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cut-up technique
noun
- a technique of writing involving cutting up lines or pages of prose and rearranging these fragments, popularized by the novelist William Burroughs (1914â97)
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Handwritten lyrics for songs like âFame,â Heroesâ and âAshes to Ashesâ will also be on display, including examples of Bowieâs cut-up technique.
The collection also features Brian Eno's EMS synthesizer, used on Bowie's 1977 albums Low and Heroes; and examples of his "cut-up" technique for lyric writing, which involved literally chopping up existing texts to generate new meanings from the rearranged pieces.
Like many of Burroughsâs rock progeny, Bowie was an adherent of the cut-up technique that originated with the Surrealists but was popularized in the late 1950s by Burroughs and the artist Brion Gysin.
He even borrowed some of Burroughsâs methods, riffing on Burroughsâs âcut-upâ technique in his own verse.
The pandrogyne was their way of applying Burroughsâs and Gysinâs âCut-Upâ technique to their own flesh.
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