William S. Burroughs lecture,July 20,1976,on paranormal,EVP,text+tape cut-ups,prognostication
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- Опубликовано: 12 фев 2013
- This audio recording complements another Burroughs one uploaded to YT earlier (see: "William S. Burroughs lecture,writing class,June 25,1986,on paranormal,synchronicity,dreams" ): • William S. Burroughs l...
I've also uploaded an entertaining short (9 min.) reading by Burroughs entitled:
"The Cat Inside - William S. Burroughs,alternate early draft excerpts,1985 reading":
• The Cat Inside - Willi...
In this recording Burroughs covers the cut-up method of writing in some detail, & reads from his own cut-up writings, as well as some by Burroughs' sometime collaborator Brion Gysin. Burroughs describes how some cut-ups appear to be uncanny prognosticators, accurately predicting future events, according to Burroughs.
He also describes experiments with audio cut-ups using tape recorders. He had intended to play recordings of some of Gysin's tape experiments at this lecture, but the tapes had not arrived on time. Instead, Burroughs describes some of the cut-up tape experiments.
And he covers other tape experiments that interest him conducted by paranormal investigators & what today is commonly known as EVP (electronic voice phenomena), where tape recorders are supposed to record unexplained mysterious human voices though no such sound input is available to the recorder. Burroughs refers to these as "Paranormal Voices" experiments/phenomena.
Burroughs also makes reference to dreams, the last words of Dutch Schultz, Shakespeare, computers, Homer, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, & Carl Jung.
There's a long Q & A session with students at the end.
He sounds like a disinterested snakeoil salesman. Correlian photography! EVP and voiceprint technology. I love it, thanks for the upload. I see fifty-year lags everywhere.
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William S Burroughs everybody's wierd uncle.😊
I was a functional junkie for 20years off junk for 10years don't know much about this Gye but the pins pupils in his young photos are very telling
A classic! Thanks 🙏calling Dr Benway
If you're listening on headphones, it's mainly in the left speaker.
thanks for posting this i love Burroughs
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Thanks for sharing !!!!!!!! Really thanks, greetings from Czech. Bill was....IS , still inspiration for all of us.
Hey I wonder if anyone's came upon the following lecture?
I met Mr. Burroughs way back, on a bus to Eastwood, Nottinghamshire. Bill was a big fan of D. H. Lawrence. I was very young and Bill already old.
You can't discount the role of Bryon Gysin in these ideas. They are more those of a painter than a writer. As Burroughs himself says, sound and vision are at two very different frequencies, with the sound being much "slower". Whether or not words are a "virus" or not is open to a healthy questioning, but I think Burrough's ideas help illuminate phenomena like synesthesia and other non-ordinary spectrums of perception.
If yall'd shutup.. and quit moving around... the man is speaking.... SILENCE
Pure legendary genius!!!!
GREAT!
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There's no way those cut-up samples were randomly arranged. If so, they weren't cut up down to the word, but down to the phrase. If you randomly arrange words, the grammar falls apart completely.
I've just upped a new, short (5 min.) Burroughs selection of interview & lecture excerpts on his fave "junkie lit" addict authors, here:
"The Lair of the bear is in Chicago"
Behind the iron curtain idk why in the context of the point he was postulating over made me laugh.. Like hey you over there are you getting the message ha.