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Manifesto
First published in Norwegian in Parergon 1999. With cyberspeed we stumble around in the universe of today, only to find that to a high degree it is constructed for individuals. Everything is so...
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This interview was made in The Wire’s issue for March 2003 – edited from the...
ON SPUNK AND FEMALE BEHAVIOUR Why is your group called SPUNK? And what does your obsession with Pippi Longstocking come from? The origin comes from a Pippi Longstocking book, where ‘spunk’ is a key...
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Edited from an interview with the Greek zine Strange In Stereo
From what I have read you started off academic studies in music composition at the university and then went on to improvising. Is that true? What inner need led you that radical change? It’s not a...
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Listed: 25 Suaves + Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists determined by our favorite artists. This week: 25 Suaves and Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje. (…) Norwegian singer, improviser, and...
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Sound is movement
This text was originally written for the program booklet for the dance performance Adventura anatomica which was premiered in Oslo Nov. 17th 2005 Let us say that the artistic creative process is a...
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On Henri Bergson and Improvisation
“Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje is a contemporary Norwegian composer and performer whose haunting sound pieces deal predominantly with an exploration of the limits of vocal technique, and its relation...
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Nine Prerequisites for Inspiration
by Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje 2006 published in Arcana II, musicians on music, edited by John Zorn This text is based on notes written for a an interdisciplinary seminar at NTNU in Trondheim,...
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UN censoring work by Ratkje in New York!
Unbelievable? Perhaps. This image shows the Norwegian Girls’ Choir at the general rehearsal in the UN hall practicing my piece, – right before the authorities stopped the whole thing. Composer Maja...
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Kutt kutt! (NO/EN)
Klipp fra en hverdagsparallellitet, hentet fra et nettintervju, notater til en forelesning og en e-postsamtale. publisert i RETT KOPI, filosofisk tidsskrift, 1/2004
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