part 1: The richness in sound of falling water. Some of these places have been resounding with water for millennia, others only do so occasionally. The recordings were made in Madeira, Lower Austria, in the mountains of Tyrol and in Vienna.
part 2: Human beings can cause water to fall, too. This scene was recorded at Brigittenauer Bad in Vienna. Crying person: Hanna Zamernig, co-actor with a few words of text: Oliver Aitzetmüller.
part 3: Hope. Falling drops as a prerequisite for fertility – raindrop strikes examined through an acoustic microscope. The ocean was recorded at 6 am on a beach in Sardinia, shortly after a swarm of flamingos had flown over our heads.
part 4: The unedited sound of a water basin, recorded in a stone house in Umbria, Italy. The water tap had been lightly slapped by hand shortly before: this is how water can sound when falling through human technology.
Falling Water produces an endless variety of sounds, it gushes from different sources and can have different kinds of impacts.
When Water Falls is an audio drama consisting of four parts. The sound material used mainly originates from field recordings, which were edited and manipulated in varying degrees.
While making numerous field recordings in the course of my travels, the diversity of sounds water can produce began to interest me increasingly. The attention for the circumstances and possibilities of falling water eventually resulted in this audio piece. In addition to aspects of tone and sound it also deals with the origins and impacts of water. The triad of the force of nature, self-determination and collective subconscious determines the possibility of choice: When water falls … who will be your gardener?
