One of our favourite writers here at IBC, William Gibson has poked his head back into cyberspace after an extended sabbatical from his blog with an article in Wired magazine that compares beat writer William Burroughs’ ‘cut up method’ of writing with Lee “Scratch” Perry and the origins of music sampling. It really does not get much better than this.
Posted by Kevin Broome
Tags: Reading
Anonymous (August 10th, 2005)
Fabulous article. Brilliant to get insight into the influences of someone so very influential himself. Curious that his references to remixing and sampling seem to run parallel to how his own work has been so often referenced and absorbed into the modern vernacular.