As someone who once owned a homemade dream machine, it’s nice to see this old relic get a sonic reassessment. Our dear friends at Unexplained Sounds Group start the year off with yet another brilliant experimental music compilation. From the label’s Bandcamp site:
“The Dreamachine, conceived by Brion Gysin with Ian Sommerville in 1959, was art for closed eyes, a device for turning vision inward. Around it, Gysin and William S. Burroughs pursued ways to break systems of control—linguistic, social, perceptual advancing cut-ups, trance, and the hypothesis of The Third Mind, a composite intelligence born from collaboration. This compilation invites contemporary artists to continue that experiment. Through hypnotic repetition, immersive drones, and destabilized timbres, these pieces court micro-hallucinations and altered listening, generating new maps of consciousness more than half a century on.
Also available as part of the Modern Mythologies collection (W.S. Burroughs, B. Gysin, P.K. Dick, and W. Gibson).”
