MAJA S.K. RATKJE : Crepuscular Hour

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Format: 2LP+CD+DVD [RLP2181]
Shipping Weight: 0.78lbs
Label: Rune Grammofon

3,809円

"Double LP version. Includes CD and DVD; DVD is PAL format, region-free, with 5.1 and stereo audio. Crepuscular Hour is an epic, hypnotic one-hour piece for three choirs, three pairs of noise musicians, and church organ, to be performed in a cathedral or similar location with musicians surrounding the audience. The room fills with sound in an intense, but almost meditative hour, as the voices blend with the distortion, the noise sometimes takes over, and the organ eventually takes the music to a new level. The visual design of this concert is a play on the crepuscular rays -- rays of sunlight that appear to radiate through clouds from the point in the sky where the sun is located -- with the light filtered by the obstacles and musicians in the room. All texts are from the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of Gnostic texts discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. These texts have provided a major re-evaluation of early Christian history. This recording of a performance of the piece includes a DVD of the whole concert, beautifully directed by Kathy Hinde (DVD is PAL format, region-free, with 5.1 and stereo audio). Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje (born 1973) is quite a remarkable musician, singer, improviser, and composer. Her music has been performed worldwide by the Klangforum Wien, the Oslo Sinfonietta, the Norwegian Radio Orchestra, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Fretwork, TM+, the Cikada String Quartet, the Mivos Quartet, the Quatuor Bozzini, the Quatuor Renoir, Crash Ensemble, The Pearls Before Swine Experience, Torben Snekkestad, Marianne Beate Kielland, SPUNK, Frode Haltli, POING, and many more. Ratkje has been composer in residence at festivals like Other Minds in San Francisco; Trondheim Chamber Music Festival; Nordland Music Festival in Bodo, Norway; Avanti! Summer Festival in Finland; Bastad Chamber Music Festival; and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Ratkje is active as a singer/voice user and electronics performer and engineer, as a soloist and in groups such as SPUNK and BRAK RUG. Other collaborators include Jaap Blonk, Joelle Leandre, Ikue Mori, Zeena Parkins, Stephen O'Malley, Lasse Marhaug, POING, and many more. Ratkje has performed her own music for films, dance, theater, installations, and numerous other projects. Visual art and text are often parts of her work, in installations or staged works. She has made large gallery works with SPUNK and made music for a radio play by Elfriede Jelinek, and in 2003, she played a part in her own opera, also based on texts from the Nag Hammadi library."

Tracklist
- Vinyl
A Crepuscular Hour
B Crepuscular Hour
C Crepuscular Hour
- DVD
1 Crepuscular Hour 61:07
- CD
1 Crepuscular Hour 56:49

Companies, etc.
Recorded At ? Huddersfield Town Hall
Recorded At ? Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Filmed At ? Huddersfield Town Hall
Filmed At ? Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Filmed At ? The Big Act, Bristol
Mixed At ? NOTAM
Mastered At ? Store Studio

Credits
Cameraman [Town Hall Performace Filmed By] ? Kai Miedendorp (tracks: DVD-1), Kathy Hinde (tracks: DVD-1)
Composed By ? Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje
Conductor [Conducted By] ? James Weeks
Design ? Kim Hiorthoy
Edited By [Film Edited By] ? Kathy Hinde (tracks: DVD-1)
Engineer [Live Sound At Town Hall By] ? Alex Fiennes
Film Director [Film By], Film Director [Additional Footage Made By] ? Kathy Hinde (tracks: DVD-1)
Lighting [Installation Lighting By] ? Aideen Malone (tracks: DVD-1)
Lighting [Lights At Town Hall By] ? Johnny Marshall (tracks: DVD-1)
Liner Notes [English] ? Maja S. K. Ratkje
Mastered By ? Havard Christensen
Mixed By [Sound Mix By] ? Maja S. K. Ratkje
Performer [Performed By] ? Antoine Chessex, Hild Sofie Tafjord, Lasse Marhaug, Mark Durgan, Nils Henrik Asheim, Phil Julian, RNCM Chamber Choir, Stian Westerhus, The 24, University Of Huddersfield Chamber Choir
Producer [DVD Production By] ? Carsten Aniksdal (tracks: DVD-1)
Recorded By [Town Hall Live Recording By] ? BBC*, Thomas Hukkelberg

Notes
Standard edition limited to 430 copies.
Etching on side D

With texts from the Nag Hammadi Library
Live performance at Town Hall, Huddersfield, 20th November 10pm Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2012
Sound Mix at Notam, Oslo, Norway
Additional footage made in Bristol, UK
Installation footage shot at The Big Act, Bristol, UK
Mastered at Store Studio, Bodo, Norway