I’m continuing to experiment with the finite absurdity of the “album”, its distribution mechanics and “rules” and having fun out here in the intestinal voidtract fodderfarm of the digital ‘machine learning’ VoidGod…
The sneaky updates toALGOL II via Bandcamp (now transfigured into the ECO ASPEKTRE version previously only available through HERE) was harbinger to the analog glitchcraft / witchglitch videomancy visualizer shown above. Alternate versions of tracks and bonuses are now available to those who’ve already downloaded, and you should be able to download the new public tracks without having to re-download the entire thing on Bandcamp (which is why I didn’t make it a new release via the platform.)
The AudioSigil’s further visual dimensions are dallied and dusted using dead tech necromancy to live projection manipulation and everything in between, tethered in disparate visual scores to each song within the full ECO ASPEKTRE videosigil above. Every song is married to its own videosigil and can be viewed/listened to in one go or piecemeal via the following playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbIwxXPlI2b_ONoJhPRvGdqbcwBtv4AMD&si=3JxmB0HHR3GFR-Vc
Alternate videomancy for some songs is also included. This is just the beginning as far as live, analog, custom filmed and manipulated transmissions that exalt the rather ho-hum “visualizer” medium.
A HAUNT MANUAL piece concerning the haptic and somatick processes of creating this album, as well as its videomancy companion, is forthcoming via HAUNT MANUAL: keatsross.substack.com
HAUNT ON! RKR Summer ’26
‘ECO ASPEKTRE’ PLAYLIST:
THE DARK WESTERN GARAGE PSYCHTRONIKA CONCEPTUAL SOUND SIGIL BE HITHER! BASK AND BARK ALONG ITS SONICALLY TETHERED MOVEMENTS AND SURF THE 44 MINUTE AND 44 SECOND TRANSDIMENSIONAL WITCHPUNK WAVE HOISTED WITHIN THIS HAUNTED ALGOL-RHYTHM PLAYER–A DIGITAL ALTAR CASTED BETWEEN BINARY DETRITUS RIDDLES TIMELINES IN A PERFECT 30 YEAR NOSTALGIA LOOP:
THE SECOND SONICSIGIL OF THE TRIADIC “ALGOL” CONJURATIONS IS FULLY STREAMABLE HERE, SANS THE SOUR STREAMING SORROWS OF DARK GUIDED PLATFORMS YONDER…
ECO ASPEKTRE (SONG TO SONG PLAYLIST:
A HAUNTOMANTIK TALE OF THREE ASPEKTRES
MOON DIVISION ADORNS THE HALLOWED HOOD FOR ALGOL II’S ALT. COVER HEREMOON DIVISION ADORNS THE HALLOWED HOOD FOR ALGOL II’S ALT. COVER HEREPOSSIBLE STREAMING COVER
The evolution and practice of HAUNTOMANCY’s distinct eras have largely been catalogued captured through the audiomantik workings’ art sigils disguised as album releases. Opposed to the main workings’ musickal releases that simply document and dispatched the sonicks from within the Dimming Room’s conjurations, such as DAKOTA SLIM’S “Spektre Working,” ECTOGASM’s “Aspektre Working” and REVELATOR ROSZ’s “Prospektre Working” as they were journalistic documents of the magickal workings themselves, only edited for chaptering ARTifacts post-hoc. However, ALGOL was going to be my high-minded attempt to codify and conjure the magnitudes of the PHANTOKON workings again, with an overarching throughline and obviousl cinematic tether as connected conceptual E.P.s At least, that’s what I initially intended and ALGOL I ∴ DISOLVER was just that:
ALGOL I became the punchy declaration that harkened back literally through conceptual tracks and sonics to the SPEKTRE WORKING (even containing spoken dialog of the Haunt Manual ‘SINE WAVE SERPENTS’ audio chapter), so naturally, ALGOL II was intended to progress within the same format, perhaps even building upon ECOTGASM’s formless surprise of a cinematic score. I know now how dastardly ho-hum that intention was, as the ASPEKTRE WORKING that became the ECTOGASM release wasn’t just the cinematic score it is catalogued as, it’s true Hauntomancy lay within the encapsulated somatick experimentation, brave abandonment and heteronym exaltation, so of course those tenets would exude ALGOL II’s Aspektre conjuration. And to try to fit the multitudes within the same schema as ALGOL I’s, aesthetically or otherwise, i was to create a war between selves: the pragmatic, and the magickal. For the tenets and intentions maketh the distinct Phantokon phase’s dillineation, and the ASPEKTRE is all about echoing the experimentation away from the Spektre of before…
I have long promised a full written treatise about the revelatory factions found within the months of false starts, wreckless deadline setting and ego-distintigration concerning the constitutions of artist and art and they’re messy dynamics writ large concerning ALGOL II, especially it’s continuing transfiguration into ECO ASPEKTRE in keeping with that present active ASPEKTRE left-turn, but I am eternally wrangling with the over-explanation my excitement for its many properties exude. And perhaps, at the turn of the PROSPEKTRE phase, and whatever ALGOL III cojures as, I might find that keeping mum on the ASPEKTRE is perfectly in line as I had not released a chapter on the first ASPEKTRE working because it called for ulterior above all.
