William Burroughs and Brion Gysin had developed a writing form called 
"cut up" which involved writing a page or pages, then cutting it up and 
rearranging the pieces and rewriting it to make linear, but not overall, 
sense. As Burroughs said, "When you break open the sentence, the future 
leaks out." Applying this idea to audio tape means cutting it with a 
razor and taping it together in a new order, laborious but very effective.  
Amazing sounds and statements can be made by "cut up." It is another 
way of using spacial collage concepts to work with language and sound, 
normally thought of as time-based. 20