related works

The Moss Slowly Growing : for flute and guitar / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl gtr

Legerdemain : for piano and electronics / Yannis Kyriakides

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano with multimedia
Scoring: pf tape

Fossils I-VII : for piano (and optional electronics) / Arnold Marinissen

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano with multimedia
Scoring: pf elec

Touch : for piano and electronics / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano with multimedia

composition

Oil Rig : for grand piano, objects, two performers and electronics / Ville Raasakka

Other authors:
Raasakka, Ville (Composer)
Description:
This work is based on the BBC field recordings from an oil rig in the Forties Oil Fields in 1976. British Petroleum started production in 1975 in this oil field that remains the largest one in the North Sea to date. The sounds of the oil rig, the workers and the sea meet the piano and objects reacting to these sounds and also replicating them.
The genre of this work is somewhere between a composition and a sound installation. Both the written part for the piano and the arrangement of the numerous field recordings balance somewhere between sound as an active event and sound as an environment.
Ville Raasakka