that have hardly been noticed in the mainstream cultural scene yet. The artists represented are diverse in every respect: origin, aesthetics, genre, fame, socialization.

Since the foundation of TOWARDS SOUND in 2020 the holdings of the FLEETING ARCHIVE have been presented in HilbertRaum (Berlin), LTK4 (Cologne), Audiograft Festival (Oxford), University for Music and Dance (Cologne) and Re:future Lab (Berlin).