Maja S. K. Ratkje »Solo Voice and Live Electronics« | Giga-Hertz Award

Maja S. K. Ratkje »Solo Voice and Live Electronics«
Live improvisation, ca. 20'
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje has, since the end of the 1990s established a name in the scenes of noise, free improv and live electronics. Her main instrument being her own voice extended with an always changing array of electronic tools, first heard in groups such as SPUNK (which still performs), and as a soloist, starting with the release of her debut solo album »Voice« in 2002.
The set-up that Ratkje uses today is the same as shown in the awarded work »Corona Lockdown Concert for TUSK Festival 2020«: Ratkje’s voice through analogue and digital devices through a soundcard connected to computer with various software that is custom made for Ratkje in close collaboration with Norwegian developer Øyvind Brandtsegg. Ratkje records parts of her vocals while performing, and manipulates these voice recordings or samples at the same time as she is vocalising together with what she hears. Everything is created in real-time, so no concert will be the same.
- Maja S. K. Ratkje
Credits:
ZKM | Hertz-Labor /// ZKM Hertz-Lab
Ludger Brümmer
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Dominik Kautz
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Sebastian Schottke
Klangregie /// Sound Direction
Jakob Schreiber, Manuel Urrutia
Tontechnik /// Sound Technology
Hans Gass
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Christina Zartmann
Schnitt & Kamera ///
Editing & Camera
Xenia Leidig
Kamera /// Camera
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[@iakamuri]

I just like this performance very much!

[@violinsinthevoid4579]

Beautiful and evocative! An underrated sound artist / noise musician.

[@UlrichLudat]

Too much electronics ... too little voice ... no substance (musically and lyrically). What's the point? Does "solo" refer to the self-promotion of the female self-promoter who has absolutely nothing to tell the world?

[@deoclicianookssipinvieira5858]

Incel, get lost! "Solo Voice and Live Electronics," It says! -- Your rant is akin to wanting to marry only a virgin. Anything involving a microphone is already electronic.

[@UlrichLudat]

@@deoclicianookssipinvieira5858 No, my boy, only when electricity flows through something (e.g. a microphone) does it become electronic. // Otherwise, I recommend that you take a course in politeness before you post here again and pretend to be clever with weird metaphors. //

[@alternatv1997]

You such a polite young man . Who knew self-promoters self-promoted...even "female" ones, whatever that had to do with anything. You just show your ignorance, cause if you knew anything about her you'd know she uses her voice on plenty projects and are more than capable using it. That she didn't think this project needed more voice when shes a great vocal performer only tells me she knows what every project needs. "Has absoutely nothing to tell the world"...Again; you have seriously not checked out her catalogue,and we cant all use our energy telling people they have nothing to tell the world. Unpolite,dumb and pointless

[@KHATIUFO]

Yes baby yes give it to me❤️‍🔥🫶🏼🕊️🛸⚡️🈴beautiful