Hoots Howls & Hollers ∴ Haunt Letter

October ∴ November ∴ Hauntomancy 2022

While I construct the new Haunt Manual chapter, I thought I’d utilize Substack’s newsletter feature to aggregate the multi-media gusts of haunted hoots and hollers that echoed throughout October and November…

∴AUDIOMANCY

∴ New “DIM SESSION” Audiomancy Ritual

My closing audiomantic ritual (“Dim Session”) for the soon-to-be-released Haunt Manual chapter (and conclusion of “Sine Wave Serpents”) was performed this week. The mechanics of instrumentation (talismans) utilized for the improvised set, like all prior, are deeply intentional and correlate to the hauntological workings professed in the chapter’s innards. This is why all ritual scores for the Haunt Manual audio chapters have been so radically different. This one utilizes lo-fi cassette manipulation, an old casio keyboard and a live-programmed drum machine to match the human error integration with automaton spits and spurts of my own overarching developments.

This recent musical experiment reminded me of the want to create a channeled lo-fi electronic and film-score-centric project entitled ECTOGASM (I reserved the name and its bandcamp years ago- which further proves the hauntomancy made manifest by bridging synapses long forgotten!) I also have been inspired to utilize these Dim Sessions to conjure audiomantic records by turning these improvised sets into the muscular skeletons of formal albums, but more on that later…

∴ “Sine Wave Serpents I & 2” Video & Audio Companions

Speaking of the Haunt Manual, my last chapter, Sine Wave Serpents Divisions I & II, have been compiled for the audio and visual companion. I created an enriching videomantic edit to accompany the audio chapter (which was wide released via the Pragmagick podcast). You can view/listen here:

∴ DAKOTA SLIM “BARDOS” now on Spotify & Streaming Platforms

My last Dakota Slim record, BARDOS, is now on Spotify and will be available on all streaming platforms within the week. The record was constructed during the height of the pandemic while stationed in Colorado. It encapsulates a horrowing introspection and punching yearn to break through the barriers of self-imposed exile within mental health, addiction and the year long mile-high sabbatical of awkward off-set localization:

∴DIALOGUES

∴ Liminalstream with JJ of REINE DE BLANC

Finally had a formal chat with dear friend and metalsmith mage, JJ, of REINE DE BLANC designs. We discuss wayfaring wanderlust, artistry and her brilliant work as a metal-smith that creates talismans and ornaments of power and protection. I always adore peaking through tactile mediums of art and magick, and the alchemy of metallurgy is a brilliant confluence of both.

∴ Appearance on BLACK HOODIE ALCHEMY

I was able to usher in the autumnal swing as a guest on two fantastic shows. The first one was friend and February-brother-from-another-number, Dive & Hunt Manual writer (and progenitor of the Haunt Manual title), Anthony Tyler’s Black Hoodie Alchemy on the Fringe.FM.

From Anthony Tyler:

Keats talks to us about his multi-media work that he’s entitled “Haunt Manual” discussing the aspects of our characters, our egos, our minds, and our lives that haunt us.

We talk quite a bit about both eastern and western esotericism, discussing ritual and ceremony in drug rehabilitation and other forms of therapy, the archetypes of hungry ghosts and demons and angels, and the alchemical process of rooting around in our own minds in order to purify and renew what we’ve thrown away through trauma and misunderstanding.

We also talk a little bit about Keats’ history growing up with his father, a man who hosted a show very similar to the ones Keats and I host! Through his father, Keats met as a child prominent names such as Robert Anton Wilson and even Timothy Leary, which helped to inspire his own pursuits to this day.

Pull the cosmic trigger: search back through the stories and art that inspired you as a child, forgive yourself for your mistakes, stop letting nostalgia and regret torment you, and dig deep into your psyches to forgive and renew the aspects that haunt you.

I recently posted my appearance via an article on WE THE HALLOWED and the audio via the PRAGMAGICK podcast RSS: https://wethehallowed.org/feed/podcast/*
*Note: For some reason, over 60 episodes of the Pragmagick Podcast disappeared from Spotify’s feed, and Spotify’s feed only - still trying to figure out why…

∴ Appearance on Michelle Embree’s Youtube Channel

I also got to spend Halloween day with fellow We The Hallowed Haunt Michelle Embree (of the Secret Antenna Podcast and writer of Daydream Tarot) reading and discussing Tarot while also dipping into the raditudes of Anarchism, our We The Hallowed collective and having way too much fun. Also, read her reoccurring Tarot column on WE THE HALLOWED!

∴MISC. GOOFJUICE

If you fancy some deeper naval-gazing and terror-tinkering from yours truly, you can be consistently updated with HAUNT MANUAL drafts, full albums, patreon-only streams, video journals and a veritable holler of art and magicks via PATREON for just a bone a month.

Make sure to subscribe to my PRAGMAGICK YOUTUBE to view “liminalstream” chats and get notified when my sporadic live audiomancy rituals/performances are being streamed!

Since my personal facebook (and its subsequent project pages) were unceremoniously deleted without warning or reason, I have attempted to start fresh. You can follow the new pages for PRAGMAGICK and DAKOTA SLIM.

As always, I am available on INSTAGRAM (both PRAGMAGICK & DAKOTA SLIM) and the drifting ghost-ship that is TWITTER.

Please subscribe to our international media magicks collective WE THE HALLOWED and check out the updated site. Eric Millar and I have been hard at work redressing and adorning the page for a new era, the haunted aeon!

Stay tuned for the next multi-media grimoire installment of HAUNT MANUAL (the conclusion of SINE WAVE SERPENTS) and the plethora of haunted hollers from this here crooked feller and…

HAUNT ON.
Revel ∴ Keats Ross