Thoughts.

Lyrics&spoken word, acoustic guitar by Fabio Zigante aka misS xoX
Words&Spoken, mixing by Ilaria Boffa
pic by Andrea Venerus

Tutto il Tempo/All the Time

'...alle volte voli alle volte cadi sembra la stessa cosa cambia il finale ed il bruciore tra le mani perché nell'attimo che cadi hai tutto il tempo di guardare hai tutto il tempo di capire di vedere dove sei di vedere che ci sei.....

e nell’attimo che cadi tutto scorre e non hai più confini. E forse doveva andare così, bisognava volare, bisognava cadere per sentire oltre, per andare oltre. Poi cos’è lo spazio? Il vuoto che sta fuori, quello che sta dentro di noi e come lasciarlo lì, senza colmarlo per dargli senso e dimensione.
mi sono girata, non ti ho più visto. Ho guardato la terra franare e sono saltata. Eri ancora là.

… at times you fly and at times you fall, it feels the same but the ending changes … your burning hands … because the moment you fall you have all the time to look at things, all the time to understand and see where you are, to see you are there, still …

and the moment you fall, everything flows, limits disappear. And maybe it had to be this way, we had to fly and fall, to feel beyond, go beyond. And in the end what’s space? The outer void and the inner one and how to leave it there, empty, to shape it and make sense of it.
I turned around, I didn’t see you. I watched the earth sliding down under my feet and I jumped. You were there, still.'

Tutto il Tempo

The recording of "SIRKELSALME - a concert" by Monica Aasprong (text and also reading one of the voices) and Maja S. K. Ratkje (voice, live music and composition. From Oslo Poetry Festival at Kunstnernes Hus August 2013.

SIRKELSALME

包囲する琴 (ambient koto)

Gone

Excerpt from the B-side of the 'Albatross' cassette, to be released in September.

Albatross

Grant Evans - India Ink Mirror (excerpt)

A Sea Made For Us

elektro-medidation-20201214

taken from the project 'mineral veins' (dissolves)  natural substances breaking down under environmental pressures, interactions and distortions. 

(recorded using JrF d-series hydrophones & adapted geophones)

mineral veins | Lugnas Dissolve (extract) - headphones / speakers needed

Without Her

O.V.   https://soundcloud.com/noirmoderne/geometry-of-fear

Noir Moderne - Geometry Of Fear (Senglar No-Fear Rmx)

Woozy Spellz

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.