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- ...into that good night
- 21 Marches for the 21st Century
- Adventura Anatomica
- All Men Are Pigs
- All Music At Once
- An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol.4 - a Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- CyberArts 2003: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
- Cyborgic
- Danse Macabre
- Defragmental
- Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang
- Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
- Dissolution Tapes
- En aldeles forferdelig sykdom
- EN/OF 001-030 Catalog
- Faces
- Filtered Through Friends
- Finders
- Fjord Focus
- From mouth cavity to laptop
- FULL
- Gi meg en grunn til å være kvinne
- Giants of Jazz
- Gødt Nørsk, kunstmuzik aus Norgwegen
- Help
- Hengekøye
- HØRT
- Illegal Parking
- International Rostrum of Composers 1955-1999
- Kantarell
- Kassett
- krikri 2003
- LIGHT
- listen...and tell me what it was
- Looking on Darkness
- MAJAAP
- Money Will Ruin Everything
- Money Will Ruin Everything 2
- More Music for Shopping
- Music for Faking
- Music for Gardening
- Music for Loving
- Music for Shopping
- My Deal
- Navigations
- Nor Noise
- Northern Stains
- Oak or Rock
- Orra
- Passing Images
- Pig Magic
- Planet POING
- Post-Human Identities
- River Mouth Echoes
- Rolex
- Runeology 4
- Safe as Milk Festival 05 sampler CD
- Shamelessly Exciting
- Shockadelica
- Sinus Seduction
- Snowblind
- Solveigs Lied Remixed
- some cassettes with Arve Hjalmars
- SOUN
- Sporlaust
- Stalker
- Super Street 7 "How To Make Brains"
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (CD)
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
- teip
- Tempo! 10
- Tender Love Is A Bitch
- The CD Electric Leak - the North
- The Dalston Shroud
- The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
- Travel Now Journey Infinitely
- Turntable Surface Fireball 2
- Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep
- Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
- Utflukt: LYD
- Ventemesteren
- Voice
- Voice, live in zagreb
- Voluptuous Vultures
- Vox ex machina
- VSG / Erwartung
- Wach auf!
- Women Take Back The Noise
- XXIII Concorso Internazionale Luigi Russolo di Musica Elettroacustica
Twitter feed
- "Høyt Oppe i Fjellet", the second performance for children 0-3 years is still running in Bergen! http://t.co/XiDvq6X8
- RT @svennevenn: Programmet for Borealis på nett (alt??). Jasså, så man må til Odda for Stian Westerhus solo og Poing m Maja Ratkje! http ...
- Slugfield's debut album "Slime Zone" (Nilssen-Love, Marhaug, Ratkje) available now: http://t.co/l8yepKwt
- RT @tusk_music: IKue Mori and @majaratkje on the cover of Moving In Music (Belfast)'s programme brochure http://t.co/ikepUiyX
- @dontbeafraid "just let them show: True colors, true colors..." ? I love that song.
Upcoming shows
- 13/02/12 - 03/03/12 Hanne Dieserud in Bergen at Den Nationale Scene Buy tickets
- 03/03/12 Aksiom with Maja S. K. Ratkje in Oslo at Norges Musikkhøgskole
- 09/03/12 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Hamar at Høgskolen i Hedmark
- 09/03/12 POING and Maja S. K. Ratkje in Hamar at tba
- 17/03/12 POING and Maja S. K. Ratkje in Odda at tba
Category Archives: Mixed media/Odd shapes
Pig Magic
The Norwegian noise duo Maranata (Jon Wesseltoft and Dag Stiberg) has released this 7″ with a CD included. 7″: Lucky Forever b/w Pig Magic. CD: 1. Pieces, 2. Gravity Connector, 3. Black Tongue Darshan Track 3 features Maja S. K. … Continue reading
LIGHT
Rune Grammofon: “This DVD gives a rare and unique insight into the live concert experience of one of Norway´s most prominent and long standing contemporary impro groups. Commisioned by the Henie Onstad Art Centre for it´s 40th anniversary in 2008, … Continue reading
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Tagged SPUNK
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Kassett
Double cassette compilation of Norwegian noise and music. More than two hours of material. Limited edition of 255 copies. Compiled by Lasse Marhaug for the KASSETT exhibition at Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Nov. 15, 2010.
