Maja S. K. Ratkje & Stian Westerhus: Die elektrische oper
Norwegian voice and sound performer, and composer Maja S.K. Ratkje and also Norwegian guitarist, jazz, avantrock and noise musician, and composer Stian Westerhus are long time collaborateurs, their Die Elektrische Oper project is though as far from their previous acoustic chamber collaborations as they could come. As high from low and as brutal from tender, but still loving. Nuanced, cracked and pulverised from the smooth and cold. Chaotic roaring firesome from the harmonically well tended. Explosively potent from the kept and controlled. But is it opera? Armed with just their voices and heaps of interconnected wiring the fearless duo seeks to redefine just that. Both play on electronics, effects and hardware and Maja with voice.
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