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 edition 400 copies / limited edition 30 copies. PsychForm: “The new release on PsychForm Records […]
Voluptuous Vultures Read More »
Two Swedish papers on a performance by Agrare in Ystad.
Ljud och klanger fyllde konstmuseet (SE) Read More »
2005; dur: 3′; Church organ; Score at Cantando Musikkforlag
Preludium for a wedding ceremony Read More »
SuSteMani CREW:
La tensione creativa di Maja, mischiando sapientemente tecnologia e presenza fisica, indica una strada di libertà.
Agrare (Norvegia) (IT) Read More »
Dagsavisen:
– I utlandet lurer de alltid på hva de lange norske platetitlene våre betyr smiler Kristin Andersen.
2005; dur: 50′; Dance performance by Ratkje/Odd johan Fritzøe/Karl Hansen
Adventura Anatomica Read More »
Interzona 2005, the original Q’s & A’s. When did you decide to become an artist and how did you choose what way to follow? I knew from when I was very little that I wanted to express myself through creative work, I enjoyed to make music and to create all sorts of artwork from I
The dada voice of Maja Ratkje Read More »
Skrevet til programmet for danseforestillingen Adventura Anatomica som hadde premiere 17. nov 2005 La oss si at den kunstneriske skapelsesprosessen er en bevegelse, som starter når en idé blir unnfanget og får et endepunkt idet bevegelsen virker inn på en mottaker. Den franske filosofen Henri Bergson 1) ville ha kalt idéfasen en intuitiv, opplevd tilstand:
Lyd er bevegelse (NO) Read More »
Audiatur 2005: Hvis man skulle forsøke å fange inn det overveldende i å høre Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkjes vokal første gang, kunne man kanskje si at det henger sammen med følelsen av å ha glemt noe. Å ha glemt hvor mange sterke, svake, dype, lyse, skremmende, levende, fremmede, forskjellige lyder en menneskestemme kan lage –
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (NO) Read More »
Nero Magazine, Issue 5: Esistono territori liminari e altri, dove la vocalità trascende le frontiere della pura sfera acustica e s’inabissa nei gangli della psiche, fino a farsi beffa di ogni rassicurante verità; si proietta al di fuori di sé, per sublimare la contesa tra le potenzialità creative del corpo e i limiti esterni che
Rui Eduardo Paes:
-All forms of underground music or alternative art must stop to quarrel and make a strong front against the main enemy: brainwashing mainstream culture, owned by the richest with one underlying goal: to make more money, and secondary goals, to keep people from thinking differently so that the regime can keep the materialistic acceleration.
Maja Ratkje – Looking Forward Read More »
MIC:
“However, at the fringes of the paradigm there are artists hard at work with changing our conception of music at its deepest level. Norwegian composer and performer Maja Ratkje is one such artist to be reckoned with. One of the most exiting and unsettling forces in contemporary music today, she consistently exposes the conventionalism of music as it is commonly conceived and never seizes to disturb anyone who will listen.”
Maja Ratkje and the end of music Read More »
Ballade: Den norske komponisten Maja Ratkje markerte seg i Rostrum for komponister 2005. Hennes verk “Concerto for Voice (moods III)” ble et av de 10 anbefalte verkene i årets Rostrum, og var også hennes første store verk for orkester. Verket er tilgjengelig i streamet multikanal-utgave på Ulyd-sidene til NRK.no. The International Rostrum of Composers (IRC)
Europeisk heder til Maja Ratkje (NO) Read More »
Maja velger tre favoritter innen musikk, litteratur og kunst.
Tre favoritter (NO) Read More »
A concert recording of Voice, live in Zagreb 2005, in duo with John Hegre, limited CD-R release for tour in China of 49 copies, all signed and numbered.
Voice, live in zagreb Read More »
Sonig: “In 2004 Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) made heads turn with his third album and first release on Sonig, The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash, a musical rollercoaster ripping through genres like an amphetamine crazed hobo. It received rave reviews from a respected array of international press; a remarkable accomplishment for
Shamelessly Exciting Read More »
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.
EN/OF 001-030 Catalog Read More »