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More Music for Shopping
A 3″ CD-R included in a super-limited Special Shopping Edition of Maja S.K. Ratkje & Lasse Marhaug’s 2003 album “Music For Shopping”. But this edition never materialized, so here you can finally hear these tracks for the first time. Maja … Continue reading
Danse Macabre
Free improvised solo concert at Podium, Oslo, 16 June 2009. Continue reading
Solveigs Lied Remixed
Vital Weekly: “To state the liveliness of the world of CDRs this is probably the most ultimate item on the scene as it is released by no less than ten different labels around the globe, including two Chinese labels, two … Continue reading
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Cyborgic
The Last Record Company/Rune Grammofon: “A rare live recording and her first solo album for quite some time, this finds Maja on top form. Since her recording debut as a member of SPUNK 10 years ago, she has continuously challenged … Continue reading
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Money Will Ruin Everything 2
Rune Grammofon: “Originally planned as an update and slightly revised edition of the long deleted 2cd / book of the same name released in 2003 to celebrate 5 years of Rune Grammofon, this has now turned into a completely new … Continue reading
Super Street 7 “How To Make Brains”
Frankly, I have no ide what this is. Some kind of bootleg? It’s a cassette, I think. Found it at Discogs. Fe-mail is on it? “all live comp. featuring : odd clouds, fe-mail, taliban, luasa raelon, charlie draheim. 5 heavy … Continue reading
Utflukt: LYD
A DVD/CD issue of a Norwegian magazine. Featuring Agrare, Maja Ratkje/Monica Aasprong, Maia Urstad, Risto Holopainen, Natasha Barrett and other artists. Continue reading
teip
Ambolthue Records: “This is the content of Maja’s analogue dictaphone that’s been with her on concerts, around the world and with her in the studio for the last years.” Here you’ll find short extracts from various concerts, solo performances and … Continue reading
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Women Take Back The Noise
A compilation, showcases a collection of 47 women artists worldwide who experiment with sound in various ways, ranging from ambient-organic to quirky-glitch-beat to harsh or extreme noise, as well as categories yet to be defined. The finished release of three … Continue reading
Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
Box set containing five 10″ vinyl records celebrating 50 Rune Grammofon releases. Includes 19 tracks by rune artists. “Some are cornestones in the catalog, but this is not a best of collection, we want to show the different aspects of … Continue reading
Illegal Parking
Lotta Melin – theremin with effects. Maja S. K. Ratkje – flee market microphone. Duets and solos. Released as 12′ vinyl. Track list: A 01. A Perfect Mental Image A 02. Empty Ladders A 03. As the Talk Goes On … Continue reading
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Stalker
catalog number: imprec092format: picture disc This vinyl only picture disc release is limited to only 500 copies worldwide. Important Records: “Renowned international composer Maja Ratkje is a founding member in two of Norway’s most respected improvisational units – Spunk & … Continue reading
Blixter Toad
2xCD. Asphodel: “Fe-mail, MAJA RATKJE and HILD SOFIE TAFJORD, have crafted a site-specific survey of the chaparrals of noise music. As half of the Scandinavian female improv quartet, SPUNK, they began to adapt their mediums of french horn and voice to multiple formats…” Watch videos and listen to some of the music here. Continue reading
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Voluptuous Vultures
Available in 10″ vinyl or full length CD which includes an extra track. Vinyl also available in a heavy metal box with poster-artwork by Lasse Marhaug (limited edition of 30 copies). Vinyl release text from PsychForm:” 10″ vinyl – standard … Continue reading
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Tagged Fe-mail, vinyl
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EN/OF 001-030 Catalog
The deluxe exhibition catalogue which is documenting EN/OF’s first 30 editions, as presented at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany, May-June 2005. The catalogue (package) includes a fully illustrated book (with essays by AA Bronson and Jörg Heiser), complete with artwork reproductions and a second, die-cut tray book that holds 3 CD’s with 30 tracks totally. Continue reading
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Vox ex machina
Curated by Jaap Blonk this is volume 15 in the Leonardo Music Journal CD series. Selections include ‘Kana’ by Tomomi Adachi, ‘O Som Que Circula Nas Veia’ by Americo Jorge M. Rodrigues, excerpt from ‘Mushroom Clouds’ by Christian Bok, ‘Vielleicht’ … Continue reading
Nor Noise
CD and DVD double pack. Nor Noise is a documentary about Noise music – perhaps the most exiting and innovative form of music to evolve in the last years. The film maker Tom Hovinbøle has since the project started in … Continue reading