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Once a month you will receive the right to send us something you would like us to adapt for noischestra. And even the right to suggest instrumentation (symphonic, solo instrument, string quartet, woodwind unidectet...), although we reserve the right to ignore this second suggestion if the muses make a different suggestion. We cannot anger the muses.

You may send us a word; a movie; a song; a book; an emotion; an uncomfortable situation; a newspaper article; the wet, stinking detritus of an alien autopsy; whatevs...

And we will then send you an interpretation dreamt madly from the minds of Sentimental Witches and performed by Una Persson's Noischestra or the Dahlgren String Quartet or Titus Groan's Organ Damaged or any of thousands of other groups we have in mind to someday create. You will get collaborator credit. And you can even request to be included in the collaboration in some way if you wish, though we are not sure how exactly that will work. It will be an experiment, and humans are always the weak points in our experiments...

These will not be private tracks. They will likely be collected on the site somewhere. So it is not the track, per se, that you are purchasing, but the right to commission a work from us on an unholy schedule! Keep in mind that if you want a symphony, you may be best satisfied requesting it one movement at time, one movement each month, perhaps. Or, don't request it that way, but that may be how we deliver it. It seems unwise to promise several hours of music to everybody every month...

(As a note, this is not intended as a way to charge musicians to collaborate with us. Banish the thought! Rather, it is a way to give fans something; a way to interact with subscribers. If a musician, poet, singer, dance, author, philosopher, actor, arsonist wants to collaborate with us, just ask.)


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Who we are:

The MVM is ㄥ⅃ & Randolph Carter, two beings who make music together. And apart.
The MVM hosts projects that ㄥ⅃ & Randolph produce solo, as a duo, and as leader(s) & co-leader(s) of projects.

We both come out of conceptual music and absurdist art backgrounds. We were created by Shelley, Zorn, Nitsch, The Residents, Ives, Marshall, Nancarrow, Fluxus, Antheil, Cage, Crass, Cluster, Miles, Throbbing Gristle, Young, Cale, Monahan, Branca, Marclay, Kostelanetz, Logic, Russolo, Satie, Bertoia, Riley, Conniff, Palestine, Gordon, Moorman, Ono, 101 Strings, Oliveros, Kubisch, Tinguely, Denio, Braxton, Coleman, Trimpin, SRL, Conrad, Zazeela, Duchamp, Thomas, Z'EV...

And hundreds, thousands, of others.


Why you’re doing this:

We are skeptical that any human being actually knows why they do things.

If pressed, we would say that we are offering a subscription solely because it is there. Bandcamp has the option. So we did it. Of course, our first years what we offered was self-mockery.

And then one day we thought, "what if we offered to transform one song to our noizak for each subscriber? Could we do that?"

Curiosity, I guess, is why we do this and everything else. Every sound we make is born of What If...

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The Museum of Viral Memory

Eugene, Oregon

A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind
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Latest Release

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The Museum of Viral Memory

Eugene, Oregon

A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind
vime.org Eugene Difficult Music Ensemble my special porpoise oRSo edme.threadless.com

Latest Release

Requiem For Death
buy now discuss this album wishlist in wishlist