Beim Festival CTM in Berlin hallt das Motto „Persistence“ – Beharren – in vielen Konzerten, Kunstwerken und Klanginstallationen nach. Taz.de: (…)Mit „Avant Joik“ brachten die beiden Künstlerinnen am Sonntag im HAU 2 eine zeitgenössische Interpretation des traditionellen Joik auf die Bühne. Sie ist kaum beschreibbar, umso intensiver und berührender, gerade weil man – wenn man nicht […]
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2020; dur: 1’30”; Vln, Vla, Vlc, Pno, Perc; Score at Wise Music Classical
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6. november 2020, rett før alt på nytt ble stengt ned og jeg ble permittert for første gang i mitt liv. En gang spurte folk hvor du var da Oddvar Brå brakk staven. Mange år senere, blant musikere, fikk askeskyen fra Island en liknende rolle; selv husker jeg godt bussturen til Amsterdam for å rekke
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Composed and performed for TUSK Virtual 2020. Part 1 of 2. Maja S. K. Ratkje is using voice and live electronics (with software by Øyvind Brandtsegg). Link to concert film as streamed at TUSK Virtual Oct 7th 2020 given upon request from those who buy the album. All music composed and performed by Maja S.
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Guro Kleveland, Ballade.no 22.09.20 – Lasse Marhaug fikk tilgang til vårt arkiv og frie tøyler, forteller Maja S. K. Ratkje i SPUNK. – Det er jo så mye, og noe av det er ganske gammelt! Og så er det jo litt tilfeldig hva som finnes. Resultatet av støymusiker Lasse Marhaugs arkivdykk er denne nesten 15
Klassekampen 21.09.20 Det er et helt vesentlig jubileum når friimprovisasjonsgruppen Spunk nå fyller 25 år. Da gruppen startet opp i 1995 var de nemlig ganske alene om å drive med denne typen friimprovisasjon. En nærmere definisjon av gruppen er imidlertid vanskelig. Sjangerdefinisjoner blir altfor smale, og Spunk driver med noe større enn samtidsmusikken. (…) de
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First album in Frode Haltli’s tripple solo release on Svartskog Music Production (SMP) Three very different works for solo accordion: Edison Denisov’s masterpiece ‘Des ténèbres à la lumière’ (1995), and two first recordings: James Dillon’s ‘Two Studies’ (2002) and Maja S.K. Ratkje’s ‘Dismantled Pipes’ (2020). Recorded by Frode Haltli 2020. Relased on Bandcamp Sept. 2020.
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Important Records: “Maja S. K. Ratkje is at the forefront of the musical avant-garde. Her music is bold, original and it is meant for sharing. At its heart lies Ratkje’s own voice, an open door to her individual musicianship and a constant tool for realigning her work with natural expressions and human truths. On Mara,
Cellist Marianne Baudouin Lie’s solo album on Particular Recordings. Atlantis, Utopia and Ulvedrømmer is a project where cellist Marianne Baudouin Lie plays works for solo cello and her own voice. These works explore speech and the singing voice as an extension of the instrument’s sound world and expression. The cello is the instrument that may
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2020; dur: 25′; An opera for children 0-3 years old
Orpheus’ Comfort, opera for babies / Orfeus’ trøst, opera for babyer Read More »
The well-known visual artist Hanne Borchgrevink presents her project that questions how a picture can be described by sound, so that the listener and observer can experience the connection between picture and sound. The work was originally presented inn the gallery «OSL contemporary» in Oslo, November 2017. The three graphics were shown together with earphones
2019; dur: 19′; String orchestra; Score at Wise Music Classical
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“I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures,” is a quote from Anne Frank’s diary, the book on which The Beauty That Still Remains is based. These are thoughts we must all take heed of, confronting injustice that does not strike directly at
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“The first opened with an introduction that from anyone else i might have called tentative (nothing Ratkje ever does is tentative), a quietly demonstrative collection of lower-case squeaks, scrapes, scratches, thuds, clunks and tinkles set within a highly reverberant soundspace. This bewitchingly established the atmosphere for a remarkable sequence that followed: Ratkje sporadically enunciating words
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Maja S. K. Ratkje: A Dismantled Ode To The Moral Value Of Art · Lasse Thoresen: Land of your love · Georg Friedrich Haas: Hertervig-Studien Aurora: “Sometimes you come across music that you think you have never heard before. As a performer you open the score, and you realize that this time you are dealing
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Based upon Ratkje’s music created for the ballet Sult (Hunger) by profiled director Jo Strømgren for the Norwegian National Ballet, this is a departure from records and live settings normally associated with Maja S. K. Ratkje as a solo performer, as we find her placed behind a modified, wiggly and out of tune pump organ,
“Det låter fantastisk bra, også ut av sin opprinnelige sammenheng, med en utpreget taktilitet”
Sult album reviews in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish Read More »
The Quietus: Ratkje has produced a rare recording that balances beautiful, uncanny song, rich, acoustic composition and startling originality in equal measure.
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