The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin

Content type
Creative Work
Author
Brion Gysin
Contributor
Ian Sommerville
Year
Archive URL
UbuWeb Sound Archive
URL
Permutation Poems (Nick Montfort's Reimplementation)
Language
English
Publication Type
Performance
Record Status
Approved record
Tags
permutation
sound poetry
text generation
Description (in English)

A series of sound poetry recordings for which Brion Gysin was invited to perform for the BBC radio in 1960. These permutation poems include "I Am That I Am" (1959), "which is a cyclical, randomized representation of the three words contained in that phrase." (Funkhouser 2007:39).

Multimedia
Contributors note

Ian Sommerville programmed a software to generate these computer poems, which was reenacted by Joseph Moore as the "Permutation" software for the exhibition Brion Gysin: Dream Machine (2010) at the New Museum in New York.