Here's What You Get:
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 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 monthly 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.
(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; to interact with subscribers. If a musician, poet, singer, dance, author, philosopher, actor, arsonist wants to collaborate with us, just ask.)
Bandcamp suggests I also tell you
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, 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 Randolph texted, "what if we offered to adapt one song for each subscriber to our noizak? Could we do that?"
Curiosity, I guess, is why we do this and everything else. Every sound we make is born of What If...
Thank you for your support.
The fleshling curators of The MVM
Here’s what you get:
- All the new music we make streaming instantly on your mobile device via the free Bandcamp app, and also available as a high-quality download.*
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These back-catalog releases:
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Third Symphony The Moon-Ladder Una Persson's Noischestra Perform Her Lunar Magick -
Diary of Mars (collected contributions) Sentimental Witches -
One Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Five Minutes Eighteen Seconds Parcae Threnody -
Crash!/Bang! For Orchestra Carnivale Orcharnitestra -
Life In The Bicameral Mind: Coillated Eugene Triffidcult Magick Endsemble -
Distemporal Dislocation Vig!N!titet -
Second Symphony The Sky's Gone Out Eugene Debs Sentimental Esoterichestra -
Stitched On Bach: Chance Meeting On A DAW Of Wendy Carlos & Nurse With Wound Eugene Debs Bicameral Noisechestra
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- The satisfaction of knowing you’re supporting us in a sustainable way.
The Museum of Viral Memory
Eugene, Oregon
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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