Ian Sommerville

...was not a creator. Yet this idea of a website with Burroughs' input continues to fascinate. What would Burroughs have done with an Ian Sommerville-type collaborator who knew the nuts and bolts of computers and the Internet, was aware of their...

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...the text of Naked Lunch and began his lifelong collaboration with Brion Gysin. It was also where Ian Sommerville became Burroughs' 'systems advisor' and lover. Gysin introduced Burroughs to the Cut-up technique and with Sommerville they...

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...was a failed attempt to rehabilitate their relationship. After Burroughs' lover, Ian Sommerville , convinced William that his son was irrevocably homesick, Billy returned to Palm Beach. When Billy was fifteen, he accidentally shot his best...

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...planning to use the place as a studio hideaway. Sommerville recorded writer William Burroughs there, but discouraged other interested persons, believing he was working for McCartney exclusively. McCartney later gave up the flat and it...

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...regulars there, becoming Burroughs's lover and "systems adviser". Around 1960, he programmed a random-sequence generator that Brion Gysin used in his cut-up technique. He and Gysin also collaborated in 1961 in developing the Dreamachine,...

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