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V'Gernull - *State Hospital Nocturne for Taiko Ensemble, String Quartet, Piano, E​-​Bow Electric Guitar, and Choir

from Music for Mental Health by Various Artists

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V'Gernull can be found at
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The MVM is currently working on a series of nocturnes about the experience of bipolar disorder. They are based on the experiences and stories of one of our primary collaborators, who, along with his grandmother, mother, and aunt were all involuntarily committed to one of America's more regressive and backwards State Hospitals between the years 01967 and 01996. In 01998, the US government shut the place down for general abuse, incompetence, and malfeasance. Our collaborator has amazing stories about the place. They have amazing stories about the family's different generational trajectories: the radically different ways they were treated from how their grandmother, and even mother and aunt, were treated.
One thing that remained consistent from the 60s to the 90s?
Everyone was just thorazined (or alternatively medicated) into zombiedom, and then warehoused rather than actually treated for any illness. The track we submitted is crafted around our collaborator's hazy, foggy, blurry, medicated memories of their first few weeks in * State Hospital.
Fun Fact: with help from their mom and their grandfather our collaborator escaped from * State Hospital after several months, and was unable to return to the state of * for many years, as they were wanted as an escaped prisoner and fugitive.

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from Music for Mental Health, released October 10, 2021

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