Name: Ballad by Maja S. K. Ratkje
Duration: 13 min 28 s
Description: A track from Fe-mail's double album Blister Toad, released on Asphodel in 2006. Fe-mail consisted of Maja S. K. Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord.

emur (2020)

for singer, saxophone, trumpet, violoncello, percussion and sampler.

performed by Fredrik Storsveen, Annie Lundgreen, Kristina Fransson, Andrine Erdal and Jonas Evenstad.

Peeking And Humming (2021)

I Nasadyia Sukta (Hymn of Creation)

II.  "...He verily knows or perchance even He knows not."

In Memoriam (2022)

What are the words to us?
Maja S. K. Ratkje

ab 26. November in der Box
https://www.luzernertheater.ch/whatarethewordstous

Mit:
Marcela Rahal
Maja S. K. Ratkje
William Green
Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Regie: Sophiemarie Won
Bühne und Kostüme: Maude von Giese
Licht: Marc Hostettler
Musikalische Einstudierung: William Green
Dramaturgie: Talisa Walser

Audioeinführung «What are the words to us?»

Hardingfelespiller og komponist Erlend Apneseth omtales som en brogygger inn i tradisjonen. Her møter musikkjournalist Audun Vinger ham for Ballade radio mellom to konserter på Riksscenen i Oslo – mens Apneseth er utvalgt «Husvarm-artist» der, og like før bestillingsverket «Herifrå» urframføres under Oslo World.

Erlend Apneseth Intervjues Av Audun Vinger / Ballade radio oktober 2023

Bantam Knock performed in Sweden during the UNM-festival. 

Bantam Knock (UNM Malmø 2014)

A track from Fe-mail's double album Blister Toad, released on Asphodel in 2006. Fe-mail consisted of Maja S. K. Ratkje and Hild Sofie Tafjord.

Ballad

HYMNUS MASCHINE (2015), for cello octet, commissioned by 
Cellolyd Festival in Lofoten. First performance in the concert  Nye lyder (New Sounds) 8.8-2015 in Lofoten.

HYMNUS MASCHINE

Track written for Collectief Walden's performance "Het Verband van Alles met Alles".

Photo by Moon Saris

Pass The HEAT (feat. Dominic Kraemer, Collectief Walden and Boy On The Moon)

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 performed worldwide by performers such as Klangforum Wien, Oslo Sinfonietta, The Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Fretwork, TM+, Cikada and Vertavo string quartets, Quatuor Renoir, Ticom, crashEnsemble, Pearls for Swine Experience, Torben Snekkestad, Marianne Beate Kielland, SPUNK, Frode Haltli, POING and many more. Portrait concerts with her music has been heard in Toronto and Vienna, she has been composer in residence at festivals like Other Minds, San Francisco, Nordland Music Festival, Bodø, and the Avanti! summer festival.

Ratkje has received awards such as the International Rostrum of Composers in Paris for composers below 30 years of age, the Norwegian Edvard prize (work of the year) twice, second prize at the Russolo Foundation, and in 2001 she was the first composer ever to receive the Norwegian Arne Nordheim prize. Her solo album «Voice», made in collaboration with Jazzkammer, got a Distinction Award at Prix Ars Electronica in 2003.

Ratkje is active as a singer/voice user and electronics player as well as studio engineer, as a soloist or in groups such as SPUNK or Agrare. Other collaborations are with Jaap Blonk, Joëlle Léandre, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Stephen O’Malley, Stian Westerhus, Lasse Marhaug, POING and the metal band Trinacria. Ratkje has performed her own music for films, dance and theatre, installations, and numerous other projects. In 2003, she played a leading part in her own opera, based on the texts from the Nag Hammadi Library. In 2005 she performed the voice solo part of her first big work for orchestra, commissioned by Radio France. She has also been soloist with Klangforum Wien and Oslo Sinfonietta.

Her scores are found at the Norwegian Music Information Centre and her records are released on Tzadik, Rune Grammofon, ECM, Kontrans, Asphodel, Important Records and others.

Ballad

Maja S. K. Ratkje

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