#briongysin

[asalvadorsala]

Dreamachine, 1960 #BrionGysin #IanSommerville »Had a transcendental storm of colour visions today in the bus going to Marseilles. We ran through a long avenue of trees and I closed my eyes against the setting sun. An overwhelming flood of intensely bright patterns in supernatural colours exploded behind my eyelids: a multidimensional kaleidoscope whirling out through space. I was swept out of time. I was in a world of infinite number. The vision stopped abruptly as we left the trees.« Brion Gysin, diary entry, 21 December 1958. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf_tWRNtlY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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William S Burroughs with writer, photographer, & editor, Udo Breger, Lawrence Kansas,  March 19, 1992. Breger, among other things, published the underground magazine SOFT NEED, a collaboration he, Burroughs and Brion Gysin started in 1973. Earlier this year he published the final issue, SN#23,   which includes exclusive materiel from Burroughs and Brion Gysin as well as multi-media contributions by eighty international authors and artists.  (photo: Allen Ginsberg. Soft Need 23 Cover photo of Ian Sommerville, Udo Breger)

#udobreger #williamSburroughs #softneed #softneed23 #briongysin #iansommerville #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #nakedlunch #queer #thetickethatexploded #cutups #dreammachine #counterculture #thethirdmind (at Lawrence, Kansas)

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Gregory Corso & Brion Gysin at Gysin’s apartment opposite Cente Pomidou, Paris 1973.  Photo Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate)

It was though Jane Bowles that Brion was introduced to Morocco & eventually Burroughs, Corso and the beat writers  whose lives he would completely change.   Jane met him in Paris in 1938 soon introducing him to Paul. A decade later they invited him to stay with them in Tangier,  and by December 1954 Brion had opened up his restaurant, 1001 Nights,  in the Marshan quarter. Tho he and Burroughs had met several times there, they never quite connected till they ran into each other in Paris in 1958, when soon after Burroughs suggested he take a room at what would become the Beat Hotel.

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Gregory Corso,  William Burroughs,  Ian Sommerville and Michael Portman,  we all took our cameras out under blue sky, brilliant sunny day. Gregory Corso’d been gambling with Francis Bacon at Casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brion Gysin then in town, assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria garden. (Photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg) • #gregorycorso #iansommerville #williamsburroughs #michaelportman #briongysin #francisbacon #tangier #dreammachine #nakedlunch #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #writers #writersofinstagram #poet (at Tangier, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9KCydghLRw/?igshid=1d5e357ozp3yd

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“Michael Portman, ill-starred English aristocrat, then staying next door room to Wm-Burroughs at Villa Muneria, studying Alpha rhythms, strobiscope "Dream Machine" & letters with Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Dorian Gray youth, he died in mid-age, alcohol and other dissippations. Tanger 1961.” Allen later writes in a  letter to Kerouac “Bill (William Burroughs) … was doing a thousand interesting things but difficult to have rapport with since he had a new acolyte, an angelic looking narcissistic young English lord who sat and simpered with Bill at us for months and never left us alone with him ..  (photo and captions: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate) #williamsburroughs #michaelportman #briongysin #tangier #nakedlunch #jackkerouac #morocco #beatgeneration #literature #literary #dreammachine #hotelelmuniria (at Tangier, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0RfBM9Bis-/?igshid=1e7oe3ave8829

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Bill Burroughs “impersonating a detective with magnifying glass in hand...Sherlock Holmes, or shabby Chinese detective in Saigon...look at that stain on the suit.” He took photos of sky, boys, streets, then photos of these photos, by stages drawing forth essences re-photographing images of boy-stuff or blue sky, here collaged under glass plates on his bureau. Some cut-up photos from magazines, left. Calligraphy on wardrobe closet Burroughs' adaptation of Brion Gysin's brushwork. Tangier summer 1961. Bill's words above 1988. (Photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg) #williamsburroughs #briongysin #allenginsberg #beatgeneration #tangier #nakedlunch #queer #gay #poetrycommunity #photography #ontheroad #oldbulllee #junkie #novaexpress (at Tangier, Morocco) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvSZFyJHTl8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bil4087zfhnt

[rawsin23]

Today another poem from the man @amicusadastra from his book Written Matter on @revelorepress ✨ and I finished my first long form cut-up essay ✂️✂️✨ @seanwoodwardart @carl.abrahamsson #cutups #psychoanalysis #poetry #williamburroughs #briongysin #breyerporridge #thirdmind #23rdMind https://www.instagram.com/p/ChZ7gzvNOLP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=