composer
Ville Raasakka is a composer based in Helsinki, Finland. He works with ecology and environmental sounds. His compositional practice ranges from orchestral and chamber music to electronics, installation and performance ...
related works
The Moss Slowly Growing : for flute and guitar / Ville Raasakka
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Instruments:
fl gtr
Cortège : for 2 pianos, 1992 / Jan Boerman
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
2pf
Sous-marine : voor piano / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Instruments:
pf
Passacaglia : pianoforte, 1975 / Henk van der Vliet
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