Artist: ɐɹʇsǝɥɔʌoɹdɯI ʎuxnɐɟɯʎS s,ɟǝıɥʇɯɐǝɹᗡ ǝɥ⊥ ǝuoO
Album: The Viral Tarot
For almost 15 years, The MVM has plotted to score an aural tarot deck. We even spent a year mic'ed up living a life dictated by tarot as score for a project that may someday see completion, but then again, may not.
With the incredible resource of Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble now a part of our lives, we decided to try our hands at the aural tarot again. As part of our monthly commissions, we are scoring six cards a month. These are drawn from our favorite deck, AJ Newell's What You Know But Can't Explain tarot (@wykbce on instagram). Each month the cover art for the tarot release will be a photo of the reading we received using this deck. Of course, none of these except the first is truly meaningful, because each month there will be fewer and fewer cards to draw from, as we are not replacing cards as we draw, so as not to have duplicates.
As the year progresses these scores will be recorded by EDME, but until then, we are posting the virtual instrument versions. That is what you hear here.
This first attempt at an aural tarot will take thirteen months to complete. Maybe longer, as the EDME recordings will likely be delayed a month or two after each score is completed. When those recordings are complete, our patrons (subscribers to our commission program, the folks who inspired this project to shift from desire to reality, THANKS!) will receive a physical tarot deck inspired by these scores and handcrafted by The MVM. These will likely be collaged and completely nonfunctional as actual tarot decks. Patrons will also get physical copies of all 78 scores.
For the world at large, the scores will be downloadable as PDFs here, eventually.
Each card's individual page features an image from the earliest extant tarot, the Sola Busca tarot. You can read about it here:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_Busca_tarot
You can also find the public domain images we are using.
We expect to add The Viral Tarot to EDME's repertoire, with an audience member shuffling and drawing a reading of 3, 5, or 10 cards, which EDME then performs in the order they are drawn. It is possible, maybe likely, that one of our members will provide an interpretation of the cards as they are performed.
Finally, we are looking into adding an online station to our collection of streaming radio sites, one that just randoms through the 78 tracks so folks looking for an online reading can drop into the site and listen for however many cards they need.
released January 20, 2024
Dedicated to Daniel Miller, AJ Newell, Moe Bowstern, The Damned, Entresol, Body Void, and our patrons.
Composed by Sentimental Witches
Performed by ɐɹʇsǝɥɔʌoɹdɯI ʎuxnɐɟɯʎS s,ɟǝıɥʇɯɐǝɹᗡ ǝɥ⊥ ǝuoO, being:
Alisaard Artaud Bass
Aram Cardiff Bass
Aubec, Earl of Malador Bass
Blink Bass
Caspar Last Bass
Corum Jhaelen Irsei Bass
Goldberg Burroughs Bass
Konrad Arflane Bass
Lord Erekosë Bass
Michael Kane Bass
NꙨ Moon Bass
Once A Day Bass
Rush That Speaks Bass
Sewn Up Bass
Grobbendonk Bass
BlꙬming Moon Bassoon
Budding MꙬn Bassoon
Chira White Bassoon
Ermizhad Mieville Bassoon
Honoria Cornelius Bassoon
Houd Toop Bassoon
Tabitha Stephens Bassoon
Zhinsinura Jest Bassoon
Shahi Manish Celesta
Alice Didion Cello
Alivale Harari Cello
Arkady Gilliam Cello
Brian Cello
Brom Monahan Cello
Cixin Jones Cello
Colinda Dovero Cello
Conrad Mongolfier Cello
Denys Winterset Cello
Gabrielle Palin Cello
Magna Black Cello
Ilanth Kropotkin Cello
Kid(d) Cello
Lady Gradesmor Cello
Lewis Carroll Cello
Martin Chapman Cello
Mrs. Ameila Underwood Cello
Oshbek-Uy Proudhon Cello
Roland duFrancia Cello
Shaleen Monteverdi Cello
Teeplee Cello
Xena Cleese Cello
Mistress Christia Choir Mistress
Bishop Castle Clarinet
