Web Sound :: William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) William S. Burroughs Sings (with Kurt Cobain, REM, Laurie Anderson & more) William S. Burroughs reads Junky, written 1953 [hide/show playlist] Real English Tea Made Here It's An Experiment 0:44 Cut-Ins With Dutch Schultz 17:32 Recorded in New York City, circa summer 1965. 23 Skidoo 6:14 Recorded at Burroughs' loft at 210 Center Street in Lower Manhattan, June 1965. An invisible hand presses the record button on the radio, then stops: advertisements vying with weather reports for the New York area are intercut with news stories about death in its various forms – murder, plane crashes, foreign wars. Recorded in 1965, the 33-minute ‘Puertos De Los Santos’ is one of the rare and previously unreleased William S. These tapes were recorded as an extension of the cut-up method that Burroughs and Brion Gysin had been applying in print since the very late 1950s and were still working on in the mid-’60s. There is a direct link between these tapes and pop music. Notes
William S. Burroughs (USA) For information on events celebrating the William S. Burroughs centenary please see the official Burroughs100 website. William S. William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914 in St. A Harvard graduate, Burroughs followed his fascinations through the underworlds and subcultures of international cities including Tangiers, Paris, New York, London, Chicago, New Orleans, Vienna, Dubrovnik, Budapest, Athens, and Mexico City. In 1981, Burroughs moved his home to Lawrence, Kansas, where he began to make shotgun art. Exhibitions All out of time and into space
Burroughs: 10 Years After Burroughs with one of his cats Burroughs posing for a portrait photo by local artist and KU professor emeritus Roger Shimomura William Burroughs with his close friend, Jim McCrary. Paintings by William Burroughs in the back porch of his house on Learnard Ave. Burroughs, Jim McCrary (middle) and S. Burroughs and baby at a Kansas City art opening. Burroughs' memorial service at Liberty Hall on Aug. 6, 1997, four days after he died ... Burroughs at home with one of his many cats Burroughs (left to right), Steve Tubbert, Mark Henning, George Kaull and Jim McCrary during a ... Burroughs at target practice with friend George Kaull William Burroughs with an unidentified guest and Jim McCrary. Burroughs at target practice Burroughs by his garage on Learnard Ave. Photo taken in Lawrence for the 1993 Gap ad campaign Burroughs in Esquire Magazine Japan shortly after his death in 1997. Burroughs and Patti Smith in September 1995 Burroughs with one of his cats at the Outhouse "Pour William S. Burroughs recording.
William S. Burroughs class on creative reading - Part 1 : Burroughs, William S. <div style="padding:5px; font-size:80%; width:300px; background-color:white; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; border:1px dashed gray;"> Internet Archive's<!--'--> in-browser audio player requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature. </div> First half of a William S. This audio is part of the collection: Naropa Poetics Audio ArchivesIt also belongs to collection: Audio Books & Poetry Artist/Composer: Burroughs, William S.Date: 1979-08-13 00:00:00Label / Recorded by: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Creative Commons license: Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial Individual Files Be the first to write a review Downloaded 8,339 times Reviews
towers open fire : McLuhan's Notes on Burroughs On America's Bicentennial, July 4 '76, I was standing on the top floor of one of the towers of New York City's World Trade Center viewing the Tall Ships' Armada sailing up the Hudson River. Over the loudspeaker broadcasting the ebullient ceremonies I heard the interviewer address Marshall McLuhan with a question about his thoughts on the future of America as it entered its third centennial.With no hesitation McLuhan answered:"In one word, apocalypse." "The central theme of Naked Lunch is the strategy of by-passing the new electric environment by becoming an environment oneself. The moment one achieves this environmental state all things and people are submitted to you to be processed. Whether a man takes the road of junk or the road of art, the entire world must submit to his processing. The world becomes his 'content'. Marshall McLuhan,Notes on Burroughs, Nation Magazine,p.517, December 28, 1964. Marshall McLuhan - “Notes on Burroughs” (1964) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The keys to.