PRAGMAGICK #14 “8-bitMANCY”
ON R.U.U.N.E…
It’s amazing how quickly we’ve become friends, let alone how fast RUUNE is becoming a staple of the local music and occult scene since moving to Portland from Boston this year. We are undoubtedly similar as fervent creators and conjurors, as well as had similar trajectories; once tirelessly-touring musicians, now folklore obsessed practitioners of the Woo. But RUUNE has an enigmatic soul very much their own; as a Reiki healer, Tarot Diviner and Chaos Magician, Ruune’s unique gift is that of making people feel “good” by being “kind” – whether its metaphysically or interpersonally, they’re always beaming with a Cheshire smile and an inventive energy.
Ruune’s magickal outlook is especially unique as it advances yesteryear’s “cyberpunk” aesthetics and expands them into a modern magickal language using the symbology of video games: They cast and conjure code like a pixelated sorcerer in the side-scrawling 8-bit epic that is their rich and wondrous life.
Also, like I, RUUNE creates audio-sigils – concept records that are imbued with magickal minutiae to create a hyper-world all their own. Their newest is NEPTUNE in BABYLON (Our 12/28) and I might have cracked the code on that title’s origin in this very episode.
Be sure to stay tuned for the premiere of SHRED/DRASTIC [EDIT: I believe it’s intended to be called “SHRED THE PAPER,” forgive the misnomer! -Rosz], a dance through the cybernetic dirge forest as an ode to the art of sigil-making!
You’ll no doubt hear more from Ruune, whether it is via this podcast or as part of our art collective and occulture blog, WE The HALLOWED, as Ruune has become a new addition to this strange pantheon of paranormal power rangers!
RUUNE CONTACT / LINKS:
RUUNE MAGICK / E-mail
R.U.U.N.E. / website
RUUNE / Facebook
RUUNE / Instagram
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TOPICS FOR SUBSCRIBERS:
- Limits of WOO
- Instagram Witches
- Tarot’s Gender Bias
- Occult Credibility
† “PRAGMAGICK is A MULTI-MEDIA GRIMOIRE conjured, conducted and curated by TRAVIS KEATS ROSS (Revel Rosz) and produced through the Portland, Oregon based occult-media collective, WE THE HALLOWED. Please visit and subscribe to WETHEHALLOWED.ORG for more info
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CREDITS:
† Original Theme and closing track : Instrumental version of “THE NIGHT THIEF” By DAKOTA SLIM from 2018’s CACTUS CROWN
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