George Wilkes Clarinet
Gilbert Slater Clarinet
Hardy Idle Clarinet
Lord Jagged Clarinet
Oonagh von Bek Clarinet
Russell Innes Clarinet
Sentimental Witches Composer
Eugene Debs Conceptualist
Alter Koshar Dancer
Ꚙna Perssꙮn Director
Kirana Fawwaz E-Flat Clarinet
Umpata Numan E-Flat Clarinet
Alan Powys English Horn
Idelba Irving English Horn
Steelhorn English Horn
Lyncie Welch English Horn
Ditto Wheeler English Horn
Verna Krause Flute
Juno Myrmidon Flute
Life Sentence Flute
Artos the Celt Flute
Bao Xinhua Flute
Duke Dorian Hawkmoon von Köln Flute
John Daker Flute
Kung Jianguo Flute
Madame Sururi Flute
Sabrina Spellman Flute
Zhu "Tuanjie-kexue" Isao Flute
Ryan Sensible French Horn
Shi Fandi French Horn
Deadlock French Horn
Blackblood French Horn
Mongrol French Horn
Hammerstein French Horn
Joe Pineapples French Horn
Kali Thorstenson Harp
Pan Xichun Harp
Rose von Bek Harp
Sam Oakenhurst Harp
Asquiol of Pompeii Horns
Badim Clausen Horns
Devi Lucas Horns
Euan Sampson Horns
Freya Thorstenson Horns
Iolinda Vanian Horns
Jochi Murdach Horns
Li Pao Horns
My Lady Charlotina Horns
Queen Ilian of Garathorm Horns
Samantha Stephens Horns
Ship Faustini Horns
Vol Nonik Lyricist
John Dee's soul entrapped in an amber homunculi Muse
Roger Penrose Muse
The Ghost Of Athanasius Kircher Muse
The Muse Kelliope Muse
Bhakta Wilson Oboe
Hu Die Oboe
Ismail ibn Mani al-Dir Oboe
Lord Mongrove Oboe
Maxim Arturovitch "Pyat" Pyatnitski Oboe
Mejink-La-Kos Scabies Oboe
Thoth White Oboe
Selim the Third Oboe
The Kerala of Travancore Oboe
Werther de Goethe Oboe
Bai McCay Percussion
Endora ℵ0'>3ῥῶ Percussion
Franik Herbert Percussion
Kiyoaki Crowley Percussion
Kuwo Bokhari Percussion
Oone the Dreamthief Percussion
Peng-ti Niven Percussion
Prince Flamadin Percussion
Clea Rhasok Piano
Iwa McChrystal Piano
Mona Jukes Piano
Bekti Vassar Piano
Budur Radwan Piccolo
Sojan Shieldbearer Piccolo
Ernest Wheldrake Poet/Lyricist
Petra vonPetra Soprano
Ghardas Valabasian Stones, All manner of Stones
Ulrich Rudric Renark Otto von Bek-Krasny Synthesizer
Busho Fromwest Timpani
Keeper of the Wampum Timpani
Ulric vꚚn Bek Timpani
Baal Black Timpani
Duke of Queens Trombone
Iagogeh, the One Who Hears Trombone
Pournachas Jemisin Trombone
Rhalina and Medhbh Trombone
Straight Arrow Trombone
Zigzag Trombone
Bold Bardash Trumpet
Brannart Morphail Trumpet
Eric Beck Trumpet
Gurni Gurnisson Trumpet
I-Li Sontag Trumpet
Kyu JAMMs Trumpet
Oona von Bek Trumpet
Zheng He Trumpet
Shen Adichi Tuba
The Iron Orchid Tuba
Tubal Caine Tuba
Halo Jones Tuba
Rodice Andelia Olsun Tuba
Brinna Childresse-Lao Tuba
Swifty Frisko Tuba
Clara Pandy Tuba
Alerik Solnit Viola
Bihari Rilke Viola
Bistami Marshall Viola
Bistami Singleton Viola
Captain Oswald Bastable Viola
Clen of Clen-Gar Viola
Cronarch Vinge Viola
Hogg Viola
Insef Clarke Viola
Jack Karaquazian Viola
Katima Hyde Viola
Kokila Beckett Viola
Kya Coello Viola
M'v Okom Sebpt O'Riley Viola
Miss Mavis Ming Viola
Odysseus Norton Viola
Oladahn Althusser Viola
Psin Borges Viola
Shardul Gygax Viola
Zaneeta Kheel Viola
Bahram al-Bokhara Violin
Bao Ssu Violin
Butterfly Violin
Catherine Cornelius Violin
Clovis Marca Violin
Gordon Ꙫgg Violin
I-Chin Tibet Violin
Ibn Ezra Violin
Ibrahim ibn Hasam al-Lanzhou Violin
Iwang Peake Violin
Jaspar Colinadous Violin
Jehamia Cohnahlias Violin
Jermays the Crooked Violin
Jerry Cornelius Violin
Jerry Cornell Violin
Jhary-a-Conel Friedman Violin
Jherek Carnelian Violin
Kang Tongbi Violin
Karl Glogauer Violin
Khalid Ali Abu al-Samarqandi Violin
Kheim Tarkovsky Violin
Libussa Cartagena y Mendoza-Chilperic Violin
Lord Jagged of Canaria Violin
Manfred von Bek Violin
Mouse Violin
Pao Stapledon Violin
Peng Cage Violin
Queen Eloarde Violin
Roger Violin
Said Darya Violin
Sayyed Abdul Aziz Khan Violin
Shih Lem Violin
Zunli Hsieh Violin
