The New Museum, which bid farewell to Brion Gysin’s Dream Machine exhibition on Sunday, also unveiled a Gysinian iPhone app this weekend, so that the next time you’re on a lot of drugs and want to see an amazing light show, don’t forget: there’s an app for that. The Brion Gysin: Dream Machine iPhone app, to be specific, which is free at the app store and really just like the real thing. (Rhizome)
Learn more about Brion Gysin and the Dreamachine…
http://www.dreamachine.ca
http://www.briongysin.ca
http://www.briongysin.com
http://www.flickerflicker.com
http://flicker.myfilmblog.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/DreamachineFli…
http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/artists/gy…
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/artic…
sorry – but first, this is a drug-free trip. Gysin & Burroughs were happy to promote it as such. While this app is a small-scale thumbnail approximation it is definitely NOT much like the “real” thing. If you make the actual physical dreamachine scaled per the original instructions and look at it through CLOSED eyes, you will almost immediately see the flickering “yantra” or mandala pattern of interlocking up & down triangles completed by your own optic-nerve per the same phenomenon of persistence-of-vision that allows us to comprehend and cinematic motion from as few as 16-flickers-per-second. The dreamachine flickers between 9-13 depending on where you adjust your closed-eyes gaze and thru which you will see alternating from positive to negative illumination the aforementioned mandala or yantra. From there, once your optic nerve synchs with the desired alpha-wave pattern, you will begin to experience a drug-free LSD-styled trip of exploding colors that you can project whatever mental images from your memory or projection and approximate lucid dreaming – thus the name. I strongly encourage everyone to get the plans & make your own per Gysin/Sommerville’s original design. They’re online & freely available to all.