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- ...into that good night
- 20 Norwegian Piano Miniatures
- 21 Marches for the 21st Century
- Adventura Anatomica
- Adventura Botanica
- All Men Are Pigs
- All Music At Once
- An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music Vol.4 - a Fourth A-Chronology 1937-2005
- And sing...
- Atlantis, Utopia & Ulvedrømmer
- audiotion - sonic tribute to Takashi Miike
- Auf dem Dach der Welt - Frei nach Alexander Kluge
- Avant Joik: Live in Bergen
- Avantometric Attachments 2002
- Ballads
- Being for the Benefit of Kafé Hærverk!
- Blixter Toad
- Blood Inside
- Blood, Muscle & Air: The Intimate Voice
- Call me
- Celadon
- Come Away Death
- Concepts of Sorrows & Dangers
- Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
- 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
- Echo Chamber 3.0/Ekkokammer 3.0
- 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
- HUS
- 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
- Maja S. K. Ratkje: Works for String Orchestra
- MAJAAP
- Malleus Maleficarum Maximum
- MARA
- 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
- Selected Solo Works, Vol. 1
- 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
- Vannstand
- 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
- 08/05/21 - 26/09/21 Maja S. K. Ratkje in Arendal at Bomuldsfabriken
- 21/09/21 - 22/09/21 POING, Maja S. K. Ratkje and Finn Iunker in Oslo at Frogner kino
- 25/09/21 Forsvarets stabsmusikkorps in Oslo at Ridehuset
- 25/09/21 Kirsti Huke, Petter Vågan and KORK in Oslo at Oslo Konserthus
- 25/09/21 Avant Joik in Stuttgart at Kunstverein Wagenhalle
Category Archives: Mixed media/Vinyl/Other shapes
Avant Joik: Live in Bergen
Bergen Kunsthall: «Live in Bergen» captures Avant Joik’s two amazing concerts during the opening weekend of Joar Nan- go’s Festival Exhibition at Bergen Kunsthall in 2020. The album is based on the recordings from two con- certs held at Landmark, … Continue reading
Vannstand
Motvind records: ’Vannstand’ (Sea Level) is a tribute to the slowly pulsating tidal shifts along the length of the Norwegian coastline. In Vannstand children are given the opportunity to reflect and respond musically to their relationship with the coast, the … Continue reading
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Corona lockdown concert for TUSK Festival 2020
Still photo from concert film by Marte Ingeborg Haltli and Elias Habbestad Kjelsås. 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 … Continue reading
MARA
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 … Continue reading
HUS
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 … Continue reading
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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
Let’s Put It To Music: 20 Years Of Rune Grammofon
Rune Grammofon: “It´s no secret that Rune Grammofon founder Rune Kristoffersen is a big admirer of labels like Blue Note, Impuls, ECM, 4AD and Factory, to mention some labels with strong visual identities. But we can´t recall another label that … Continue reading
ENID BLYTON – Fünf Freunde Erzählen Kindergeschichten
Fluxus release which include work by Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg, Wataru Kasahara, C. Mehrl Bennett, Maja S. K. Ratkje and Polizei-Diensthund Hjuler. Exists in three more or less extremely limited different versions. Also cassette! Continue reading
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Das Kepler-452b-Pre-Sequel
Fluxus release which include work by Maja S. K. Ratkje, Jonathan Meese and Kommissar Dionysos und Ariadne. Exists in four(?) more or less extremely limited different versions: Maja S. K. Ratkje / Jonathan Meese / Kommissar Dionysos und Ariadne – Die … Continue reading
Focus Foucault Foccachia
Cassette release by Solveig Kjelstrup & Maskinanlegg Continue reading
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Malleus Maleficarum Maximum
Cassette release by Maja Ratkje & Bjørn Hatterud Continue reading
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Kapital & Moral
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 … Continue reading
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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
FLUXUS
In the FLUXUS series. Music by Zuzana Husarová, Mama Bär, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Maja S. K. Ratkje & Lasse Marhaug, Eighty Pound Pug, Andy Ortmann, Jörg Piringer, Cecilie Bjorgas Jordheim, Allan Revich and Andre Borges. Continue reading
Rasaka
Concert recording from Rødbrygga, Inderøy, April 2013. Maja S. K. Ratkje (voice and live electronics) with the trio SAKA: Kristoffer Berre Alberts (saxophones), Jon Rune Strøm (double bass), Dag Erik Knedal Andersen (drums). CD and Vinyl. Mixed by Lasse Marhaug.
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 ”, 2010) Mama Baer – For the Maincontrol Natalie Lauchlan – 65.7N20.3W Hannah Silva – Threshold Barbara Rapp – Kategorie … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
It still haunts me like a good nightmare, and I try in vain to recover the impression
In Roland Barthe’s Mythologies from 1957 he presents his theory on myths, which he believed to be collective conceptions of cultural phenomena constantly retold through objects and actions, until they appear as given and natural. In the exhibition It still … Continue reading
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Adventura Botanica
Rune Grammofon: “On in this botanical adventure – or “Adventura Botanica” – SPUNK join forces with one of Norway’s leading modern dance exponents, Odd Johan Fritzøe, to create a sound and movement work celebrating Darwin’s legendary, game-changing voyage to Madagascar. … Continue reading
DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Most Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory
DJ Marcelle’s mix of music featuring Maja S. K. Ratkje’s “Joy” from the album Voice (Rune Grammofon). 4 LPs.