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The Dreamachine (a contraction of Dream Machine) is a stroboscopic flickering light art device that produces eidetic visual stimuli. Description In its original form, a Dreamachine is a work of light art made from a cylinder with regularly spaced shapes cut out of its sides.
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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.[1][2] History In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits.
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Invented by Brion Gysin and Beat Sugar Gramps William Burroughs, the Dream Machine uses simple materials: construction board, exacto-knife, a 78 RPM record player and a light bulb. With these 4 realitively easily sourced goodies you can have yourself a doorway to eldritch dimensions and a lovely conversation piece for your next S&M tea party or.
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With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting and drawing, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by cursive Japanese "grass" script and Arabic script.
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The Dream Machine was invented by Brion Gysin and Ian Sommerville, a British mathematician and "systems engineer" who became William S. Burroughs's companion. It used a rotating perforated cylinder with a light inside it to produce flickering patterns that acted on the brain, inducing trance-like states.
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by Jason Louv Build a Dream Machine, Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' Device for Sober Hallucinations, for about fifty dollars The Dream Machine is a device for altering the brainwave frequency of the user and putting it into an alpha state, at which point it begins generating waking, sober hallucinations and internal "movies," on demand.
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Dream Machine William S. Burroughs, 1960s Columbia's Dream Machine has a Burroughs provenance, and according to James Grauerholz, Burroughs's executor, painted by Burroughs himself. Click the arrow of player below to see a video of the Dream Machine in operation The Dream Machine, 2009 Directed by Alan Govenar, produced by Documentary
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The Dream Machine, a device designed by Burroughs and Brion Gysin and constructed by Ian Sommerville, was designed to help stimulate brain activity and bring about a hallucinatory state. Creator. Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997 . Gysin, Brion. Sommerville, Ian. Date. 1960s. MODS. Key Date. 1960 - 1969. Type of Date. approximate.
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WNYC radio went to the Brion Gysin retrospective at the New Museum in NYC to ask people what they saw and felt when viewing the Dream Machine, a kinetic ligh.
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Described as 'the world's first work of art to be seen with your eyes closed,' Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' seminal invention, the dreamachine, serves as the primary inspiration for Dream.
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The original Dreamachine was invented by the poet Brion Gysin and William Burroughs' "systems advisor" Ian Sommerville in 1960 while residing at the Beat Hotel. It consisted of a metal cylinder, no more than a couple of foot high, with a series of holes cut out of it.. Brion Gysin and his Dream Machine William Burroughs c 1970 London.
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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. In its original form, a dreamachine is made from a cylinder with slits cut in the sides.
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the 'dream machine' is a stroboscopic flicker device that produces visual stimuli. it was an invention by cult figure brion gysin, writer w. s. burroughs and scientist ian sommerville in.
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One Yellow Rabbit paints a hallucinogenic chronicle of the American Beat movement, including William S. Burroughs and his Canadian mentor Brion Gysin. At the centre of the 1950s Beat circle, Burroughs and Gysin worked tirelessly to build the enigmatic Dream Machine, a device that used flickering light to alter brain waves and plunge the user.
Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your
Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, the Only Work of Art You Look at With Your Eyes Closed It was Gysin who invented cut-ups, in his sound and film experiments with mathematician Ian Sommerville, using techniques Burroughs would later take up in his own occult experiments.
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The New Museum's "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" is intended as New York's reintroduction to this painter, poet, innovator, and total subversive, and that it will be. Gysin was the artist's.