Atefeh Einali, Sketch (detail) for trio
ABOUT
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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.
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. |
photo by Detlef Baltrock
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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.
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 addition, the artists talk about their artistic practice in video and audio formats, describing moments of doubt and failure as well as moments of obsession and inspiration.
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.
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.
PROPOSALS & FORMATS
TOWARDS SOUND // A VISIT BY THE FLEETING ARCHIVE
With the entire archive or selected contributions I travel to your event/institution with the to create a temporary place of research and exploration. The visitors have the opportunity to browse through the contributions, study sketchbooks and look at excerpts from interviews with the authors via tablets or their own smartphones. I will be present and available to the interested public for further information on the participating artists and their creative processes.
With the entire archive or selected contributions I travel to your event/institution with the to create a temporary place of research and exploration. The visitors have the opportunity to browse through the contributions, study sketchbooks and look at excerpts from interviews with the authors via tablets or their own smartphones. I will be present and available to the interested public for further information on the participating artists and their creative processes.
TOWARDS SOUND // Focus Portrait
TOWARDS SOUND creates portraits, documenting the creative process of individual artists or artists collectives. These portraits come with excerpts from interviews and can be presented in physical exhibitions as well as in digital formats.
Reference project: Rooted in Iran - an Exhibition with visual traces of the creative process by fourteen female composers from Iran in HilbertRaum, Berlin
TOWARDS SOUND creates portraits, documenting the creative process of individual artists or artists collectives. These portraits come with excerpts from interviews and can be presented in physical exhibitions as well as in digital formats.
Reference project: Rooted in Iran - an Exhibition with visual traces of the creative process by fourteen female composers from Iran in HilbertRaum, Berlin
TOWARDS SOUND // Focus Content
The variety of contributions to the constantly growing archive results in a broad range of artistic positions. TOWARDS SOUND complements the thematic focus of your event with documents and recordings from the Fleeting Archive and elicits new contributions to match your curatorial concerns.
Reference project: The Fleeting Archive @Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
As part of the digital closing event of the artistic research laboratory at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, TOWARDS SOUND presented contributions from its Fleeting Archive in response to the topic
Artistic Action between Contemplation and (Political) Activism.
The variety of contributions to the constantly growing archive results in a broad range of artistic positions. TOWARDS SOUND complements the thematic focus of your event with documents and recordings from the Fleeting Archive and elicits new contributions to match your curatorial concerns.
Reference project: The Fleeting Archive @Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
As part of the digital closing event of the artistic research laboratory at the Cologne University of Music and Dance, TOWARDS SOUND presented contributions from its Fleeting Archive in response to the topic
Artistic Action between Contemplation and (Political) Activism.
TOWARDS SOUND // Focus Education
The educational aspect of TOWARDS SOUND can be tailored to different target groups. No previous musical training is necessary for any of the formats. The direct, visual language of the working documents and the look behind the scenes of the creative process also allow children and young people an uncomplicated introduction to the current sound-based arts.
The educational aspect of TOWARDS SOUND can be tailored to different target groups. No previous musical training is necessary for any of the formats. The direct, visual language of the working documents and the look behind the scenes of the creative process also allow children and young people an uncomplicated introduction to the current sound-based arts.
Óscar Valero Sáez, Sketch detail from a series of sketches studying different approaches to muisc