Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje & HC Gilje

Sunday 14 October 20:30 - 21:30 Performance Minoritenkirche

Audiovisual performance for voice, electronics and 18 LED screens (2012). The closing act of the festival is the new collaboration by the Norwegian composer and performer Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje and visual artist HC Gilje. The interior of the church is brought to life by an arc of very bright, flickering LED screens, which also serve as a dynamic set design for the expressive voice and stunning vocal and electronic explorations of Maja Ratkje.



Voice - Sculpting Sound with Maja Ratkje (footage demo) from ijb on Vimeo.



Maja Ratkje and Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O))) live at Bad Bonn Kilbi 2010 from Cédric Perler on Vimeo.

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Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje & HC Gilje

 Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (NO) is an internationally renowned composer whose works are performed by Klangforum Wien and the Oslo Sinfonietta. She is a founding member of Norway’s most respected improvisational units, SPUNK, Fe-mail and Agrare, and is active as a singer/vocal performer, an electronics player and as a studio engineer. She performs as a soloist and in collaborations with Jaap Blonk, Joëlle Léandre, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Stephen O’Malley, Lasse Marhaug, POING, Trinacria, and others. HC Gilje (NO) works with installations, live performance, set design and single-channel video. For the past five years Gilje has focused on animated light/shadows, projected light objects and projected light spaces.   www.vimeo.com/17398880 www.vimeo.com/12615779