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This is a private gallery, pictures shall not be used or copied without permission. Looking for press photos? They are found under the headline "facts, biography and press material -in english" in the main menu. Here's a short cut: •short cut for press photos! Sonic Scope Quarterly #5 Autumn 2005 >For contemporary visual art SSQ#5 Contains Photography, Drawings, Illustration And Design Work From: Charles LaReau, Chippy (Heung-Heung Chin), Diogo Valério, Imax, Kitundu, Koji Asano, Laracrafts, Maja Ratkje, Manuel Mota, Marc Behrens, Mariana Dias da Cunha, MOrph3u, Nick Delaney, Paulo Raposo, Paz Boïra, Pedro Almeida, Philip Sherburne, Ten. Download the mag in .pdf for free here: •Grain of Sound
| news from maja 27.09.2009: Music for the green horn! Norwegian article and video clip › comment (3), read or post 06.08.2009: I'm on twitter! User name: majaratkje 13.07.2009: Cyborgic: /maja-ratkje_-cyborgic.jpg) This release is found in Rune Grammofon's subcatalogue for vinyl releases only. This new label is called The Last Record Company. Cyborgic is a solo release, featuring Maja on voice and electronics. Recorded live. 500 copies only! More info here. 16.04.2009: new CD: SPUNK: kantarell /rcd-2085---spunk_-kantarell.jpg) release date 20.04.09 on rune grammofon! 19.01.2009: River Mouth Echoes nominated for ’Norwegian Grammy’. Norwegian info: Spellemannprisen deles ut førstkommende lørdag. Kanskje litt besynderlig at juryen for kategorien 'årets samtidskomponist' er NKFs musikkfaglige utvalg, i og med at det som gis ut på plateselskapet Aurora (som også er nominert) faller under deres vurderinger. 14.01.2009: Annual newsletter for new years 2009 is out. Send me your email if I don't have it and if you want it. 05.11.2008: Congratulations USA! 02.11.2008: Stockhausen performance on BBC3 /25---08-Set-Sail-for-The-Sun-_8044546.jpg) The performance of Aus den Sieben Tagen was a coproduction between the Sonic Arts Network and BBC Radio. The entire concert was sent over the radio. Perhaps it will be released soeday. Was very exciting! 16.08.2008: Updates on River Mouth Echoes. I have finally done some updating here, check this out: A list of record reviews. (No slaugthers so far...Or maybe one. Try and find it!) There's also some new interviews in English, French, German and Norwegian further up under 'text' in the main menu. Fantastic response so far on this album! Many thanks to all those who support me. 24.04.2008: Du kan bestille River Mouth Echoes i NORGE her. (looop.no) 17.04.2008: River Mouth Echoes at Boomkat here. 17.04.2008: Here it is. /ratkjeRiverMouth.jpg) 18.02.2008: Composer in residence this summer in North Norway. This is a great festival with all sorts of music. Here's their web: Nordland Musikkfestuke. 18.02.2008: An upcoming CD! It's now official. Have a look under "upcoming releases": Tzadik.com 18.02.2008: Another upcoming CD. (Less surprising though:) Trinacria on Myspace 10.01.2008: all Ears 2008! /allears2008.jpg) Yes! The festival starts today. This is a pict from the program release concert a week ago. Check out the program hereall Ears website 20.11.2007: teip /teipfront_1.jpg) check list of recordings for more info. 02.10.2007: Looop! It's time to check out looop.no 10.09.2007: Trinacria Norway Tour. More info at Triancria's MySpace site. 20.07.2007: "Arcana II" available now from Downtown Music Gallery /arcanaii.jpg) "In his preface to the first Arcana: Musicians on Music (2000), avant-garde composer and saxophone player John Zorn wrote: "This book exists to correct an unfortunate injustice, the incredible lack of insightful critical writing about a significant generation of the best and most important work of the past two decades." That the injustice was repaired by that collection was happily affirmed by its subsequent success. The range of writing--from the technical to the aphoristic/diaristic--demonstrated that sometimes critical writing on music can inspire as much as it can explicate. As Zorn acknowledged, though, Arcana was also a first step. Now Arcana II, also