*200 copies limited edition* The Dreamachine, conceived in 1959 by Brion Gysin in collaboration with mathematician Ian Sommerville, was never simply an object; it was a proposal for another way of being awake. A rotating cylinder punched with patterns and lit from within, it was designed to be viewed with closed eyes, its flicker at alpha-wave frequencies provoking kaleidoscopic visions behind the eyelids, dissolving the usual boundaries of perception and revealing inner landscapes that conventional art could only gesture toward. Gysin described it as the first work of art meant to be seen with the eyes shut - an inversion of the museum gaze and a quiet attack on the assumption that art must always be about looking at surfaces rather than entering states.

Around the aura of the Dreamachine, Gysin’s creative alliance with William S. Burroughs intensified. Both were preoccupied with systems of control - linguistic, political, psychic - and with how those systems might be hacked, short-circuited or made to malfunction. Gysin’s discovery and refinement of the cut-up technique, slicing and rearranging text and tape to expose the “control signals” embedded in language, became one of Burroughs’ most radical instruments, just as Burroughs’ prose and tape-experiments fed back into Gysin’s explorations of trance, ritual and the mechanics of thought. Out of this feedback loop emerged the notion of The Third Mind: a composite intelligence produced when two (or more) creators fuse their processes so completely that something other, stranger and more powerful than any individual voice appears.

The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine invites contemporary musicians to step into that zone and treat sound as a continuation of Gysin and Burroughs’ experiment. Rather than offering nostalgic homages or literal “soundtracks” to the device, the compilation asks each contributor to work at the edge of their own habits: to use hypnotic repetition as a tool for derailing linear time; to build immersive soundscapes that function like audio flicker-fields; to think of tape, modular synthesis, software and field recording as equivalents to cut-up, permutation and tape-loop incantation. Some pieces may smear pulses until they become pure texture, evoking the rotational blur of the Dreamachine itself; others might splice voices, radio static and environmental noise into fractured streams of consciousness that echo Burroughs’ micro-taped cities and deserts.

What emerges is not a single, unified style but a shared wager: that listening can be as disruptive and reality-flexing as any visual hallucination. Sequenced as a continuous journey, the album invites the listener to treat headphones or speakers as a kind of acoustic Dreamachine - an engine for internal cinema rather than background ambience. Sudden edits mimic textual cut-ups; overlapping rhythms create moiré patterns in time; drones and overtones encourage that floating, hypnagogic attention state where new connections arise unbidden. In this sense, the compilation is less a tribute album than a lab session conducted across decades, with each track attempting to tune into the same “third signal” Gysin and Burroughs were chasing. This release is an independent homage inspired by the work of Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs and Ian Sommerville. It is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by their estates, and it approaches their legacy not as sacred text but as open methodology - a set of tools to be stolen, reconfigured and pushed into the present. Curated and mastered by Raffaele Pezzella, with layout by Matteo Mariano, The Third Mind. A Sonic Tribute to the Dreamachine stands as a collective attempt to listen through the ears of The Third Mind itself, extending a half-century-old proposition into the contemporary sonic underground and asking, once again: what new consciousness might emerge when we agree to think, and to hear, together.

Participating artists include:  Mark Hjorthoy, Dead Voices on Air O, RhaD, Paolo L. Bandera, Rapoon, Richard Bégin, Mario Lino Stancati, Joel Gilardini, 400 Lonely Things, Nikos Sotirelis, Tescon Pol, Browning Mummery.