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Dimming Room Ritual Set-Up
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This is the full PROSPECTRE Ritual performed and documented on 3/23. This working is the “thridscene” (∴) for my living, multi-media grimoire, HAUNT MANUAL: http://hauntmanual.com
EVERYTHING WAS PERFORMED LIVE. In the beginning I play a cassette tape of me asking questions to the spiritbox whilst channeling some Max Roachisms on a drum set to churn the psychic gas – this was an experiment of the hauntological prisms of a past self communing with the OTHER while I remained anchored in the present with reactive performance. The HQ Audio mix has my cassette recordings of the ritual sync’d to the full, unedited recording – however, tape speeds vary.
This ritual was performed using a spiritbox , drumset, baritone electric guitar, vocals, looping and glossolalia – nothing planned, everything improvised as with all Dim Sessions. This working will be decoded utilizing the ALW Cipher (as newly anointed AGENT 333 of LISTENING POST ALPHA) and available via HAUNT MANUAL soon.
Dimming Room Ritual Set-Up View Past Haunt Manual “DIM SESSIONS”
The full, unedited footage of the improvised live audiomancy ritual is already available to patrons: http://www.patreon.com/pragmagick
The video documentation of the ritual used on-camera projections, experimental lighting and a milieu of instruments new to the liminalstream Dim Session format; unfortunately, the footage is simply too dark to see what’s happening musickally. No matter, I decided to conjure some cut-up videomancy utilizing an array of psychedelic and hypnagogic personal and collaborator footage (skull animations by Logan Ford) so that the HQ audio mix of this ritual is tethered appropriately.
No audio was edited out of the entire ritual – everything you hear was as it was – with some ghostly tape schisms of cassette recordings of this ritual mixed in.
The true videomantic parallel lies in the unearthed footage I found of me deconstructing and burning my altar 5 years ago (you can read about the ritual here: https://wethehallowed.org/audiomancy-the-night-thief/ – right after exalting the name REVEL ROSZ and the bounties of 2017. I don’t burn antiques often, just the ones that have so much of my psychical detritus imprinted on them that were already broken to begin with. Fitting that Haunt Manual began with a ghost conjuration of my 2017 self, and ends with the PROSPECTRE of self burning the altar in 2017…
The PROSPECTRE working is the third working illustrated in Haunt Manual (SPECTRE ∴ ASPECTRE ∴ PROSPECTRE) the triumvirate anarchic hauntological dig-a-ghost musick and magick I have been casting for over a year. However, due to recent revelations of me taking back the REVEL ROSZ moniker, the one exalted and now exhumed, it is only fitting that through the videomancy editing I found my oft-thought-lost footage of my altar burning 5 years ago.
Haunt on,
Revel ∴ Keats Ross