edited by Zorn, extends the scope of its predecessor, compiling further essential writing by luminaries of contemporary improvisation and composition such as Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Sylvie Courvoisier, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas, Annie Gosfield, Jim O'Rourke, Milford Graves, Zeena Parkins, Bill Laswell and Uri Caine. Volume 2 includes essays by: Christopher Adler, Mick Barr, Borah Bergman,Lisa Bielawa, Uri Caine, Noah Creshevsky, Steve Coleman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Chris Dench, Dave Douglas, Trevor Dunn, Jason Eckardt, Jewlia Eisenberg, Annie Gosfield, Milford Graves, Carla Kihlstedt, Lukas Ligeti, Jose Maceda, Ernesto Martinez, Butch Morris, Jim O'Rourke, Evan Parker, Zeena Parkins, Maja Ratkje, Marina Rosenfeld, Ned Rothenberg, Trey Spruance, JG Thirlwell, Matt Welch, Yamataka Eye" 22.03.2007: The Wire’s April issue features Maja with big interview. Also available an Agrare video demo at the 'web exclusive' part of their home page. Look here! (This movie is also out on YouTube now.) 04.03.2007: Agrare performs in Oslo March 9.-11. /agrare_1_1.jpg) More info here! And Stockholm March 22.-23. (Kulturhuset) 26.02.2007: spark eller sleiv? (NO) Frode har faatt en svärt positiv anmeldelse i Morgenbladet, se her ! Men hva har egentlig den kommentaren om meg der aa gjöre? Syns det er skikkelig ekkelt... Hva er motivet? Slik jeg ser det er det ikke mange alternativer: 1. Journalisten syns jeg faar alt for mye oppmerksomhet, og 2. at det skyldes maaten jeg framstilles paa paa bilder. Og 3. at han maatte finne paa noe subjektivt böll for aa kunne höste ovasjoner for sin frekkhet, det holder jo ikke lenger at en anmelder bare skriver om musikk. Vel, uansett sender jeg en stor hilsen til alle som leser norsk fra Österrike, hvor jeg er i full gang med aa innstudere et nytt verk med Klangforum Wien, kanskje verdens beste samtidsorkester! De har visst ikke jobbet med noen norske för. Det er fryktelig spennende! (Og blir garantert forbigaatt i norske medier. De er jo generelt ikke interessert naar jeg gjör noe saa uspektakulärt som aa skrive et partitur.) Norske bokstaver kommer senere... 18.02.2007: Trinacria. /trinacriaPRESSweb.jpg) No longer a secret, we will play our first concert the opening night of the Inferno festival in Oslo. (This Press picture is now found in high res. under 'pictures' here on my web.) 16.01.2007: Greetings from All Ears! /allears-styret.jpg) We are celebrating. Thank you for showing up. 06.01.2007: Pitchfork reviews Adventura Anatomica: here 02.01.2007: HAPPY NEW YEAR! May 2007 be the year the leaders of this world finally cleans up after themselves, the enviromental issues being on a point of no return. 16.11.2006: Download noisy ringtone by Ratkje/Melin to your phone! in more info here (seems like this is a norwegian feature...) 12.11.2006: New Swedish interview in Tidningen Kulturen 10.11.2006: new CD with Fe-mail and Carlos Giffoni: Northern Stains /femailGiffoniStains_1.jpg) released on important records 19.10.2006: Illegal Parking, new vinyl by Ratkje/Melin. /illegalparking.jpg) You can now order this limited vilnyl from the great label Kning Disk: here! 10.10.2006: Watch Fe-mail music video from Blixter Toad. asphodel download page 30.09.2006: Listen to Adventura Anatomica on Boomkat: /maja-aa.jpg) Boomkat.com 17.09.2006: YouTube bootleg, Maja live. /Maja1_1.jpeg) solo in Paris. Parts from this free improvised voice-noise concert is recorded on the record Stalker. 15.09.2006: Maja on myspace. (Can't believe I'm doing this...) www.myspace.com/majaratkje 30.08.2006: Agrare, new performance: /agrare_1.jpg) Agrare performs "Carrying our ears and eyes in small bags" in Malmø, then other places in Sweden. Video still by Kathy Hinde. Last performance so far, and very nice review here. 01.08.2006: Stygg overskrift! "Eksperimentell kvinneglam". Adresseavisen anmelder konsert med Fe-mail og Pekka Kuusisto. Jeg har ikke lest selve anmeldelsen ennå, men jeg spiser hatten min om den ikke er skrevet av en fyr. Ikke rart man sliter med rekrutteringen av damer når det ligger på dette saklighetsnivået hos de som får betalt for å vurdere musikk profesjonelt. Synd for Adresseavisen. (Sorry, Norwegian only, this is a remark on a primitive headline in a local newspaper, concerning women and noise.) 