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TOWARDS SOUND sees itself as network, archive and series of events taking a look at the creative process of people working in the field of sound. It investigates diverse approaches of rendering sonic imagination tangible.
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. TOWARDS SOUND aims at bringing these valuable witnesses of a creative journey out of the drawer by presenting them in exhibitions and lecture concerts as well as collecting and archiving them.
Another - quite essential - layer within the act of sonic creation is the inner listening that precedes any activity in the course of a working process related to sound. A listening to what still is to become. This happens in silence, in solitude. A seemingly quiet activity, yet often entwined with an immense amount of mental and emotional intensity. By fostering the dialogue with participating artists TOWARDS SOUND investigates this peculiar state which is so essential to the creation of music and sound. In various formats - each of them being tailored to the individual artistic practises - the findings of this exploration are shared with the public.
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. TOWARDS SOUND aims at bringing these valuable witnesses of a creative journey out of the drawer by presenting them in exhibitions and lecture concerts as well as collecting and archiving them.
Another - quite essential - layer within the act of sonic creation is the inner listening that precedes any activity in the course of a working process related to sound. A listening to what still is to become. This happens in silence, in solitude. A seemingly quiet activity, yet often entwined with an immense amount of mental and emotional intensity. By fostering the dialogue with participating artists TOWARDS SOUND investigates this peculiar state which is so essential to the creation of music and sound. In various formats - each of them being tailored to the individual artistic practises - the findings of this exploration are shared with the public.
PAST EVENTS
Colin Roche - Le Livre des Nombres / Ruban (2016)
Twenty-five composers and sound artists grant a peek behind the scenes of their creative process. Their contributions respond to the question : How do you transform the intangible aspects of sonic imagination to something more palpable preceding musical notation or actual sound?
featuring contributions by
Michele Abondano, Rosaire Appel, Helena Cánovas Parés, Gloria Damijan, Nikos Drelas, Alessandra Eramo, Christina Ertl Shirley,
James Etherington, Jesse Farber, Birgitta Flick, James Fulkerson, Gerard Garrison, Steve Gisby, Roy Fernando Guzman, Timo Kahlen,
Julien Lonchamp, Frédéric Mathevet, Diego Rocha, Colin Roche, Luca Staffiere, Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Eldred Stevenson, Peter Strickmann, Francisco Uberto, Thomas van Walle, Steffi Weismann
Opening: Friday 31 July 2020 | 6 - 10 PM
Duration: Saturday 1 - 9 August
HilbertRaum
Reuterstr. 31
D- 12047Berlin
featuring contributions by
Michele Abondano, Rosaire Appel, Helena Cánovas Parés, Gloria Damijan, Nikos Drelas, Alessandra Eramo, Christina Ertl Shirley,
James Etherington, Jesse Farber, Birgitta Flick, James Fulkerson, Gerard Garrison, Steve Gisby, Roy Fernando Guzman, Timo Kahlen,
Julien Lonchamp, Frédéric Mathevet, Diego Rocha, Colin Roche, Luca Staffiere, Gudmundur Steinn Gunnarsson, Eldred Stevenson, Peter Strickmann, Francisco Uberto, Thomas van Walle, Steffi Weismann
Opening: Friday 31 July 2020 | 6 - 10 PM
Duration: Saturday 1 - 9 August
HilbertRaum
Reuterstr. 31
D- 12047Berlin