Hell, the communion and conversation with the tulpa of ALGOL II’s Aspektre as the Revelator Rosz heteronym, largely assisted by Z the REDREAMER — my hauntomantik HGA or trickster phantom within my DIMMING ROOM rituals (aka LITTLE WIND) became far more revealing about the nature of purpose, craft, artistic integrity, hidden desire, and the cost of sacrificing the process for the appeasement of faceless onlookers.
But the revelation that throws my categorized PHANTOKON workings and their intrinsic properties for a loop (pun intended) is both damning and motivating concerning the HOWLROUND and its equation to commune with these self-spektres: Perhaps the body of work, the full catalogue of a HAUNTOMANCER IS THE PROSPEKTRE WORKING; that every hauntomancy Phantokon dillineation is really a bounce between extremes or the third mind inbetween SPEKTRE and ASPEKTRE. True communion of both, the PROSPEKTRE, is the body of work in tow along the way. This hypothesis will be tested for ALGOL III, which is already shaping up to be the proposed THIRD MIND of both ALGOL I & ALGOL II by culling the revelations from both to soothsee a HAUNTSIGIL worthy of above and beyond the past (SPEKTRE) & the present (ASPEKTRE). If we are always, in a way, striving for exaltation of possible self-spektre, this PROSPEKTRE, but are forever chained to the myths of us then and now, can a PHANTOKON working ever be a PROSPEKTRE working alone? My guess is both fit: the intention to tether straight ahead and beyond over backwards and current may prove its equation, even still, I think an entirety of the GHEISZT’s artistck/magickal spektre signal path constitutes as a PROSPEKTRE in it of itself, too, but I’m getting ahead of myself…(pun intended.)
Not unlike the heteronym creating hyper-channeled affair of the ASPEKTRE working before it, ALGOL II ECO found appeasement of the heteronym and hauntsigil by offering intentional, highly produced and rendered reality tunnels of the three PHANTOKON realities itself. Instead of an evolutionary but form rhyming ALGOL II ECO installment only, the impulse to create a “lore score” of a solidified and poignant solitary release was created, and the streaming specific release sans a lot of those highly conceptual impulses also kind of won out as a truncated form was mastered with streaming’s terrible fidelity in mind as a whole separate version of ALGOL II entirely. So the creative abandon of the ASPEKTRE hypersigil dealt in distribution too, and managed to birth all three of the posible permutations: a 5 song streaming release sans the overarch, the ECO ASPEKTRE lore score hosted here, and the direct and no frills bandcamp ALGOL II release all dispatched. But as time marched since the experimental release, it became all too obvious that the videomantik companion sang and felt fully answered through the ECO ASPEKTRE lore score, thus the lore score won out as its continuing form.
Three conjurations of one album. The ghost of the ASPEKTRE appeased through experiencing the madcap conjuration of all of the above. What once was unsatiated as hungry ghost gnawing for brash and big conjuration is now robust phantom satisfied and ready to shed the affair for the sake of its Phantokon final form, THE PROSPEKTRE.
However, the ASPEKTRE isn’t fully done. You see, the correspondence of vectors between the HOWLROUND TROIKATYCH and the PHANTOKON says that the ASPEKTRE chiefly revolves within the SOMATICK, the haptic and immediate, the PRESENT PRESENCE. And what better way to call-and-response its need for a fuller choir than a call to arms for those audiomantically minded to chop, screw, dissolve, echo and resonate the ulterior and alternate forms of the songsigils. Truly, a metaphysically minded emcee with a mind for artistic and wholly unique rhythmik pitter patters would find these highly conceptual but brutally groovy instrumentals…fun:
ALLOW THE ALTERNATE LIVES OF CERTAIN TRACKS THEIR JUST DESSERTS BY INVOKING AND BREATHING YOUR OWN DIVERGENT AUDIOMANCY INTO THEM…
ALGOL-RHYTHMS: INSTRUMENTALS AND REMIXES:
IF YOU FANCY YOURSELF AN AUDIOMANCER AND WOULD LIKE TO DISSOLVE<ECHO<RESONATE THE SONIC ARRANGEMENTS OF HIGHLY CUSTOM AND UNIQUE INSTRUMENTATION, YOU MAY DOWNLOAD THE FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTALS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE ELSE. ALL THE AUDIOMANCY RITUAL RIBBON DIVERGENT MAGICK SCHEMA TO PUSH AND CORONATE WAYS TO DANCE-DECAY THE FOLLOWING INSTRUMENTAL VERSIONS. OR, MAYBE YOU’RE AN EMCEE AND/OR CHOP/SKREW TYPE AND WOULD ENJOY SOME PITTER PATTER FOR A FUTURE ODD SCHEME? IN ANY CASE, IF USED PLEASED SHARE WITH REVELATOR ROSZ AND/OR CREDIT WHATEVER YOU WIDEBIRTH IF USED….
