Ceremonial Abyss - at/then
Recorded March 2026 in Iowa City, IA.
Side A - “at”
Side B - “then”
Total running time: 62 minutes
Off-white five-screw type I recycled ferric cobalt cassette in soft poly case. Insert printed on 80lb stock paper.
Edition of 100. Available today on the Editions Camille bigcartel.
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at:
half open croonless stores of iodine (temper-loss, faceted) glaze-ed. All about how or why we are buried. Mettlesome rhetor covets the space above water & to yearn is the nights-long color. Blue jugular vehemence, yes, & so prime uncaused cause, or theophanic matter through benevolence. Kickaround the state (dual-trim air) where flash-lag-awe becomes word. Amphoras & phials. Licitness. Guttural fear. Swaying & fluttering & after dusk no difference no other (egress possible) in cawing reverie. Limbs judder, knees squarecut bound the expanse of room, gold beveled edges from corner to tarp, yes, I said tarp (one decorative speaker grille) & this is sorrow-ette of textural vagrancy. Utter spinal array, nodes & motes of hours, a harrowing brace of accord, yearning prism-ic fact, cinched grey area. Grammarians say that one pleasure rather than a headache, one speaker bracket, one leather-hinged loudspeaker, one 8” inch conduit powerline will help us quit loss: the point to open your soul for the self-rectification in careless surface. Ambient sex alley, dirty slot in windows, spoon beaten, anything beaten. Allusions in aenigmate [continued…] - Jane Lewty
Michael Slyne & Ceremonial Abyss - Slyne/Abyss
Recorded on tape Oct. 2025 in New London, CT.
Tape transfers by Slyne
Total running time: 32 minutes
Black / clear five-screw type I ferric cobalt cassette in blue norelco case. Insert printed on off-white recycled 80lb stock paper.
Edition of 100. Available today on the Editions Camille bigcartel.
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Initial transmissions clearing earnest pathways, cresting purple. Starts with a place held over us. Transitory cloud-forms sonorous and aware hit this ribboning strand, unspooling and spiraling above that hinted pool: rippling out out, harmonious sliding front lends chord that length to hover. Everything in transitory form heard heading away from us, bent to the notion that each sound pulls. A holding received and disturbed among brilliant mist caught in tone’s light, somewhere ultraviolet, situating what branches out slowly off center, reddening within your confined pulse, left as memory drift, sealed as big as lake cosmos, unclear limited site. Down drifting order as terrain is remolding around us. Slow unfolding sentience, algal mind, intent on a disquieting edge, ambient refusal. Half-caught speech registered at times between tones, integral sound surging under cosmic splits. Observed circulating pierces hearing sublunar, thickening the disturbance. That sequence unfolds to the limits of a vast turning space. Laurence Weisberg: “sometimes it’s correct to rewrite yourself with a supersensible fire”
- Geoffrey Olsen
ONEIRIC LIMINAL FIELD TESTS v3
A third installment focusing on improvisation, and the shared presence of sound.
🗓️ April 16th
⏰ 7:00–9:30 pm
📍 Okay Bar (Backyard)
We are thrilled to welcome Ceremonial Abyss on tour from Portland, OR.
Featuring;
Ceremonial Abyss (PDX)
Mere of Light
Eddie Chapman
Justin Ready
ONEIRIC LIMINAL FIELD TESTS continues to grow as an emergent, welcoming, and evolving collective focused on the creative experience and providing space for experimentation and contribution.
Open to all.
If you’re working experimentally and would like to participate this night or future editions, please reach out to @ready.justin .
Emergent structure. Invited contributions. Collective listening.
![Ceremonial Abyss - at/thenRecorded March 2026 in Iowa City, IA.Side A - “at”Side B - “then”Total running time: 62 minutesOff-white five-screw type I recycled ferric cobalt cassette in soft poly case. Insert printed on 80lb stock paper.Edition of 100. Available today on the Editions Camille bigcartel.—at:half open croonless stores of iodine (temper-loss, faceted) glaze-ed. All about how or why we are buried. Mettlesome rhetor covets the space above water & to yearn is the nights-long color. Blue jugular vehemence, yes, & so prime uncaused cause, or theophanic matter through benevolence. Kickaround the state (dual-trim air) where flash-lag-awe becomes word. Amphoras & phials. Licitness. Guttural fear. Swaying & fluttering & after dusk no difference no other (egress possible) in cawing reverie. Limbs judder, knees squarecut bound the expanse of room, gold beveled edges from corner to tarp, yes, I said tarp (one decorative speaker grille) & this is sorrow-ette of textural vagrancy. Utter spinal array, nodes & motes of hours, a harrowing brace of accord, yearning prism-ic fact, cinched grey area. Grammarians say that one pleasure rather than a headache, one speaker bracket, one leather-hinged loudspeaker, one 8” inch conduit powerline will help us quit loss: the point to open your soul for the self-rectification in careless surface. Ambient sex alley, dirty slot in windows, spoon beaten, anything beaten. Allusions in aenigmate [continued…] - Jane Lewty](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_6739167021155249573339_0_08cb38dac08b4f47a8ccce6b4c1ea0fd.jpg?o=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&h=984f18ea43d2cb61fc6cfff331b30fca)
