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- ...into that good night
- 21 Marches for the 21st Century
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- All Men Are Pigs
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- An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol.4 - a Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
- And sing...
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Auf dem Dach der Welt - Frei nach Alexander Kluge
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Celadon
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- Crepuscular Hour
- CyberArts 2003: International Compendium Prix Ars Electronica
- Cyborgic
- Danse Macabre
- Das Kepler-452b-Pre-Sequel
- Das Wohltemperierte SPUNK
- Defragmental
- Den øverste toppen på en blåmalt flaggstang
- Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
- Deviate From Balance
- Dissolution Tapes
- DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Most Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory
- Drono
- En aldeles forferdelig sykdom
- EN/OF 001-030 Catalog
- ENID BLYTON - Fünf Freunde Erzählen Kindergeschichten
- Everything is gonna be alright
- Faces
- Festival Electronica En Abril 2003-2012
- Filtered Through Friends
- Finders
- Fjord Focus
- FLUXUS
- Focus Foucault Foccachia
- From mouth cavity to laptop
- FULL
- Gi meg en grunn til å være kvinne
- Giants of Jazz
- Gonimoblast Live - with Maja S.K Ratkje and Arve Henriksen
- Gødt Nørsk, kunstmuzik aus Norgwegen
- Help
- Hengekøye
- HØRT
- Illegal Parking
- International Rostrum of Composers 1955-1999
- It still haunts me like a good nightmare, and I try in vain to recover the impression
- JANUS
- Kantarell
- Kapital & Moral
- Kassett
- krikri 2003
- Let's Put It To Music: 20 Years Of Rune Grammofon
- LIGHT
- listen...and tell me what it was
- Live in Molde
- Looking on Darkness
- Maja S. K. Ratkje In Dialogue with Eugeniusz Rudnik
- MAJAAP
- Malleus Maleficarum Maximum
- Maximum Metal Vol. 127
- meow nim xluf minus w-moan ulf men equals nixon
- 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
- Oh No Love, You’re Not Alone
- Orra
- Passing Images
- Pig Magic
- Planet POING
- Poke It With A Stick / Joining The Bots
- Polish Radio Experimental Studio Revisited 1998-2018
- Post-Human Identities
- Rasaka
- River Mouth Echoes
- Rolex
- Runeology 4
- Safe as Milk Festival 05 sampler CD
- Sailing To Byzantium
- Scrumptious Sabotage
- Shamelessly Exciting
- Shockadelica
- Sinus Seduction
- Slime Zone
- Snowblind
- Snydelig
- Solveigs Lied Remixed
- some cassettes with Arve Hjalmars
- SOUN
- Sporlaust
- Stalker
- Still Eating Ginger Bread for Breakfast – The 20th Anniversary Concert
- String Quartets vol IV: Schubert-Ratkje-Britten-Haydn
- Sult
- Super Street 7 "How To Make Brains"
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (CD)
- Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
- teip
- Tempo! 10
- Tender Love Is A Bitch
- The Beauty That Still Remains
- The CD Electric Leak - the North
- The Dalston Shroud
- The Rose Has Teeth In The Mouth Of A Beast
- The Sound of Science featuring Jeffrey Zeigler
- Through The Looking-Glass
- Travel Now Journey Infinitely
- Treasure Hunt
- Trouble in Paradise
- Turntable Surface Fireball 2
- Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep
- Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown
- Utflukt: LYD
- Variations over Variations
- Ventemesteren
- Voice
- Voice (LP)
- 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
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Upcoming shows
- 27/06/20 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Arendal at Bomuldsfabriken
- 04/07/20 Maja S. K. Ratkje & Lasse Marhaug in Oslo at Nasjonal Jazzscene – Victoria
- 16/07/20 Maja S. K. Ratkje and Stian Westerhus in Molde at Plassen
- 27/07/20 Frode Haltli and Maja S. K. Ratkje in Vågå at Gammel-Kleppe
- 16/09/20 Ensemble Intercontemporain soloists in Paris at Cité de la musique, salle des concerts
Category Archives: Maja’s top 10
Sult
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, … Continue reading
And sing…
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 … Continue reading
Crepuscular Hour
Crepuscular Hour was originally commissioned for a performance at the Ultima festival 2010 in Uranienborg church, Oslo. The work is composed for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians and concert organ. All performers surround the audience, and are amplified … Continue reading
Das Wohltemperierte SPUNK
Rune Grammofon: “At one minute past eight in the evening of the twentieth of January, 2001, the Norwegian quartet SPUNK began playing a drone in the key of B, inaugurating a project that would weave into their musical lives for … Continue reading
River Mouth Echoes
Tzadik: “Maja Ratkje is a remarkable vocalist and composer based in Norway. Her work ranges from orchestral and chamber works to electronics, improvisation and creative combinations of all of the above. This special collection of Maja’s work showcases several aspects … Continue reading
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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Syklubb fra Hælvete (LP)
Debut album, released on pink vinyl, limited edition of 500 copies, now sold out. Made through pure improvisation with no pre-recorded sound at the starting point. Old school noise. Thurston Moore loves it: “Out of Norway comes the most exciting … Continue reading
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Voice
Rune Grammofon: “The debut solo album from SPUNK member Maja Ratkje will secure her a place among the finest experimental singers. From the weird and furious to the enchanting and beautiful, this is an album rich in atmosphere, colour and … Continue reading
Det eneste jeg vet er at det ikke er en støvsuger
Rune Grammofon: “Improvisation from four young female musicians with backgrounds from jazz, classical, contemporary, rock and country. Weird, wonderful and completely beyond categorisation, the quartet was formed in 1995. This is their debut recording.” Tracks: 1. tapeunderlaget 2. hornkonserten 3. … Continue reading
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