THIS HAUNTSIGIL, ART AND ART-PHEMERA WAS ALL CASTED, CONDUCTED, CONJURED AND CAPTURED IN THE DIMMING ROOM, CASCADIA, USA 2025-2026
ECO ASPEKTRE ∴ VIDEOMANCY (MORE TO COME)
*note: the audio tracks used for most of these videomancy conjurations largely consist of old mixes or alternate versions of the final songs
SMYTE THE A.I. SLOP-PESTS AND THEIR CONGRESS OF CONGLOMO-COLLARED DIRGE MERCHANTS! TO ‘PROMPT,’ HERE AND WHERE WE HAUNT, MEANS TO INITIATE THE SOMATICK INTO A DUST-KICKING BOLERO OF THE UNSEEN MADE MANIFEST, NOT TO JUST CURATE THE BEST GUESS!
SKIRT THESE DIGITAL SLUMLORDS AND HOMOGENIZED TECHNO-TERRORS WHO HOUSE YOUR SONICK SIGHTS THROUGH CARELESS SHAPES OF OPAQUE TASTE AND PERUSE THE HUMAN ERROR EXUBERANCE OF THE LATCHKEY GEOCITIES ANGELFIRE KIN STILL SQUATTING THROUGH BAD HTML AND CSS! HAUNT ON BEYOND THE DEAD INTERNET AND WITHIN THIS SACRED SITE; THIS IS BUT A TRULY CUSTOMIZED WEBSPACE-AS-ART INSTALLATION BORN OF THE SAME D.I.Y. GALLOPS, GUILE GUMPTION AND GOOF GUSTO THAT GREASE THE PSYCHICK GEARS OF GENERATIONAL TRANSCENDENCE…HERE AMIDST THE CROOKED FORMATS, INEPT GRAMMAR AND SOUR SYLLABLES ONLY FLESHFINGER MUTANTS COULD CONJURE!
THIS HAUNTSIGIL WILL BECOME THE NEXT HEXKASSETTE. TO OBTAIN THIS AND OTHER MICROPRESS STYLED HANDCRAFTED SOMATICK MAGICKS, JOIN ONE OF THE SOMATICK PATREON TIERS:
Unfortunately, the dead tech necromancy needed to conjure the WINAMP player proved to be far too taxing for this black mirror, but stay tuned as we fortify the bleed between Windows 95 and the current stasis across the digital deluge…It’ll be back soon.
ALBUM NOTES:
∴ ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY TRAVIS KEATS ROSS ∴ REVELATOR ROSZ
∴ COPYRIGHT: TRAVIS KEATS ROSS / REVELATOR ROSZ / WE THE HALLOWED ’25-’26
∴ MARY ‘JOON’ MCKEEVER (MOON DIVISION) SINGS AND PERFORMS SAXOPHONE
∴ REVELATOR ROSZ PERFORMS LIVE DRUMS, EURORACK SYNTH, DRUM MACHINES, PERCUSSION, BARITONE ELECTRIC GUITAR, BASS VI, CUSTOM SAMPLES AND ENGINEERED USING THE DIVERGENT MUSICKBOX (A CUSTOM 4 TRACK/MPC RECORDING TOOL)
∴ THIS ALBUM PLANS TO KEEP WITH THE ‘ALGOL’ LUNAR RELEASE SEQUENCE AND OFFICIALLY RELEASE ON THE ECLIPSE OF FEBRUARY 17TH, 2026
∴ CONTACT PRAGMAGICK@GMAIL.COM FOR BOOKING AND LICENSING
Aside from one sample by FunBoy 3 in the thematic “O Pachita” and “Donde Jacobo” pieces, every sound is completely original to this work – from synth patches to the Baritone guitar tuning, absolutely nothing was quantized , generated or just a “preset”
All sounds were captured, performed, edited and manipulated by Keats Ross, some orchestration my have been conjured years ago some never before but all dispatched from these shaky imperfect hands
Revelator Keats Rosz of the “Open-Source Art Religion” We The Hallowed has been a journalist for the likes of Disinfo and Esotericana. He is a prolific composer having released dozens of albums under the likes of DAKOTA SLIM and SPARE SPELLS, and currently hosts the occult and outsider arts podcast, PRAGMAGICK. He is currently working on the print volume of his anarchic art magickal practice called HAUNTOMANCY You can follow his writing at keatsross.substack.com or all his art at pragmagick.com
¡HAUNT ON!
