related works

Vanishing point : for piano / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Voix : for piano and electronics / Xavier Gelabert

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

to keep silence : for piano end electronics / Alla Zagaykevych

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

Appulse : for piano (with optional electronics) / Petra Strahovnik

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

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