The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop BarHamon
Posted on 2008-11-12 by cl880 RBML collects more than just books and manuscripts; we also have a lot of what librarians call realia—real life objects. Pictured here is our Dream Machine, which comes from William S. Burroughs, via his collaborator & one time assistant Steven Lowe.
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The Dream Machine, a device designed by Burroughs and Brion Gysin and constructed by Ian Sommerville, was designed to help stimulate brain activity and bring about a hallucinatory state. Creator. Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 . Gysin, Brion. Sommerville, Ian. Date. 1960s. MODS. Key Date. 1960 - 1969. Type of Date. approximate.
William S. Burroughs with Dream Machine William S. Burroughs Photo
The Dream Machine, a device designed by Burroughs and Brion Gysin and constructed by Ian Sommerville, was designed to help stimulate brain activity and bring about a hallucinatory state. Alan Govenar directed this short video showing the Dream Machine in operation. Creator. Govenar, Alan B., 1952-
Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your
The original Dreamachine was invented by the poet Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' "systems advisor" Ian Sommerville in 1960 while residing at the Beat Hotel. It consisted of a metal cylinder, no more than a couple of foot high, with a series of holes cut out of it.. Brion Gysin and his Dream Machine William Burroughs c 1970 London.
Dream Machine Book by Martha Maker, Xindi Yan Official Publisher
The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain. In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides.
Brion Gysin & the Dream Machine Dream machine, Pop culture, Story writer
the 'dream machine' is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. it was an invention by cult figure brion gysin, writer w. s. burroughs and scientist ian sommerville in.
The Dream Machine Shop at Matter
Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments.
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The Dreamachine (a contraction of Dream Machine) is a stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli. Description In its original form, a Dreamachine is a work of light art made from a cylinder with regularly spaced shapes cut out of its sides.
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The Dream Machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal “movies,†on demand.. Burroughs wrote about Dream Machines extensively in his novels, where he depicted them as a weapon for the freedom of.
William Burroughs Soft Machine 1961 Olympia press first edition / 1st
by Jason Louv Build a Dream Machine, Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' Device for Sober Hallucinations, for about fifty dollars The Dream Machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal "movies," on demand.
Brion Gysin, The Undervalued Innovator Art News by Kooness
With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script.
The Dream Machine, Brion Gysin and WIlliam Burroughs' Magick Device
Described as 'the world's first work of art to be seen with your eyes closed,' Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' seminal invention, the dreamachine, serves as the primary inspiration for Dream.
BURROUGHS 23 photos of William Burroughs by Charles Gatewood
The New Museum's "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" is intended as New York's reintroduction to this painter, poet, innovator, and total subversive, and that it will be. Gysin was the artist's.
Story Dream Machine™ Official Little Tikes Website
WNYC radio went to the Brion Gysin retrospective at the New Museum in NYC to ask people what they saw and felt when viewing the Dream Machine, a kinetic ligh.
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS IN THE DREAM MACHINE DVD
The dreamachine (or dream machine) is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. Artist Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs's "systems adviser" Ian Sommerville created the dreamachine after reading William Grey Walter's book, The Living Brain.[1][2] History In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits.
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One Yellow Rabbit paints a hallucinogenic chronicle of the American Beat movement, including William S. Burroughs and his Canadian mentor Brion Gysin. At the centre of the 1950s Beat circle, Burroughs and Gysin worked tirelessly to build the enigmatic Dream Machine, a device that used flickering light to alter brain waves and plunge the user.
