http://brightlightsfilm.com/39/cutups1.php#.UvJbCM7Sads This just screams "Fluxus" to me... Maybe ca. 1960? *********************************************************** Allison A. Smith Archivist, Wisconsin Public Radio 821 University Avenue, Suite 7151 Madison, WI 53706-1497 P (608) 263-8806 F (608) 263-9763 [log in to unmask] It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on - Marilyn Monroe *********************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Greg Schmitz Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 02:30 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] William S. Burroughs Centenary On 02/04/2014 09:57 PM, David Lewis wrote: > Today is the 100th birthday of author William S. Burroughs. One > technique that he pioneered was the audio tape "cut up;" a random > collection of spoken word bits achieved by turning on and turning off > a tape machine at random intervals during newscasts. His efforts > towards this end occurred years before anyone else worked in this way, > and it would later become a major component in industrial music, > particularly in the 80s. > > This is one of the few early examples of such work ever to be > published. I have long wanted to truly date it, as "Early 1960s" is as > close as anyone ever got to a date, and I'm sure Bill had no idea > himself. The source appears to be New York City radio, flipping across > the dial. WINS is mentioned at one point. > Of course, fragments are fragments, and the aim was to achieve > combinations of fragments that would tend to transcend the meaning of > what was spoken and to create new meaning. But as close as I can get > to a date for this is late April, early May 1965, owing to references > to snipers in the Dominican Republic during the Civil War there. > > Can anyone else get closer, or am I on the wrong track? > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6N2PZbkxzk > > David N. Lewis > Lebanon, OH Ahh, "The Junky's Christmas" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Junky%27s_Christmas> - required listening every holiday season. --g To the end of his life, Mr. Burroughs remained pessimistic about the future for humankind. In "Ghost of a Chance," he lamented the destruction of the rain forests and their creatures and wrote: "All going, to make way for more and more devalued human stock, with less and less of the wild spark, the priceless ingredient - energy into matter. A vast mudslide of soulless sludge." "William S. Burroughs, the Beat Writer Who Distilled His Raw Nightmare Life, Dies at 83" - from obit by Richard Severo. NY Times, 97 August 4