~ ⧬ * ⧭ ~ is an experiential tarot reading, creating an aleatoric soundscape informing the querent’s experience of their reading of the Thoth tarot’s 22 trump cards. The piece aims to connect science with mysticism, to investigate ways of knowing, and ultimately, consciousness.

~ ⧬ * ⧭ ~ questions the experience of ‘chance’, and the extent to which technologically created random occurrences can be infused with meaning. It investigates the link between science’s nihilistic theory of humankind’s randomness and the possibility of communication with higher powers as sought in divination.