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Brion Gysin

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Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, Tangier by Allen Ginsberg

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Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master (Trapart Books 2018)

Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson & Jon Savage. Edited with notes by Andrew M. McKenzie. Introductions by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson.

Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was also a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become something of a cult figure.

One of the artists he inspired is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who collaborated with both Gysin and Burroughs in the 1970s, during his work with Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions. The interviews made by P-Orridge have since become part of a New Wave/Industrial mythos. This volume presents them in their entirety alongside three texts on Gysin by P-Orridge, plus an introduction. Additional material includes a substantial Gysin-interview by British punk journalist Jon Savage. This book is an exclusive insight into the mind of a man P-Orridge describes as “a kind of Leonardo da Vinci of the last century,” and a fantastic complement to existing biographies and monographs.

This amazing book is available as a paperback, hardback and in a bundle with a Genesis P-Orridge print edition.

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Please note: this book is now available on pre-order. Orders will be sent out late February 2018.

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A very cool photo from this book.

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Allen Ginsberg from “Song” Howl and Other Poems, 1956. Photo: Allen Ginsberg snapped by Peter Orlovsky

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Brion Gysin, Untitled 1960

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“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

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Photo: Diane Arbus, Susan Sontag on a Bed, New York, 1965

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Ferdinand Gouzon aux éditions Multiple Un livre autour de Daniel Pommereulle

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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.