Author name: Maja Ratkje

Temporalistene (NO)

Tidsopplevelser i musikalsk science fiction. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha./O Ha/Su,- ha, -per, ha/ma,- ha/-an. Ha, ha, ha, ha. –Laurie Anderson: «O Superman» Hverken Laurie Anderson eller noen andre kunne spå at den smårare, minimalistiske sangen «O Superman (For Massenet)»

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Celadon

A record of slowly evolving beauty that gradually unravels its meditative design. Recorded in Norwegian sculptor and painter Emanuel Vigeland’ s (1875 -1948) mausoleum in Oslo in 2013. A recording space that is famous for its acoustics and its long and full-sounding reverb. These three tracks utilize both the delicacy and the power of acoustic

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Vital dialog med polskt experiment (SE)

Svenska Dagbladet: En elektroakustisk skatt grävs nu fram ur arkiven på den polska radions Experimentalstudio. Här ligger hundratals verk och väntar, producerade sedan starten 1957 av storheter som Krzysztof Penderecki, Boguslaw Schaeffer och Eugeniusz Rudnik. De flesta är inspelade under kommuniståren då den elektroniska musiken, liksom jazzen, tilläts leva ett relativt ostört liv. Det är

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meow nim xluf minus w-moan ulf men equals nixon

In a series of fluxus releases: Agrare (Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje/Hild Sofie Tafjord/Lotta Melin) – Seglet Er Vekk (from performance ‘[intlink id=”236″ type=”post”]A Safe Place to Die[/intlink]’, 2010) Mama Baer – For the Maincontrol Natalie Lauchlan – 65.7N20.3W Hannah Silva – Threshold Barbara Rapp – Kategorie (Salon Freiheit Klagenfurt, Dezember 2012) One-side LP, limited 100

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Deviate From Balance

John Wiese’s long awaited Deviate From Balance is the artist’s first album since 2011’s Seven Of Wands (PAN). Recorded throughout Europe/UK, Australia, and the US, the album includes scored ensemble pieces including over 20 musicians on each, recorded in Melbourne and Portland, as well as audio documentation of installation pieces Wind Changed Direction, a four-channel

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String Quartets vol IV: Schubert-Ratkje-Britten-Haydn

2L: “Perhaps the greatest single characteristic of Franz Schubert’s Rosamunde Quartet (1823) is the elusive, longing and perhaps even tragically unconsummated atmosphere that pervades the entire work. Only in the Andante are we really allowed to relax in its peaceful serenity. The ambiguity in the title of Maja Ratkje’s [intlink id=”6968″ type=”post”]Tale of Lead and

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Ratkjes unike taletid (NO)

Mellom klimarapporter og fravær av grønne poster i det kommende statsbudsjettet, forteller musikeren og samtidskomponisten Maja S. K. Ratkje oss at redningsaksjonen allerede er grunnlovsfestet, skriver Tove K. Heyerdahl. publisert i Ballade.no 9.12.2014 Åtte norske symfoniorkestre fremførte i høst konsertserien “Ja, vi elsker” i anledning grunnlovsjubileet, med utelukkende norske komposisjoner. Seks av orkestrene hadde i

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Live in Molde reviews (in English, German, Dutch and Polish)

Record link Massimo Ricci. Touching Extremes: Joëlle Léandre: double bass; Kristin Andersen: trumpet and flutes; Lene Grenager: cello; Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje: voice and electronics; Hild Sofie Tafjord: french horn and electronics Some collaborations are, in straight words, gifts of mother nature for inquisitive audiences. Such is the case of the seven-year long joint venture

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