Friday, 1 May 2009

William S. Burrough's lectures @ the Naropa Institute

Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso & William Burroughs at Naropa Institute.
A whole series of lectures and readings by WSB can be downloaded here.
From the fevered imagination of exilestreet at 14:56

5 comments:

  1. mogadonia1 May 2009 at 21:46

    Excellent.
    I downloaded a few of these some time back.
    Fascinating stuff.
    I must go and check out some of the others I haven't yet heard, thanks for the reminder!

    One I can highly recommend is the one about the 'Ethics Of Wishing'.
    About some guy who built this 'Wishing Machine' out of random bits of machinery, which apparently worked!
    Although, like the story The Monkey's Paw, there's a certain danger involved, of which Burroughs devises a set of rules to safeguard against.

    I found with a lot of these recordings, the Q & As which followed the lectures were more interesting than the lectures themselves.
    There's a fair bit of Cold War stuff discussed which is a bit tedious and not all that interesting, but many of the subjects discusssed are most fascinating.

    Not sure if it's up on archive.org, I managed to get it from emule quite some time back, but there's an amazing lecture by Aldous Huxley on the subject of mind control about, which I can also highly recommend (and which is probably more relevant today than when it was recorded)

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  2. exilestreet1 May 2009 at 23:52

    With a quick search of the archive I couldn't find the Huxley tape...can you contact me at monastreet@gmail.com as I would really like to hear that...yr pig microbes gave me the best laugh for yonks!!!
    regards/

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  3. Unknown2 May 2009 at 02:07

    I sampled one of those interviews with Timothy Leary & William S. Burroughs for this piece:

    http://trnsnd.net/tripmix.mp3

    I recorded it four or five years ago as an experiment.

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  4. exilestreet2 May 2009 at 03:15

    2Chris/
    I really enjoyed that tripmix track.
    Regards/

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  5. Unknown7 May 2009 at 03:10

    Thanks Mona.

    Not sure if you'll see this since it's so buried on the blog now, but I was doing experiments with samples for a while. Here's a track I did with some of the audio from the voyager mission golden record:

    http://trnsnd.net/earth8.mp3

    Did I ever point you at my band's MySpace page?

    http://myspace.com/ph0n0n

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