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Oil Rig : for grand piano, objects, two performers and electronics / Ville Raasakka
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Piano met multimedia
Bezetting:
pf tape
L'ère du verseau: Prelude (uit Aquarius) : voor orkest / Karel Goeyvaerts
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3tpt 3trb perc pf str
La lucerna del mondo : for symphony orchestra, 1996/revision 2005 / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb 4timp 3perc pf str
Les palmes dans le vent : (etude symphonique), (1950) / Ignace Lilien
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
3233 4331 timp perc hp pf 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.