It's got it all - haunting vocals, great tune with complementary avant-garde sonics. Great mix!

A deep, cerebral and wonderful musical adventure!

artist : Bidocea
album : EVILFRANCE "Elvifrance vs. Earsheltering"
earS100 / 2020
earsheltering.free.fr/earsheltering100.html

earsheltering celebrates both its 100th release and 16th anniversary in 2020 with a various artists release as a tribute to Elvifrance.
We are also happy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Elvifrance with this release.

Evilfrance

Bidocea_-_The 8-ball in the fifth pocket

Pointillism for sine wave No.12

Recording of the piece Micro-Shocks on 24/05/22 during the concert at the Phonos Foundation (Barcelona).

In concert there is a video projection from 10m45s to 14m40s, the music at this point is more landscape. The link to watch it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9scircGep8

Statement of intent :


This piece is inspired by the theories of Brian Massumi, and I thought it would be interesting to freely interpret his concept of micro-shock. Our daily life, full of micro-perceptions and interruptions, as dazzling as they are subtle, is also inhabited by small moments of daydreaming. Those that are necessary for assimilation, phantasms, reorientations, hope, projections... The poetic and musical inspirations will take root in these suspended temporalities for their faint nature and their slightly psychedelic sweetness. The construction of the forms tries to translate the unfolding of a dream, of a mysterious logic of associations of ideas.
 
A few flashes of daydreaming will be visible on a screen, in small touches, in counterpoint to a certain musical line. These filmed moments come from an experience. For two months, I had a hidden camera in my buttonhole with the intention of capturing the little daydreams of the people around me.

The aim here is to translate these feelings of disorientation and reorientation into music in an age where we have forgotten the importance and beauty of finding our way.

Enregistrement de la pièce Micro-Shocks le 24/05/22 lors du concert à la Fondation Phonos (Barcelone).

En concert, il y a une vidéo projection de 10m45s à 14m40s, la musique à cet endroit se veut plus paysage. Le lien pour la vidéo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9scircGep8

Note d'intention :

Cette pièce est inspirée des théories récentes du philosophe Brian Massumi, où il m’est apparu intéressant d’interpréter librement son concept de micro-choc . Notre quotidien, peuplé de micro-perceptions et d’interruptions aussi fulgurantes que subtiles, mais non moins capables d’opérer un déplacement de nos habitus, est aussi habité par des petits moments de rêverie diurne, ceux nécessaire à l’assimilation, aux fantasmes, aux réorientations, a l’espérance, aux projections... Les inspirations poétiques et musicales prendront racine dans ces temporalités suspendues pour leur nature évanouie et leur douceur légèrement psychédélique. La construction de la forme et de certains phrasés tente de traduire le dérouler d’un songe, d’une logique mystérieuse, mais avec certaines associations d’idées surprenantes. 
Quelques éclats de rêverie diurne, seront visibles sur un écran, par petite touche, en contrepoint avec certaines lignes musicales. Ces moments filmés proviennent d’une expérience, j’avais pendant deux mois en continue une caméra cachée à ma boutonnière pour essayer de capturer les petites rêveries des personnes de mon entourage.
Il s'agira ici d'aborder le concept de réorientation dans une époque où nous avons oublié l'importance et la beauté de chercher son chemin.

Merci à LOÏC VARANGUIEN DE VILLEPIN de me prêter si souvent sa voix.
Composition, vidéo : Matthieu Guillin
Une production compagnie éOle – création musicale et transdisciplinaire dans le cadre du Réseau de Création Musicale Pyrénées-Méditerranée (RCMPM)
Coproduction SACEM

Micro-shocks "Live in Phonos"

𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐠𝐞, 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐩 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐤
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐈'𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝, 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐬
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐈'𝐦 𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐨𝐟 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠
𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐨𝐤𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡 '𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐦𝐦𝐦
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐦𝐦𝐦
𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐦𝐦𝐦

Something In The Way (Nirvana cover)

https://nickashwood1.bandcamp.com/album/inside-the-body-of-a-wave

tones coalesce into a wash of colour exchanges, that shift, swell and absorb into one another, creating a wave that is ever-changing. When listening I hope for the listener to hear these small waves and exchanges coming together to create a larger meaning. 

Buchla 200e 
self made reed organ

inside the body of a wave

puke 16.2

This is a collaboration between Death Worship Hospital, and Necroviolence. "Cosmic Corpse Theory" is based on the philosophy of Philipp Mainländer, pessimism, and surgical theories.

https://deathworshiphospital.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-corpse-theory

Cosmic Corpse Theory

pray2day

omne quod refert

A track from the album Sult, to be released on the Norwegian label Rune Grammofon March 8 2019. 

Composed, performed, mixed and produced by Maja S. K. Ratkje 2018.

The music on the album is based upon the music created for the ballet Sult/Hunger by Jo Strømgren for the Norwegian National Ballett, 2018. The track titles are quotes from Knut Hamsun's novel Sult from 1890. Sung text is in Maja's made-up language for the performance. 
The instrument used in the performance and on this record is designed for Sult and built at the Norwegian Opera around an old pump organ.

Recorded by Hågen Rørmark at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, May 2018.
Co-produced by Frode Haltli.
Mastered by Morgan Nicolaysen at Propeller Mastering.

Sjå, åmioda - og ikke en lyd kom mig fra strupen

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+ L A M E N T O +

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.

Sjå, åmioda - og ikke en lyd kom mig fra strupen

Maja S. K. Ratkje

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