Episode 27: Weird Music, Part One
Weird Studies
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The Insect in Burrows
Burrows is very much like that famous statement he makes, mission statement in Naked Lunch. He often uses the symbol of the insect to represent those forces that govern society and the individual below the threshold of consciousness. And that's very much what Coleman's doing with this kind of like almost like a musical version of the surrealist's automatic writing. There's something very occult about what Coleman is doing. He's not there. He's letting something come out through him. I've always had this sensation as I've listened to his music. The idea that you need to just capture the psychic process, capture what's going on in the mind right now,. In the mind and its interface with the
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