"Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. Christiana, his girlfriend, works in a peepshow on Reeperbahn. A chronically depressed customer is infatuated by her and tries to get more closely acquainted. The relationship between F.M. and Christiana is cool and distant, except for the moments at breakfast, when they share the muddled visions of their dreams.
One day F.M. suddenly wakes up to the surrounding reality, as he notices how the inconspicuous background music at a hamburger joint may have some connection with the junk food. It dawns on him that muzak is designed to control and brainwash the masses, not unlike lobotomy. On top of its paralysing effects, muzak is also laced with subliminal messages. F.M. decides to go back to the bar and records the muzak for his own purposes. He starts to develop a form of “anti-muzak” in his studio, by playing the original material backwards, or at a wrong speed, or by mixing it with interfering factors like sounds of street riots or squealing frogs."
The movie is in German language with hardcoded English subtitles.
"Decoder" was directed by Klaus Maeck and produced in 1984.
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Side A :
1. Throbbing Gristle - We Hate You (Little Girls)
2. Monte Cazazza - To Mom On Mother's Day
3. The Leather Nun - Slow Death
4. Robert Rental & Thomas Leer - Day Breaks, Night Heals
5. SPK - Mekano
6. Cabaret Voltaire - Sunday Night In Biot
Side B :
1. Elisabeth Welch - Stormy Weather
2. Clock DVA - Silent
3. Dorothy - I Confess
4. Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (Part Two)
5. William S. Burroughs - Nothing Here Now...
"The Industrial Records Story" was released by Illuminated Records in 1984.
From Allmusic.com : "Break Through in Grey Room is a collection of William S. Burroughs' speeches and cut-up recordings performed and recorded between 1960 and 1976. Some are actual pieces, and others are discussions of the pieces, such as "Origin and Theory of the Tape Cut-Ups," which he read at Boulder's Naropa University in 1976. Burroughs' incredibly detached voice only sounds better with age. He seems to exist between two worlds, and he constantly jumps back and forth from the conscious to the subconscious. In fact, one can hardly tell at any time which world it is that he inhabits. The bulk of the disc is consumed by one cut-up piece entitled "K-9 Was in Combat With the Alien Mind-Screens," which Burroughs claims was the result of writing as an art form, attempting to catch up to the advanced world of collage painting. This was one of Burroughs' earlier collaborations with Ian Sommerville. The Brion Gysin piece that Burroughs uses as a sample ("Recalling All Active Agents") is a brilliantly textured two-track recording that was made at the BBC studios in 1960 utilizing the drop-in method that Burroughs speaks about. This method entails a tape recorder recording a different player whilst randomly speeding up, slowing down, reversing, and advancing the second player. What occurs is a blubbery and blurry mess of words that surprisingly creates new sentences and phrases. Here Burroughs claims, "When you cut into the present the future leaks out." Other tracks are simply found sound field recordings. One such piece, "Jojouka," features Ornette Coleman playing in the hills of Morocco, recorded in January of 1973. This is a thoroughly interesting record of all of the types of recordings in which Burroughs took part in during his 87-year life, and serves as the perfect introduction to the tape experiments of the most intriguing of all of the beat writers."
"Break Through in Grey Room" was released by Sub Rosa in 1986.
From Allmusic.com : "An obscure 1981 release that only got anything approaching mainstream notice retroactively -- after Laurie Anderson's surprise breakthrough with 1982's Big Science and its unexpected hit single, "O Superman" -- this is a double-LP set featuring one side each of contributions from Anderson, poet John Giorno, and William S. Burroughs, plus a fourth side that had three lock grooves in it; depending on where the needle was placed, you'd hear more works by one of the three participants. (The 1993 CD simply puts each participant's extras at the end of their section.) Anderson's contributions are rough-sounding early versions of minor pieces that eventually ended up in her masterwork, United States I-IV, plus an early recording of "Born, Never Asked" that's lacking in comparison to the richer-sounding remake on Big Science. Burroughs' pieces are primarily of interest to die-hard Burroughs fans, as they come mostly from the era when he was simply reworking old manuscripts, and as a poet, John Giorno makes a pretty good small-press publisher. For completists only."
Side 1 :
1. Laurie Anderson - Dr. Miller
2. Laurie Anderson - It Was Up In The Mountains
3. Laurie Anderson - Drums
4. Laurie Anderson - Closed Circuits
5. Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked
Side 2 :
1. John Giorno - I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, And You Cheated Me Out Of It
2. John Giorno - Completely Attached To Delusion
Side 3 :
1. William S. Burroughs - Introducing John Stanley Hart; He Entered The Bar With The Best Intentions
2. William S. Burroughs - Twilight's Last Gleamings
3. William S. Burroughs - My Protagonist Kim Carson
4. William S. Burroughs - Salt Chunk Mary; Like Mr. Hart, Kim Has A Dark Side To His Character
5. William S. Burroughs - Progressive Education
6. William S. Burroughs - The Wild Fruits
7. William S. Burroughs - The Unworthy Vessel
Side 4 :
1. Laurie Anderson - For Electronic Dogs / Structuralist Film-Making
2. William S. Burroughs - The Name Is Clem Snide / Mr. Hart Couldn't Hear The Word Death
3. John Giorno - Excerpt From Put Your Ear To Stone & Open Your Heart To The Sky
"You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With" was released by Giorno Poetry System in 1981.
