gerelateerde werken

The Moss Slowly Growing : for flute and guitar / Ville Raasakka

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: fl gtr

Scherzo : for symphony orchestra, 2004 / Kees Olthuis

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 3333 4331 timp 4perc str

Passacaglia : for orchestra / Wassim Ibrahim

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: 2fl ob eh 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt 2trb cumb timp str

Cette agitation perpétuelle, cette turbulence sans but : for orchestra / Jan van de Putte

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Orkest
Bezetting: fl/picc/fl-a ob/eh cl/clb/cl-cb sax/tubax h tpt trb 2perc g-elec hp org acc 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.