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
Black Cloud, Under Ground : for orchestra / Ville Raasakka
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
fl fl-a ob eh 2cl(cl-b) fg cfg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb 2perc str
Sun Spot : for piano and tape / Kasia Głowicka
Genre:
Electronical music
Subgenre:
Piano with electronics
Instruments:
pf tape
Coronal Hole : for piano and electronics / Xavier Gelabert
Genre:
Electronical music
Subgenre:
Piano with electronics
Instruments:
pf tape
Appulse : for piano (with optional electronics) / Petra Strahovnik
Genre:
Electronical music
Subgenre:
Piano with electronics
Instruments:
pf (tape)
composition
Oil Rig : for grand piano, objects, two performers and electronics / Ville Raasakka
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