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"Really, I think, behind everything, he was trying to teach people to see differently." -
"Really, I think, behind everything, he was trying to teach people to see differently." - Genesis P-Orridge, on Brion Gysin
The dream machine looks simple enough: A 100-watt light bulb, a motor, and a rotating cylinder with cutouts. Just sit in front of it, close your eyes, and wait for the visions to come.
The dream machine offers a drugless high that its creator -- poet, artist, calligrapher and mystic Brion Gysin -- believed would revolutionize human consciousness.
He wasn't alone. Kurt Cobain had a dream machine. And William S. Burroughs thought it could be used to "storm the citadels of enlightenment."
With a custom-made dream machine in tow, director Nik Sheehan takes us on a journey into the life of Brion Gysin -- his art, his complex ideas, and his friendships with some of the 20th century's key counterculture figures.
Gysin was fascinated by identity. He saw himself as a incarnation of the 10th-century King of Assassins, trained in counter-espionage during WWII, and wrote and rewrote his name in countless permutations, as if to make it disappear -- in the process, inventing the cut-up technique that his lifelong friend, Beat novelist Burroughs, would make famous.
Featuring greats like Burroughs (in archival footage), singer Marianne Faithfull, singer/artist Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, poet John Giorno, rocker Iggy Pop, filmmaker Kenneth Anger, and artist/turntablist DJ Spooky, FLicKeR is a hypnotic documentary.
Taking the dream machine as the basis of its explorations, FLicKeR asks crucial questions about the nature of art and consciousness, and imagines a humanity liberated to explore its creativity in complete freedom.
Brion Gysin (1916-1986) was a multimedia artist and mystic most famous in his lifetime for inventing a system called The Cut Ups, often credited to his best friend and soul mate the Beat writer William S. Burroughs. Traversing many nationalities, Gysin was a Sufi initiate, Secret knowledge. Dream Machine 1960 at the Beat Hotel after experiencing flicker near Marseilles tried everything to market and sell his ticket. Control systems kif. Yes? Hello? Aligned with Breton's surrealists but to crushing defeat, taken off the wall the night before, doubts remain. Morocco Atlas mountains Jajouka musicians Brion Jones recorded died Kurt Cobain had a Dream Machine. I am That I am. Junk is no good baby. Grid patterns. Hassan I Sabbah. Man is a bad animal. Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
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Biz and Scott explain their methodology on a visit to Toronto in 1987. BIG UP! Flemingdon
Biz and Scott explain their methodology on a visit to Toronto in 1987. BIG UP! Flemingdon Park !
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excerpt from Gordon Monahan's SPEAKER SWINGING video ...
Gordon Monahan is one of Canad
excerpt from Gordon Monahan's SPEAKER SWINGING video ...
Gordon Monahan is one of Canada's most
consistently innovative and creative composers.
Gordon Monahan creates music, sound sculpture, sound installation, and computer-controlled sound environments that span various genres from avant garde concert music to multi-media installation and sound art.
Check out his new CD THEREMIN IN THE RAIN and the recently re-released SPEAKER SWINGING & PIANO MECHANICS CD.
Speaker Swinging is a performance for three or more spinging loudspeakers and nine sine wave/sawtooth oscillators. It is inspired by hearing the Doppler Effect produced by such things as moving vehiclies with broadcasting sound systems, airplanes, Leslie speakers, and other moving sound sources. The subsequent acoustical processes of phasing, vibrato, and tremolo are fundamental to the work, as are the elements of sweat, struggle, fear, and seduction. The idea for the piece grew out of a desire to animate the typical electronic music concert and in effect, to realise the loudspeaker as a valid electronic instrument in itself.
The primary focus of the piece is physical - the physical struggle to produce sound that is acoustically sculpted by motion. The Doppler modulations are not actually being broadcast through the speakers themselves, but are formed through continuous sound source movement in space. As the Doppler-modulatedd waves reflect off of the surfaces in the space, an aural sculpture is delineated by architecture.
The sound material broadcast through the speakers is intentionally minimal so that, on one hand, the Doppler Effect is most noticeable, and on the other hand, the use of basic sound material denotes the feeling of a simple science experiment. The nine oscillators are played live during the performance, where a progressive layering of tones and tunings is explored through various frequency registers, from less than 1 Hz. up to 8000 Hz.
The first performance of Speaker Swinging took place in July 1982, at Mercer Union gallery in Toronto. Several hundred performances have been presented worldwide since.
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CEILIDH IS A NOVA SCOTIA DUCK TOLLING RETRIEVER from LITTLE RIVER KENNEL IN NOVA SCOTIA.
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This is an excerpt from a 2003 performance in a club in Paris of John Oswald's plunderphon
This is an excerpt from a 2003 performance in a club in Paris of John Oswald's plunderphonic solo dance opera lecture Spinvolver.
The rapper/choreonast is Susanna Hood.
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"Qui was created by John Oswald and Laurel MacDonald. The singers in the video, in order o
"Qui was created by John Oswald and Laurel MacDonald. The singers in the video, in order of appearance are : Sahar Zarif, Andrea Koziol, Pat Patrick, Aki Takahashi, Mitch Smolkin, Laurel MacDonald, and Tom
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