The Text Mixing Desk

• A Brief Explanation of the Cut-up Technique
• Text Manipulation & Cut-up Technique Links

The Lazarus Corporation’s Text Mixing Desk includes a William Burroughs style Cut-up engine, a Transgenderiser, a Rasta patois translation device, and a Watergate-style “Expletive deleted” module, all selectable as outboard modules to the main mixing desk.

The Text Mixing Desk is currently undergoing some upgrades. In the meantime, you can find the old version of the Text Mixing Desk in the Corporate Archives.

What others have said about the Text Mixing Desk

“This is terrific” — Alan Sondheim, (poet, critic, and theorist who writes on and about the Internet. His books include Disorders of the Real, and the anthology Being on Line.)

“Very cool - got some nice results” — www.headmap.org (informal guerilla (distributed) think tank - site no longer live, sadly)

“Thank you for the information on this exciting project, I had a lot of fun playing!” — www.noonworld.co.uk (Jeff Noon fansite - site no longer live, sadly)

“A more entertaining cut-up generator is to be found at the Lazarus Corporation site. This lets you enter text and then optionally cut it up, change the genders and even rasta-ize it.” — PC Plus magazine, issue 216 - Spring 2004