22.07.2006: WTBTN Fe-mail is proud to participate in this project: wtbtn. Congratulations to Ninah Pixie! 22.07.2006: All other subjects. Here you are welcome to post stuff that doesn't belong to the other headlines. (For the future this will be fixed in another way!) 16.07.2006: a libanese musician`s blog: mazenkerblog 05.07.2006: Voluptuous Vultures on CD! /vv2_1.jpg) Fe-mail's album, released as a 10" on PsychForm records last year is now available on CD including more music as well. For order info contact psychform (at) hotmail (dot) com. 05.04.2006: cheers from Svalbard! /majaslahjul2_1.JPG) 79 degrees north 29.03.2006: blixter toad! /88.main.jpg) it's here, it's here!!! Fe-mail's new double cd out on asphodel (US). Already reviewed in The Wire (issue 266). 22.03.2006: TONO-debatten. Jeg bare måtte skrive noe her. (Sorry, this is Norwegian!) 22.03.2006: a limited picture vinyl: STALKER /cover_1.jpg) out on important records (US). 14.03.2006: John Hegre & Maja Ratkje: Ballads. /ballads_1.jpg) New album out soon. It's not what you think... More info here. (And check review in Vital Weekly!) 06.02.2006: In these blog times. As you see this news column is now open for comments and dialogue with you. I will see how this works for a period. 06.02.2006: mp3. I have recently started to publish strange and unreleased stuff under 'mp3' in the main menu. The goal is to fill this page up with concert bootlegs, unfinnished and wierd recordings, compositions that are history or under question etc. This is just a start. 23.01.2006: SPUNK news: /krumelur.jpg) Aniversary memorial volume is ready. You can order it from SPUNK's manager! SPUNK has a new website (made by Kristin in SPUNK):spunkmusic.com 03.01.2006: Planet POING out now! /planetpoing.jpg) Works by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje, Sachiyo Tsurumi, Lars Petter Hagen, Áki Ásgeirsson and Jezper Holmen. 22.12.2005: Program ready for All Ears 2006, Oslo Jan 12.-15. /majalasse.JPG) (photo by jan Davis) All Ears 2006 08.11.2005: adventura anatomica /anatomica2.jpg) A new performance by Ratkje, Karl Hansen and Odd Johan Fritzøe. Premiere at Black Box in Oslo Nov. 17. (photo by Erik Berg.) 08.11.2005: Here it is!!!! /RCD2048_1.jpg) SPUNK: en aldeles forferdelig sykdom 17.10.2005: News from www.spunkmusic.com: Would you like to contribute to SPUNKS 10 year anniversary memorial volume? Send your contribution to hildb@spunkmusic.com. Deadline: Dec 15. 10.07.2005: New Fe-mail album!! /alb-femail-pfr05.jpg) "Voluptuous Vultures" will be released on PsychForm records in September. Will be three different releases: Standard vinyl, special edition with vinyl (30 copies only!) and eventually cd. Pre-orders now accepted. Don't hestitate! PsychForm.com 27.06.2005: new record with Jaap Blonk! /posthuman.jpg) electric voices, already available from www.subdist.com 05.05.2005: greetings from China! /18.jpg) (with DJ Dee and chinese dancers) 04.10.2004: music for loving: /out_now.jpg) see 'recordings' for more info! 22.08.2004: Nor Noise /nornoise.jpg) - a DVD and CD double pack, now available from [OHM] records www.ohmrecords.no. Contains a documentary on noise with exclusive interviews and concert clips by international artists and a CD compilation of not yet heard Norwegian noise music. More info under 'recordings'. 28.03.2004: A place in Germany called SPUNK! /majaogspunk.JPG) Thanks to Morten for sending me this picture from last year. 03.12.2003: SPUNK's new homepage: click here for short cut! 28.01.2002: Astrid Lindgren, the author of the phantastic books about Pippi Longstocking and the major source of inspiration for my group SPUNK is dead, 94 years old. She died quietly in her home in Sweden. Her impact on millions of children will live on! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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