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Maja Ratkje (NO)


She is described as the Norwegian music's "enfant terrible". Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (Trondheim, 1973), composer and performer, finished composition studies at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo. She's active as a singer/voice user and electronics player as well as studio engineer, mainly in connection with the contemporary improvisation ensemble SPUNK and the noise duo Fe-mail. Other main collaborators are Jazzkammer, POING, Lotta Melin and Jaap Blonk. Ratkje has performed her own music for Ibsen's play "Ghosts", and her exceptional voice has been heard in Icelandic film music as well as in contributions to numerous other projects. In 2003 Ratkje played a leading part in her own opera, which is based on the texts from the Nag Hammadi Library.


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