Fergal Dowling on 'Falls':
'Falls' is a sample-based composition rendered entirely from the sounds of falling water recorded from public fountains in France and Germany. Falls was originally devised as an installation for continuously looped playback in an elongated enclosed space, such as a large stairwell or gallery corridor, but has also been performed in concert with the loudspeakers arranged both to the front and the rear of the audience.
'Falls' was composed using computer-based algorithms to define two concurrent streams of events which progress at varying rates. These rapid event streams produce a dense granular synthesis which then slows to reveal itself as a succession of explosions and ricochets. The actual rendering of the sampled sound source recordings was executed through virtual sound processing instruments.