Water to me, as a conductor and musician, is sound and music, constantly used as a source of inspiration within classical music. I wanted to highlight the different sounds and pieces that water has impacted throughout different periods of classical music. To do so, I took pages from orchestral scores with water as the source of inspiration, and abstractly drew water with different shades of blue while listening to each piece, having each stroke invoking the sounds of each piece. I then attached them in the form of a waterfall and sprayed different portions of the music with water to further invoke the relation to water within the sheet music, thus creating Waterfall of Sound.

Waterfall of Sound was created using sheet music from the following pieces: G.F. Handel’s Wassermusik Overture, B. Smetana’s Mein Vaterland – Nr. II Modau (Vltava), R. Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony, C. Debussy’s La Mer, A. Rubinstein’s Ocean, R. Wagner’s Das Rheingold Vorspiel, J. Sibelius’ The Swan of Tuonela, M. Ravel’s Une Barque Sur L’Ocean, F. Liszt’s Les Jeux D’Eaux A La Villa D’Este, E. Elgar’s Sea Slumber Song, F. Mendelssohn’s Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, J. Sibelius’ The Oceanides, P. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Overture, N. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade – I. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship, C. Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals – Aquarium, O. Respighi’s La fontana di Valle Giulia all’alba, F. Mendelssohn’s Die Hebriden Overture”