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Everyday Etudes Nº 3: Fireplace : for cello, object player and sound file / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Multimedia
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting: vc object player tape

Sinfonia: Luci nella notte : for orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski

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

Valses sentimentales : opus 21, 1946 / orkestversie, Marius Flothuis

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2222 3000 timp str(vl vc cb)

De reis : for orchestra, 1994 / Anton Havelaar

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3332 3331 5perc hp pf(cel) str

compositie

The Harvest : Version for orchestra / Ville Raasakka

Auteur(s):
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.