Post #432759 by ikitnrev on Thu, Feb 5, 2009 4:08 PM

I was a relative novice to Throbbing Gristle's music until 1992, but found a couple of thrift store copies around then. I decided to listen to one of the LPs - can't remember which one - with headphones on, while I stared closely with my eyes into one of Brion Gysin's Dream Machines. I had consumed no booze, or taken any drugs before this, and I was home alone.

There were some neat visual flickering effects, but nothing earth shattering - when all of a sudden the power on my stereo suddenly clicked off. All other power in my house stayed on. My stereo had never before, or since then, experienced such an outage. It really kind of freaked me out at the time. I never did try to replicate that experiment, perhaps I should do so now?

Looking for the footage of the Dream Machine to link to here, I found this news show film clip, where reporters talk to the director of a new documentary called FLicKeR, which is about the Dream Machine. Genessis P. Orridge is featured in the trailer clip. What I found interesting is the director tells about how the Dream Machine has caused all these weird electrical effects - my experience was not an isolated one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8amSxqnQbRQ

Not sure I can make it up to the New York show .... I'll keep my fingers crossed. Hopefully you'll experience no power outages.

Vern