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8 October 2007, by William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
Excerpt from tape made in 1960 by Brion Gysin at BBC Studios in London, using BG’s permutational technique.
Break Through in Grey Room is a collection of William S. Burroughs’ speeches and cut-up recordings performed and recorded between 1960 and 1976. Some are actual pieces, and others are discussions of the pieces, such as "Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups," which he read at Boulder’s Naropa University in 1976. Burroughs’ incredibly detached voice only sounds better with age. He seems (...)