Pekka Sassi 1.11. - 22.11.2009
A House on a Hill / garage opera
A House on a Hill is a garage opera / sung radio play / pop music. The work consists of 14 pieces. A man lives alone, working on a secret experiment in his basement.
Vocals, guitars, bass, banjo, harmonica, glockenspiel, recorder, percussion, drums, recording, mixing and mastering: Pekka Sassi
I originally wrote A House on a Hill as a radio play. The first version was a text read over a musical background. When I listened to the playback, I understood that the text should be sung, and I began to work on a second version. I was amazed how naturally the text, originally written as speech, became a song. There was something that was explicitly honest and existent in the singing; the text became musical compositions and the entire radio play became a pop record.
The snow melts when she laughs.
I laugh too.
Then we descend again.
That she has learned from me,
To set her hat with the edge of her mitten.
A lambskin on the sled bottom.
The snow is grainy crushed ice.
- It is here again
- Standing at the edge of the woods, staring this way
A bottomless terror numbed me yesterday.
Only barely was I able to do a day’s work.
It still haunts me, but I know,
Only forward must I go.
Luckily I have a plan. If I can only
Follow it, success will be mine.
Snow Melting
(A cappella, blues)
Pekka Sassi
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world. Described as a wide-ranging, yet uncompromising, artist, Sassi earned a Master of Arts degree at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2000. His works have been presented at several domestic and foreign festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for audio-visual art in 2006.
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