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		achairapart on Oct 12, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airport... Bowie even came up with a software in the 90s called the Verbasizer to further automate his cut-ups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3IKLMgFaDA There is also a web app version at https://verbasizer.com/

chalst on Oct 12, 2022 [–]

Interesting. An associate of Burroughs, Ian Sommerville, wrote a program in the 1960s to permute lists of words to help Burroughs for similar reasons.

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