SOURCE: Lydenberg, Robin. “Sound Identity Fading Out: William Burroughs's Tape Experiments.” In Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde, edited by Douglas Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, pp. 409-37. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.
In the following essay, Lydenberg analyzes Burroughs's literary voice as it is expressed on his experimental tape recordings.