Ruaridh Law // Art & Music   email ruaridh@gmail.com
44: A Tarot For Sietse Van Erve (2020-2024)

Performance interface (2020-)
Physical Tarot Deck (2020)
Released as part of 44x44 boxset (Moving Furniture, 08-21)
Performance online for further_in, 05-20
Performance at Sanctuary Presents: Spoor, Galloway Forest, 09-21
Performance at 10 Years Of Broken20, Iklectik, London, 09-22
Physical Appendix installation (Six Empty Tables, Hillhead, 10-24)
Physical Appendix installation (Fox Yard gallery, Stowmarket, 10-24)
One For Finishers book (No Roof Only Sky, 2024)
Action - One For Finishers, Finished (2024-)

Interface designed with Bryan Kerr
44 is a physical Tarot deck, a self-designed computer music performance environment, an installation, and a talk about accessibility, storytelling, inspiration and not relying on things mapping to other things.

You can see the tarot deck at 44.broken20.com

Initially conceived for the 44x44 project for Moving Furniture Records and released on one disc of the 4x CD box set

Then it became an actual tarot deck, then a talk, then a lot of other things

The logical conclusion to the project was a book featuring colour images of all of the major arcana, and a limited edition version with CD and a single selected tarot card from the deck included. 22 colour images and essays from Debbie Armour and James Papademetrie on tarot-as-artform plus notes on the project from me.

And a first, secret edition, for those who had cards named for them with letter explaining the inclusion - and the action taken in seeking out and delivering these items to the recipients. Which is harder than it seems in some cases.

First edition: cardholders. 20 copies & letter (plus 1 collective card held in stasis, plus my own card). 19 delivered so far // Second edition: limited edition. 22 copies, one for each card. None remain // Third edition: unlimited. 51 delivered so far.





>Ruaridh Law is an artist and musician based in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

>Over 20 years he has performed in groups, in collaborations and solo across a wide range of festivals, arts spaces, venues and clubs as performer, improviser, DJ and artist. His >mediums include sound and installation art, film and writing. His works have ranged from intimate audio performance and gallery installations to large-scale outdoor works >combining sound walks, improvised performance and experimental storytelling.

>His artistic focusses are on data-visualisation, human voices and their stories, unusual paradigms for performance and composing, and marrying abstraction to a beating human >heart. These have manifested themselves in a tarot deck that generates music, sequential stories told over film and radio, right-wing propaganda twisted and sanitised into more >worthwhile content and a walk through a forest and its imagined mythologies in the dead of night – as well as countless CD, DVD, vinyl and other music releases.

>He runs several record labels and, more recently, No Roof Only Sky, a small press publisher.