I have always enjoyed cobbling together paradigm shifting technologies from the rusty bones of old aeon occultism. Seeing digital print at ChaosMagick.Com in early 2022, Tha Kayozz Evokkation remains one of the more useful examples of this heretical spellwork. Designed as a vaccination against the inherent dogma that many traditions can heap upon the seeker, it goes without saying that an afternoon spent completing cut up spells while bombarded with discordant audio to the point of sensory overload will soon prove that the magickal power lies within the individual and not the tomes of forgotten lore they consume.

Tha Kayozz Evokkation
Cut Up Truth and Audio Lies
By Gavin Fox

Chaos has a bad reputation. The word itself, much like the terms witch or necromancer, carries a lot of cultural baggage. War, insurgency, natural disaster, economic upheaval, we regularly see the mass media describe those highly damaging cultural states as chaotic. This is unfortunate but understandable, as the term existed long before the movement which sought a free-form identity in the face of stale Old Aeon magick co-opted its use.

But far from being a destructive occult force this chaos is instead viewed from the inside as the nothing that can be formed into anything, a primordial clay bent to the skilled magickian’s will. Borrowing heavily from découpé, a technique for creating new texts out of old that was popularised by the Dadaists, the Kayozz Evokkation is designed to allow a practitioner the opportunity to swim through that swirling cauldron of random creation on a personal level, albeit with very unpredictable results.

Unlike more structured paths chaos magick grants the practitioner a free pass to relegate the various tools and incantations that others would consider the backbone of their practice to mere props invested with meaning when the need arises. This fluidity of thought has led to many an intriguing juxtaposition of the seemingly sacred and the unashamedly profane during ritual, though up to now such excess was mostly confined to pop culture figures serving as convenient alternatives for gods and devils who were otherwise engaged and unavailable.

Those unfamiliar with the Dadaists and their anti-artistic revolution during the first quarter of the 20th Century may not realise just how important the movement would be to the modernist and post-modernist groups that followed. Découpé too would get a second lease of life through projects which utilised the cut-up technique as popularised by William S. Burroughs in the 1950’s, and it is here that the Kayozz Evokkation finds its core methodology.

All that is required to create the basic structure of the rite is a stack of books, glue, some scissors and access to either a printer or photocopier. A handful of audio files are also needed for the actual body of the evocation itself. These are not required to be related to either magick or the purpose of the operation, though spoken word is preferred. Physical or digital texts will work equally well, though whichever method is chosen paper copies of the existing rituals within those pages will need to be made. These are then cut into single sentence strips, shuffled together and placed in a pile.

The first phase of the Kayozz Evokkation requires the magickian to achieve a semi lucid trance state by loudly playing as many different audio files at the same time as they have available devices to do so. When they finally find it impossible to keep track of what is being said, the words becoming an unintelligible mess, the chaote begins dipping into the pile of paper shards and retrieving the sentences one at a time. These are then arranged in that order upon another page, until at least one good sized sheet is full.

If the chaote regains lucidity at any time during this first stage they should stop adding to this page, and instead return their concentration to the audio, awaiting the overwhelm induced gnosis that comes from trying to process too much stimuli at any one time. It is impossible to fail here, as the state only needs to be maintained during the actual picking process and can be resumed as many times as required as long as no deliberate break is taken in between.

The second half of the ritual involves performing the ersatz evocation that the chaote has worked to create. The paragraph structure will be strange, the godforms and spirits named in the same breath usually diametrically opposed in polarity. Tools and artefacts will be mentioned that the practitioner did not prepare ahead of time. This is normal, and there is no need to seek those items out. Only the words themselves matter now, as the magickian taps into the same current that underpinned the bardic traditions of old and speaks their truth into the wind.

In some cases the resulting text will be downright blasphemous, but creation is never quiet, and neither should the magickian be either. Instead they should stridently shout the cut up prose they have made, competing with the still looping audio and adding their own words to the air as reality itself bends under the weight of language crystallising around them. Again and again they should repeat it, their voice becoming hoarse and vocalisations more shrill until they venture long beyond the point where they cannot continue. Eventual collapse from exhaustion is inevitable, and signals the end of the ritual.

The evocation is then over, and the audio files are turned off while the chaote recovers. It is recommended to not banish with laughter, but silence and a cold drink as the latter stages of the process can be extremely demanding. When normal consciousness is finally regained the magickian should look at the text they created and see if there are any obvious patterns or requests that were made during the ritual, as these will likely be reflected within the practitioner’s life over the next few weeks.

The Dadaists held nothing within art to be sacred, and instead broke convention to create scathing social commentary from the crushed shards of the established order. That is what the Kayozz Evokkation sets out to do, and when completed correctly it not only serves to demonstrate the boundless possibilities within the chaos current but also raise unverified personal gnosis to a whole different level. Done a few times a year it can also cleanse the magckian’s mind of any remaining reverence for the rituals of yesteryear. Because when those words are cut up, glued down, shouted into the void and still generate change it becomes painfully obvious that the real power was within the magickian all along.