related works

Steam Engine : for soprano and baroque ensemble / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Female choir and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr fl h cemb 2vn vla vc

to keep silence : for piano end electronics / Alla Zagaykevych

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

Limen II : for piano, ambisonic tape and live electronics / Tilen Lebar

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano with multimedia

Coronal Hole : for piano and electronics / Xavier Gelabert

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

composition

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

Author(s):
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