2025; dur:10-15′; 1+afl+pic.2+ca.3.3/4.2+pictpt.3.1/timp.3perc.hp.pf(cel)/str.;Score at Wise Music Classical How can an orchestra sound like an ocean? The rich and multi-layered sea, reconciling and disturbing, full of all types of big and small waves at once in simultaneous fractal patterns, always changing—from calm ripples to house-high swells—much alive, yet never aware of its overwhelming effect on humans […]
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2025; dur: 4:30′; Vln; Score at Wise Music Classical The oak tree is an inspiration for this piece. The oak tree is a host to a huge number of endangered species, from birds to small insects and plants, growing, breeding and dying on the tree. Oak trees play an important role in the cultural landscape
2025; dur: 11′; Accordion and Voice (One or two performers); Score at Wise Music Classical This solo piece is an uttering for sincerity and love, using a textual fragments from Shakespeare’s King Lear – in the mouth of Cordelia. The performer is asked to sing along while playing the piece. There is no demand to
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‘The Swamp’ is a get-to-know-you party where furniture is broken, wine glasses are smashed and walls are defaced with graffiti, but the living room remains more beautiful than the night before. The album is the first meeting between vocalist Maja S. K. Ratkje, guitarist Torstein Slåen and electronics artist Sigurd Ytre-Arne. With a fair dose
2021/2024; dur: 50′; Voice solo, (pic).1(ca).1(b.cl.).1/1.1.1.1/pf.perc./str.; Score at Wise Music Classical
2024; dur: 40′; A large number of Hardanger fiddle and fiddle performers, at least 7 soloist; Score at nb.no
EP with original music, composed and performed by Maja S. K. Ratkje and her two daughters Marte and Frida Haltli. The music is created for Matti Aikio’s video work with the same title. LINK TO BANDCAMP RELEASE ONLY Aikio’s work Peurakaira is a poetic and meditative portrait of – and a tribute to – Peurakaira,
We are happy to present the debut album of the duo Stian Westerhus and Maja S. K. Ratkje, two Norwegian composers and performers known to the international scene through numerous works and albums in various constellations over decades. Released 15 March 2024 Crispin Glover Records. To many of their followers’ big surprise, Stian Westerhus and
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Poesi på bristepunktet (Poetry at the Breaking Point) is a series of collaborations between author Aasne Linnestå and composer and performer Maja S. K. Ratkje with fellow musicians. The author sits onstage writing poetry in real time, projected on a large screen visible to the audience. The musicians accompany, respond to and interpret the words.
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2023; dur: 30; Wind Orch.; Score at Wise Music Classical
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With a wide range of work by sound artists and musicians, writers, filmmakers, photographers, and visual artists, @ovid’s Metamorphoses uses the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching consequences as an instrument for change, artistic and otherwise. A play on experiment across various fields of artistic practice, all featured work revolves around ideas of transmission and inspiration,
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Øra Fonogram announces the worldwide release of RÖKKUR, the joint album of Norwegian composer and performer Maja S. K. Ratkje and Icelandic ensemble Nordic Affect (Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir, Marie Stockmarr Becker, Hanna Loftsdóttir, Guðrún Óskarsdóttir). RÖKKUR on Bandcamp RÖKKUR on streaming other services Read the great album reviews here. What is ‘rökkur’? ‘Rökkur’ is the
2023; dur: 60’30; Audio file and quartet: Fl/Bsn, BCl, Vln, Vc or Hn, BTbn, Vln, Vc; Video by Hypercomf; Score at Score at nb.no
2022; dur: 16′; Orch.; Score at Wise Music Classical
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2022; dur: 10′; 2 voices, 2 loud wind instruments, 2 Medieval percussion; Score on request from Ratkje
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2021; dur: 13′; Vln or Vla; Score at Wise Music Classical
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2021; dur: 18′; Tbn solo and small or full orchestra; Both scores at Wise Music Classical
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