"Burroughs, William S. - The Electronic Revolution" - читать интересную книгу автора (Burroughs William S)

RECORDINGS PLAYED BACK ON LOCATION IN THE MANNER I WILL NOW DESCRIBE CAN
PRODUCE EFFECTS. No doubt sexual and doctored tapes would be more powerful.
But some of the power in the word is released by simple playback as anyone
can verify who will take the time to experiment ...I quote from some notes
on these playback experiments.

Friday July 28, 1972 ...Plan 28 at a glance ...First some remarks on the
tape recorder experiments started by Ian Sommerville in 196. these involved
not only street, pub, party, subway recordings but also PLAYBACK on location.
when I returned to London from the States in 1966 he had already accumulated
a considerable body of data and developed a technology. He had discovered
that playback on location can produce definite effects. Playing back
recordings of an accident can produce another accident. In 1966 I was staying
at the Rushmore Hotel, 11 Trebovir Road, Earl's Court, and we carried out a
number of these operations: street recordings, cut in of other material,
playback in the streets ...(I recall I had cut in fire engines and while
playing this tape back in the street fire engines passed.) These experiments
were summarized in THE INVISIBLE GENERATION ... ( I wonder if anybody but
CIA agents read this article or thought of putting these techniques into
actual operation) Anybody who carries out similar experiments over a period
of time will turn up more 'coincidences' than the law of averages allows. The
tech can be extended by taking still or moving pictures during playback. I
have frequently observed this operation: make recordings and take pictures of
some location you wish to discomode or destroy, now play recordings back and
take more pictures, will result in accidents, fires, removals. especially the
latter The target moves. We carried out this operation with the Scientology
Center at 37 Fitzroy Street. Some months later they moved to 68 Tottenham
Court Road, where a similar operation was carried out...


Here is a sample operation carried out against The Moka Bar at 29 Frith
Street London W1 beginning on August 3, 1972 ...Reverse Thursday ...Reason
for operation was outrageous and unprovoked discourtesy and poisoned cheese
cake...

Now to close in on The Moka Bar. Record. Take pictures. Stand around
outside. Let them see me. They are seething around in there. The horrible old
proprietor, his frizzy haired wife and slack jawed son, the snarling
counter man. I have them and they know it.

"You boys have a rep for making trouble. Well come on out and make some.
Pull a camera breaking act and I'll call a Bobby. I gotta right to do what I
like in the public street."

If it came to that I would explain to the policeman that I was taking
street recordings and making a documentary of Soho. This was after all
London's First Expresso Bar was it not? I was doing them a favor. They
couldnt say what both of us knew without being ridiculous...

"He's not making any documentary. He's trying to blow up the coffee