Works/Scores

(How) To Play The Ocean

/ Blog, Large ensembles /

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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Pedunculate

/ Blog, Chamber music /

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

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I Cannot Heave My Heart Into My Mouth (Cordelia’s Lament)

/ Blog, Chamber music, Chamber music with voice/Vocal music / ,

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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All Losses Are Restored

/ Blog, Electronic music, Full length album features, Maja's top 10, Mixed media/Vinyl/Other shapes, Recorded compositions / ,

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

/ Blog, Electronic music, Full length album features, Recorded improvisation

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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(c)ovid’s metamorphoses

/ Blog, Compilations, Electronic music, Mixed media/Vinyl/Other shapes, Rare stuff

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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RÖKKUR

/ Blog, Electronic music, Full length album features, Maja's top 10, Mixed media/Vinyl/Other shapes, Recorded compositions, Recorded improvisation /

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

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