The February edition of The Wire magazine (issue 432) features the chart Waterfall as Metronome, composed of works inspired by the sight and sound of waterfalls including field recordings, on-site improvisation, sound installations, white noise, ethnographic work, and new-age interpretations of water, flow and the effects of negative ions. While putting together this list, I imagined a speculative history of music where compositions were not driven by metronome’s mechanical account of time, but by the continuous atemporal flow of a waterfall.
Waterfall as Metronome 15
Sarah Hennies – Gather (Category of manifestation)
Daniel Menche – Raw Fall (The Tapeworm)
Hafdis Bjarnadottir – North (Gruenrekorder)
Bill Fontana – Vertical Water (Whitney Museum)
Peter Ablinger – Weiss / Weisslich 7b (Peter Ablinger)
Olivia Wyatt – The Pierced Heart and The Machete (Sublime Frequencies)
Carlos Niño – Delightfulllll / Waterfall (feat. Iasos) (Leaving Records)
Francisco López – Tawhirimatea (No label)
John Butcher- Close by, a waterfall (Confront)
Annea Lockwood – Englewood Brook Falls, Palisades (Lovely)
Herman de Vries – Thema 1: bach (Artists Press Bern)
Micheal Pisaro – Still Life with Cicadas, Waterfall and Radu (Gravity Wave)
Ulahi and Eyo:bo – Sing At A Waterfall (Folkways)
Paul Lloyd Warner – Kipahulu Falls (MPI)
Steven Feld – Flow like a Waterfall: The Metaphors of Kaluli Musical Theory (Yearbook for Traditional Music)
