1. mai-musikk Samtidsmusiker Maja S.K. Ratkje gir ut arbeidersanger med gruppen Poing, og mener man ikke må være redd for å være politisk bare fordi man driver med kunst. I fortroppen: Komponist og musiker Maja S. K. Ratkje er ikke så glad i ordet «samtidsmusikk». – Jeg er mer glad i begrepet avantgarde. Det er […]
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“Music is communicated through interpretation, and the performers as well as the listeners are active in the process. Along with that come the circumstances like the room and the situation the music is performed in. The whole context becomes a part of the interpretation.”
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Tor Hammerø blogg: Maja S.K. Ratkje er en artist som har et helt unikt uttrykk. Her gir hun oss flere eksempler på det – både som komponist og sammen med gruppa Poing. Maja S.K. Ratkje har noe helt spesielt å fare med. Med disse to utgivelsene forteller Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje at hun er i
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Delle due rappresentazioni dell’oratorio di un’ora scarsa “Crepuscular Hour” – la prima è avvenuta nella sua Oslo nel 2010 – la norvegese Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (classe 1973) ha scelto, per l’incisione su disco, la seconda in Uk del 2012, anche trasmessa via broadcast. Il nuovo missaggio evidenzia l’adozione, non ultimo simbolica, del numero tre:
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La de Maja S. K. Ratke es una obra de escucha atenta, de colores y matices infinitos El Pais 6 JUN 2016 La compositora y cantante noruega Maja S. K. Ratkje trabaja principalmente desde tres frentes: la voz humana, la música electrónica (con querencia por su versión más ruidosa) y la inclusión de ambas en
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Si possono condividere le parole di Luca Vitali, che nel programma di sala fra l’altro individua nella musica di SPUNK una qualità olistica e il consapevole tentativo di scongiurare le insidie ricorrenti nella libera improvvisazione collettiva: «egocentrismo, incoerenza, alcuni “gesti” tipici e codificati del free jazz, mancanza di dinamica e di humor».
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Booklet text (Norwegian below): Could the act of composing include my sound as a voice performer? The two works on this album are two different answers to this question. From the moment I started to compose new classical music I have carefully worked on developing my own voice as an instrument. Improvising with others has
Med de två nya verken på albumet ”And sing…”, komponerade för sin egen röst, Cikadaensemblen och Oslo Sinfonietta under ledning av Christian Eggen, bidrar tonsättaren Maja SK Ratkje på ett överraskande sätt till årets Shakespearefirande. Det första är en avantgardistisk ljudfantasi över en förförisk replik hos Titania i ”En midsommarnattsdröm” – farlig och vacker, råstark
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Cassette release by Solveig Kjelstrup & Maskinanlegg
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Cassette release by Maja Ratkje & Bjørn Hatterud
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“When I was young, I was really quite scared of the dark. I think my parents taught me to be and I remember the deciding thing was, I turned around and said: I’m going to go to the woods at night and walk into the darkness and embrace it and if I die, I die”.
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By positioning the musicians at the perimeter and the audience at the centre, Crepuscular Hour becomes an act of materialisation. Instead of bursting outward and dispelling into the open air, sound funnels inward and solidifies – guitars react effervescently with waves of choir, while organs meld with flumes of brass and electronic noise. At certain
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Crepuscular Hour is a foreboding, toweringly ambitious and arresting new work by celebrated Norwegian composer Maja SK Ratkje, bringing the worlds of Choral music and Noise together in a way that will leave you gasping for breath. Its her first new long-form solo release since the end of the last decade, and follows extensive collaborations
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Wo soll man bei der Trondheimerin mit dem Staunen anfangen? Bei Fe-mail, ihrem radikalen Duo mit Hild Sofie Tafjord? Beim Miteinander mit Lasse Marhaug oder Phantom Orchard? Ihren Brecht-Songs mit Poing? Bei Spunk, gipfelnd im 12-jährigen Zyklus “Das Wohltemperierte Spunk”? Bei ihrer Kollaboration mit Elfriede Jelinek und Sophie Rois beim Hörspiel “Neid”, oder der mit
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Derek Piotr’s Drono is, as its name suggests, a drone album. It emphasizes the form and durational composition of drone through unquantized, glitching samples and near-absence of rhythm. Yet this is a drone album preoccupied with mutability: the tracks are technically built on sustained harmonic centers, but they feature variation, movement and depth that transcend
“Als Abschluss des ersten Abends dürfen wir einen tollen Trip erleben, mit Maja Ratkje, Øyvind Brandtsegg und Siv Øyunn Kjenstad mit ihrem noch jungen, Experimental-Projekt Brak Rug, das aus einer spontanen Idee heraus entstand und bislang nur sehr wenige Auftritte erlebte.”
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The combination of the trio POING and vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje has been referred to as among the best, boldest and most innovative players in the Norwegian music community. On their new album, “Kapital&Moral”, they present a selection of songs from the past century that address the theme of the impact that capital has
Maja S.K. Ratkje lager musikk slik jeg vil ha det, bortenfor det lettvinte, opplagte og sleipe. Arild Andersen, Aftenposten 05.04.2016 Maja S.K. Ratkje er vanskelig å møte med likegyldighet. Hun formidler alvor gjennom ukonvensjonell form og vekker interesse gjennom det særegne. De gangene jeg har sett henne på scenen, har musikken hatt et dramatisk tilsnitt
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“Det er forfriskende uironisk – morsomt og gravalvorlig på en gang”
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