composer
Ville Raasakka (b. 1977) works with environmental composition, focusing on ecology, materiality and acoustic environments. His orchestral work gained a recommendation at the prestigious International Rostrum of Composers in 2019 ...
related works
Bark : for woodwind quintet / Ville Raasakka
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wood Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
fl ob cl fg h
Variations : for piano, 1981 / Peter Kann
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
Variations I : for piano / Khadija Zeynalova
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
Sonatina no. 9 : per pianoforte / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
composition
Vanishing point : for piano / Ville Raasakka
Description:
Vanishing Point was commissioned by Risto-Matti Marin for a celebratory concert on the 200th birthday of Wagner. The starting point for the work is a short piano piece by Wagner called Ankunft bei den schwarzen Schwänen – Albumblatt in As-Dur für Klavier (WWV 95).
I wanted to put the original work into a distance. The piece, supposed to be a sonic model, began to go further and further while composing. The only thing remaining from the original is a single pitch: A point in the horizon.
The vanishing point is a term from the visual arts, representing a way of drawing perspective where all the lines in a painting point towards one point. I wanted to create my own landscape, where Wagner is only a focal point in the farthest distance, at the point of vanishing.
Ville Raasakka