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previous artist: barry guy		there are 2 titles featuring brion gysin in stock. they are listed below.		next artist: gärden söund

$59.79

back in stock as of
september 2nd, 2011

first in stock on
may 1st, 2009

threads:
sound-art
sound-poetry

alga marghen (italy) #alga 12 lp

brion gysin “bruits du beaubourg” long playing record

bruits du beaubourg (part 1) (19:51)
bruits du beaubourg (part 2) (20:20)

alga marghen press release...

b r i o n g y s i n
“bruits du beaubourg”
(cat no. alga012).
lp record

brion gysin (january 19, 1916 in taplow, buckinghamshire, uk - july 13, 1986 in paris, france) was a writer and painter. he is best known for his rediscovery of tristan tzara's cut-up technique while cutting through a newspaper upon which he was trimming some mats. he shared his discovery with his friend william s. burroughs, who subsequently put the cut-up technique to good use and dramatically changed the landscape of american literature.

educated in england, at downside college (1932-34), he moved to paris where he studied at the sorbonne. among those he met at this time are renowned members of the surrealist group, including max ernst, salvador and gala dali and picasso. gysin’s work was included in the surrealist drawings exhibition in paris in 1935 (galerie quatre).

he first visited the algerian sahara in 1938, a journey that was to have a deep and lasting influence on his life. equally significant to the form of his later giant landscape paintings were the years he spent in new york working as assistant to broadway stage designer irene sharaff (1940-43). in 1953, having returned to north africa, gysin opened the thousand and one nights restaurant, where the master musicians of joujouka played an ‘extended residency’.

gysin altered the cut-up technique to produce what he called permutation poems in which a single phrase was repeated several times, with the words rearranged in a different order with each reiteration. many of these permutations were derived using a random sequence generator in an early computer program written by ian sommerville. he also experimented with permutation on recording tape, by splicing together the sounds of a gun firing recorded at different amplitudes in the bbc radiophonic workshop thus producing 'pistol poem.' the piece was subsequently used as a theme in 1960 for the performance in paris of le domaine poetique, a showcase for experimental works by people like gysin, françoise dufrêne, bernard heidsieck, and henri chopin.

a cult from the beginnings ...

$13.01

back in stock as of
june 13th, 2011

first in stock on
june 22nd, 2007

threads:
sound-poetry
art-punk
concert-recordings

sub rosa (belgium) #sr 247 cd

brion gysin “live in london 1982” compact disc

live in london 1982

sub rosa press release...

live in london 1982
brion gysin
with ramuntcho matta
sr247

autumn 1982, brixton, london, brion gysin, the eternal accomplice of william burroughs, renews the methods of performance by reciting texts, hastily brought together:

tessa, a member of slits,
steve, of rip, rig and panic,
gile, of penguin café orchestra,
and ramuntcho matta on guitar.

ramuntcho, in the style of brion, called this session 'white funk'.

most of the texts were written upon meeting burroughs, at the time of the invention of the cut-up. the influence that brion gysin has had on contemporary music may never be taken fully into account, particularly when he introduced brian jones, of the rolling stones, to the shepard's music of joujouka. those times were still audacious: the music was created during the sound-checks ! musically, the choice of traditional instruments expresses the desire to be free of machines (because, as burroughs says, 'we ourselves are machines.').

this recording is evidence of the extraordinary creativity and spontaneity of the musical and artistic scene at that time. it hasn't aged a bit. beyond the nostalgia inspired by the invocation of that bygone cultural scene, there is a call for a creativity of which it is difficult to find examples today.

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