RE: [microsound] eno

[David Fodel <DFodel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually Gysin turned Burroughs on to the cut-up method:

"One day...while cutting a mount for a drawing, Brion Gysin [an artist
friend] sliced though a pile of newspapers with his Stanley blade, and made
a mosaic out of the strips of newspapers, because it looked visually
interesting. Then when he read it he thought it was hilarious. When
Burroughs got back from lunch, Brion said, 'By the way, look at this.' Brion
thought it was just an amusing accident, in the line of the old Surrealist
games. But for Burroughs, who was looking for ways to escape from antiquated
concepts of the novel, from the nineteenth-century stucture of moving
characters around within a plot, Gysin's cut-up newspapers switched on the
electric light bulb over the cartoon character's head."

David Fodel
Publishing Systems Manager
Wild Oats Markets
3375 Mitchell Lane
Boulder, CO 80301
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> 
> see brian gysin, as well... 
> and throbbing gristle... 
> :both influenced by burroughs' cut-ups.
> this is a decent article on the topic (somewhat):
> 
> called... Deconstructive Surgery: Self, Sampling and the Question of 
> Authorship
> http://www.iath.virginia.edu/courses/encr481/rhodes.paper.html
> 
> matt
> 
>