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This album contains 16 of Burroughs early cut-up tape experiments and spoken world pieces. White noise is inter cut with field recordings, samples and user manipulations, twisting and stretching the sounds in a series of collage based recordings. Listening to these recordings today, over 5 decades after they were first committed to tape in some cases, I’m struck by both the degraded crudeness of the techniques employed and just how widespread and polished they have become in the years since as other sound artists have taken their inspiration from them. I’ve been fascinated with the timbre of Burrough’s voice ever since I first heard it looped at the start of a Dälek track called Images of .44 Casings, his ravaged, croaky, insectoid voice intoning “images, millions of images, that’s what I eat” over and over in a paranoid but authoritative flow. It would appear that this duality would define his work in both what Burroughs expressed and the techniques he would use to express them. Comments are closed.
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AuthorMy name is Clay Sandford and I am currently studying an FDA in Film and Media Production at University Centre Weston. I have a keen interest in directing, cinematography and camera operating. Archives
April 2017
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