Today is Brion Gysin’s birthday. I searched the tag “Brion Gysin” at our Patreon to see what came up. So many posts! Here is a track we made celebrating Gysin that is not available anywhere else, as well as a link to a live performance we did in Cali, Colombia in 2018 where I read from this cut-up collage I created for Gysin, and many fun pictures from years past, including the book launch for The Fenris Wolf 8 at Atlantis Books in London in 2016 and a visit to the legendary October Gallery the same year.
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In classic cut-up style, I’ve cut texts from the various posts and pasted them below. Enjoy! And if you want more of this in your life, join us at the Magic Monday level (or above) at Patreon if you aren’t there already, where Carl and I post inspiring magical and creative content like this every week on Mondays.
xo V (&C)
“This year Carl and I having been giving talks about Brion Gysin to celebrate the release of Carl and Gen’s new book Brion Gysin - His Name Was Master released by Trapart earlier this year. I’ve also been facilitating workshops on the theory and practice of the cut-up method at various events and conferences as well as online. On this, Brion Gysin’s day of death, I want to share with you an unreleased track I created for him from a reading of a cut-up I made utilising his “In Present Time” as the foundation. If you listen closely you can hear Gysin’s voice drawn out and whispering in the background...”
“Remembering our adopted ancestor Brion Gysin on this his day of birth! The above image is a cut-up collage I created using Gysin’s permutated poem PROCLAIM PRESENT TIME OVER. For more on that process, I recommend grabbing a copy of Burroughs & Gysin’s book The Third Mind (1978). And of course Trapart’s Brion Gysin - His Name Was Master,interviews by Genesis P-Orridge and Peter Christopherson (2018). I recorded a reading of the poem, which Carl set to music. It’s a great idea to incorporate elements of our ancestors when doing this kind of work. I also used part of this poem at a live performance we did in Cali, Colombia, summer of 2018. You can listen to that here.”
“Below, I’ve also included some writings about the various ways Carl, artist and magical practitioner Katelan Foisy, and I have worked with the cut-up method over the years. I share this as inspiration for your own cut-up journey!
If you want to learn more about Brion Gysin, be sure to check out this incredible book Brion Gysin: His Name Was Master: (Expanded Edition) by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with contributions from Peter Christopherson, Carl Abrahamsson, Kathelin Gray, and Paul “Bee” Hampshire. Enjoy!”
