This installation is the first in a series of works made with discarded loudspeakers I collected over many years
in London and Berlin. It was followed by 300 Unwanted Speakers in 2006, and by
Installation for 300 speakers, Pianola and vacuum cleaner, which became the first piece of sound art
in the Saatchi Collection, was seen by over half a million visitors as the centrepiece of the gallery's 2010
summer show in London, and won me the British Composer Award for Sonic Art.

"Scary and impressive at the same time; this enourmous, huge energy; this cruel curiosity of waiting for the crash.
The end within sight and the infinity of the falling tone. After listening for a long time you do not ask yourself
if it is pleasant or unpleasant - just knowing that something has happened creates fears in me.
This is a successful piece for us know-it-alls."
Andreas Schuster

From the gallery visitors' book:
"Sounds like heaven ... and hell. Thank you for the idea."
"The intersection of the tones: you think you hear something and it is coming from yourself."

Fallender ton was featured on the cover of
The Journal of Acoustic Ecology


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