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Kineticism and Inclusiveness In The Music Of Maja Ratkje

That Hid: Movement: a musical term yet seldom does one truly get a sense of movement, as in aliveness, that one witnesses in our natural, or “real” world in art — that beautiful sense of chaotic activity of the kinetic street or beach or forest; wind, buses, excited children, birds flapping, branches swaying, fluorescents flashing, […]

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On River Mouth Echoes

Release text by Hild Borchgrevink. In Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje’s musical atmosphere the weather can change in a split second. The dynamics of the music range between extreme objectivity and control, and equally extreme spontaneity. Clear, sharp contrasts frequently form the point of departure in this music. To begin with the sound is held in

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On Henri Bergson and Improvisation

-In my opinion, music is so far from language, it is actually incorrect to say that music is a language of it’s own. It is entirely different by nature. Language is however connected to the way we look at scores, and the academia on music is often so connected to the way music is represented in language/score that sound is often forgotten.

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Norwegian sound artist Maja Ratkje threw it into overdrive in 2005

Chicago Reader: Norwegian sound artist Maja Ratkje threw it into overdrive in 2005. Fe-mail, her noise duo with Hild Sofie Tafjord, released its best and broadest album, Voluptuous Vultures (PsychForm), on which Ratkje’s otherworldly vocal improvisations and Tafjord’s blubbery French horn lines enhanced lacerating electronics; on Post-Human Identities (Kontrans), a duo album with the great

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Maja Ratkje and the end of music

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.”

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Big noise from Norway

Nordic Sounds:
The contemporary music world and the noise world are both a kind of subculture, but it is still rare for them to meet as they do in Ratkje. Her preoccupation with “sound” – sound for its own sake, rather than aesthetic principles in a more academic sense – makes her own listening and creating unusually all-embracing.

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Prestigious award to Maja Ratkje

MIC: Vital and energetic composer/performer Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje receives an Award of Distinction in the digital musics category at this year’s Prix Ars Electronica. 11.06.2003 | By: Tomas Lauvland Pettersen Maja Ratkje’s 2002 Rune Grammofon album Voice has earned her and compatriots Jazzkammer the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Digital

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Continuous forward motion – Maja Ratkje maintains momentum

MIC: “Voice” is the title given to Maja Ratkje’s new solo-record – a release that’s set to establish her as one of Norway’s foremost crossover artists. Contemporary, avantgarde, electronica, noise and free improvisational vocal antics are just some of the wildly varied influences that make up her truly unique record. Says Maja to MIC’s Norwegian

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