The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory narrative technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The...
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Chaos magic (section Cut-up technique)
maintain a stable sense of self. The cut-up technique is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged, often at random,...
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Dada (section Cut-up technique)
collage" technique, involving dropping torn scraps of paper onto a larger sheet and then pasting the pieces wherever they landed. Cut-up technique is an...
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the Romanian surrealist Gherasim Luca. Cut-up technique is a literary form or method in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new...
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a part of the chaos magic movement, and this technique – along with others such as the cut-up technique – were further developed and commented on by later...
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and stories. With Brion Gysin, Burroughs popularized the cut-up, an aleatory literary technique, featuring heavily in such works of his as The Nova Trilogy...
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Nightcore (redirect from Sped-up song)
tracks, a few of them also incorporating production techniques outside of pitch-shifting and speeding up the source material, such as "Mile High" by Chipped...
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Brion Gysin (section Burroughs on the Gysin cut-up)
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...
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author William S. Burroughs. It was originally composed using the cut-up technique partly from manuscripts belonging to The Word Hoard. It is the first...
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part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in'...
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mainly in Tangier, between 1954 and 1958. All three novels use the cut-up technique that Burroughs invented in cooperation with painter and poet Brion...
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programmed a random-sequence generator that Brion Gysin used in his cut-up technique. He and Gysin also collaborated in 1961 in developing the Dreamachine...
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features various elements with origins in surrealist techniques, fanzines, collage, cut-up technique, stream of consciousness, and metafiction, with very...
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YouTube Poop (section Style and techniques)
before the internet, with DigitalTrends's Luke Dormehl listing the cut-up technique of William Burroughs and sampling in hip-hop as examples. Dormehl also...
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Nova Trilogy of novels by William S. Burroughs, each written using cut-up technique. The term is seldom applied outside media. One example is the "Marshall...
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81. ISBN 019513835X. Ben Tousey (2003). Acting Your Dreams: Use Acting Techniques to Interpret Your Dreams. Ben Tousey. pp. 118–119. ISBN 1-4140-0542-3...
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Homage (arts) (category Cinematic techniques)
Paderewski), a tribute album (Homage to Charles Parker) or a sample. Digital techniques used to generate many forms of media make it easy to borrow from other...
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literary essays and writing showcasing the cut-up technique popularized by Burroughs and Gysin in the 1960s. Cut-ups involves taking texts, cutting the pages...
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Décollage (category Artistic techniques)
unstuck". Examples of décollage include etrécissements and cut-up technique. A similar technique is the lacerated poster, a poster in which one has been...
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and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined...
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mechanisms of intertextuality. In literary usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's...
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band's frontman Rivers Cuomo explored new songwriting techniques, such as using a cut-up technique, and adding potential lyrics to a spreadsheet and including...
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for the creation of the "cut-up" technique, a technique (similar to Tzara's "Dadaist Poem") in which words and phrases are cut from a newspaper or other...
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the two stories together in the manner of William S. Burroughs' "cut up" technique. In essence, this method involves various story fragments and ideas...
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Collage (category Artistic techniques)
Appropriation (art) Assemblage (art) Card-making Computer graphics Cut-up technique Décollage Détournement Illustration Mixed media Panography Paper craft...
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Plunderphonics (category Musical techniques)
artist and no other material. Influenced by William S. Burroughs' cut-up technique, he began making plunderphonic recordings in the 1970s. In 1988 he...
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found poetry include free form excerpting and remixing, erasure, cento and cut-up. Marquive Stenzel describes the Dadaism movement with its readymade philosophy...
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Burroughs, whom he met in 1973, enthusiastically incorporating his 'cut-up' technique as a method to harness unconscious creative processes. Stark suggests...
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Remix (category Musical techniques)
used the cut-up technique developed by Brion Gysin to remix language in the 1960s. Various textual sources (including his own) would be cut literally...
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