One of the things that’s made me such a huge fan of experimental Norwegian vocalist and composer Maja S.K. Ratkje is that she doesn’t subscribe to any kind of hierarchy concerning the various styles ...

At an arts centre in Asker, a small Norwegian town a few kilometres from Oslo, a select crowd has gathered to witness a new opera. Although the audience for contemporary music is generally small, it ...

Ratkje’s upcycled pump organ, with added tubes, strings and percussion – is a fascinating instrument to decipher her literary inspiration Norwegian composer Maja SK Ratkje has immersed herself in ...

"Voice - Sculpting Sound with Maja S.K. Ratkje" is a cinematic feature documentary about the charismatic Norwegian composer, performer, innovator, multimedia artist and cult figure in various music ...

Multidisciplinary electro-acoustic composer/vocalist Maja Solveig Kjelstyrup Ratkje has, over the course of the past decade, built a significant reputation in her home country of Norway as an intrepid ...

The recent feature length documentary, Voice – Sculpting Sound…, about Norwegian composer and performer Maja S K Ratkje, somehow manages to present her complex praxis in not only an accessible way, ...

The second season of Nuts and Bolts, the podcast series focused on women in electronic music, comes to an end this week with Norwegian artist Maja S. K. Ratkje. The episode, which you can check out ...

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Composer and vocalist Maja S.K. Ratkje improvises a set for voice and electronics. Norwegian composer and vocalist Maja S.K. Ratkje improvises a site-specific set for voice and electronics at the 2013 ...

This album interleaves the composer’s own voice as a performer with the ensemble sound of CIKADA and Oslo Sinfonietta. In “And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep” the voice is pre-recorded, ...

Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, composer and performer (born Dec. 29th 1973 in Trondheim, Norway), finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo in 2000. Her music is ...