Brion Gysin

...S. Burroughs, who applied the technique to fiction, film, and sound poetry. As Burroughs once said, "When you cut into the present, the future leaks out." In the early 1970s, P-Orridge became friends with Burroughs and Gysin and embarked...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, New York City, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV

Caravan of Dreams also released films (including Ornette: Made in America, a feature-length documentary about Coleman) and spoken word recordings by William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, John P. Allen (as Johnny Dolphin), and others. The...

In this article: Caravan of Dreams, Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth, Geodesic, Sundance Square, Twins Seven Seven, and John P. Allen

The title of both the show and catalog, "The Third Mind," comes from one of the Beat "cut up" works of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, a source that proposes a third mind (or narrator) assembled from the choices and accidents of the...

In this article: Asia, The Third Mind, Guggenheim Museum, Appropriation, American music, James Whistler, Georgia O'Keefe, and Ezra Pound

...the new possibilities. Iannis Xenakis is the first well-known composer to have worked with sound collage; other early artists who experimented with it include John Cage, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs. The most famous examples in...

In this article: Amplitude, Georges Seurat, William S. Burroughs, Iannis Xenakis, Horacio Vaggione, John Cage, and New York City

...also by Geiger. Man From Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, a biographical study of Burroughs and Gysin with a collection of homages to Gysin, was authored by Joe Ambrose, Frank Rynne,...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, Paris, Naked Lunch, Andre Breton, and Beat Hotel

He took the Doom Patrol, and superhero comic books in general, to places they had rarely been, incorporating bizarre secret societies , elements of Dada, surrealism, and the cut-up technique pioneered by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin.

In this article: Doom Patrol, Dorothy Spinner, Grant Morrison, Robotman, Chief, Arnold Drake, Brain, and Beast Boy

...writers and musicians. There, Ginsberg began his epic poem Kaddish '', Corso composed his poems ''Bomb and Marriage, and Burroughs (with Brion Gysin's help) put together Naked Lunch from previous writings. This period was documented by...

In this article: Gregory Nunzio Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, New York City, Beat Hotel, Jack Kerouac, Harvard, Columbia College, and Charles "Lucky" Luciano

The Cat Inside The Cat Inside is the title of an autobiographical novella written by William S. Burroughs and illustrated by Brion Gysin. The book was first published by Grenfell Press in 1986 in an edition of only 133 copies; it was later...

In this article: William S. Burroughs, The Cat Inside, Viking Press, and Dead City Radio

...device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain. In its original form, a dreamachine is...

In this article: Epilepsy and William Burroughs