gerelateerde werken

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

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Piano met multimedia
Bezetting: pf tape

Tweede suite Baron Hop / Alexander Voormolen

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp timp str

L'Élue : Prelude pour orchestre / Bram Kortekaas

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: picc 3fl(picc) fl-a 3ob 2eh 3cl 2cl-b 3fg 2cfg 8h 5tpt(tpt-b) 3trb 2tb 2timp 3perc str

Symphonie no. 23 in c-moll : for orchestra / Julius Röntgen

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: pic 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb timp perc hp str

compositie

The Harvest : Version for orchestra / Ville Raasakka

Overige auteurs:
Raasakka, Ville (Componist)
Toelichting:
The harvest as a word stirs up images of autumnal peace and bountifulness. This work is however about the current forest machines that harvest the trees in frightening effectivity, within seconds. I have used the sounds of these current machines and transcribed them to the instruments.
The moaning glissandi of the hydraulics, the rhythmic buzzing of the saws, the beeping of the control panels and the crackling and snapping of the trees are the key sound elements of the work.
The horrific, machine-like sounds turn into music which struggles to free itself from the sound sources. The music becomes filtered and sinks into a sorrowful state of disbelief.
This devastated music is mourning the total loss of natural biodiversity and the constant series of extinctions.
The easy profits of forestry (the so-called ”forest management”) has led to a situation where over a 100 years old forests will soon no longer exist in Finland (under 5% at the moment), and the rest are, strictly speaking, not forests at all. We have tree farms, pretending an image of a real forest.