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
Sun Spot : for piano and tape / Kasia Głowicka
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)
Touch : for piano and electronics / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Electronical music
Subgenre:
Piano with electronics
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