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Brion Gysin
Sign in to saveBritish-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist (1916-1986)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1916
- Died
- 1986
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Fault lines
- Légendes de Brion Gysin
- A la recherche de Gysin a Tanger
- To Master, a Long Goodnight The Story of Uncle Tom, a Historical Narrative
- The process
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Film & TV
Brion Gysin (19 January 1916 – 13 July 1986) was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs. With the engineer Ian Sommerville he also invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed…
Known for
- Nova '78 — Self (archive footage)2026
- FLicKeR — Self (archive footage)2009
- Destroy All Rational Thought — Self1998
- The Dream Machine1986
- Ornette: Made in America — Self1986
- The Final Academy Documents1984
- Burroughs: The Movie — Self1984
- Ghost at No. 91982
- Psychic TV: First Transmission1982
- The Cut-Ups1966
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1916-01-19
- Active to
- 1986-07-13
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5,361
- Total plays
- 39,361
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Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a writer and painter. He is best known for his rediscovery of Tristan Tzara's cut-up technique while cutting through a newspaper upon which he was trimming some mats. He did many experiments with cut-ups while living in Tangiers (where incidentally, he established with the Moroccan painter Mohamed Hamri a cafe called the 1001 Nights in order to employ members of the Master Musicians of Joujouka so that he could hear them as frequently as possibl
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Taplow
- Place of death
- 4th arrondissement of Paris
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- poetry
- Movement
- Beat Generation
- Official website
- briongysin.com
- Image
- Portrait of Brion Gysin LCCN2004662972.jpg
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- cause of death
- lung cancer
- date of birth
- 1916-01-01
- date of death
- 1986-01-01
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- Commons category
- Brion Gysin
- has works in the collection
- Musée d'art moderne de Paris
- birth name
- John Clifford Brian Gysin
- manner of death
- natural causes
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