Dreamachine Plans (1986)

Denver, Colorado, US: OV Press (book, chapbook, 1st), 1986 [1990].
8.375" x 5.375", 20 pages, stapled wraps, "T.O.P.Y. Document B-4".

Dreamachine Plans by Brion Gysin, as published in a 1st printing chapbook by OV Press (Denver, Colorado, US.) dated 1986, but likely produced closer to 1990 [see below]. This includes full plans for how to design a functional Dreamachine.

This includes "What Is a Dreamachine?", an essay by Brion Gysin, as well as "Dreamachine", also by Gysin. Ian Sommerville's "Flicker" is also included.

According to Tom Banger (Denver TOPY) in discussion in the Facebook "Burroughs & Associates" group: " In 1990, I created a typeset version in booklet format under the imprint of OV Press. We printed 500 or 1000 of these to sell during the 1990 PTV Detour and mail order. There were a lot left over after the Denver station folded - they were given to PTV at their 2015 Denver disconcert. Some were sold at the show, and I believe a lot of them wound up with the message from the temple film crew and were given as incentives for GoFundMe backers."

In addition, Tom noted: "I think I consulted with Genesis about this and we decided that the copyright year should be the year the templates were produced, not the publication date [emphasis mine]. This was published towards the end of the trajectory of the Denver TOPY Station, and that's provable simply because of the fact that it's printed. We did not have the resources to be able to print until maybe 88. This was the first and likely only publication that followed the naming convention of letter - number. I was playing around with the Church of Scientology's use of serial numbers as it were to identify their various publications. The B series documents were intended for the general public but were not 'canonical' TOPY documents - these artifacts would be closely aligned to, but not directly mirror, our message."

"Examples of A series publications were going to be Thee Grey Book, the Green book, and possibly Television Magick and the series of Feedback compilations. The B series would have included the various Austin Spare reprints, Plus Stations in Time and the Excess Spare scrapbook, as well as the Jodorowsky, Spare, Brian Jones and Beausoleil scrapbooks."

"Then there would have been another series, can't remember what letter, that would have been internal documents for temple "members" only. Things were getting quite professional and organized just as that iteration of the Temple began to dissolve."

This copy was acquired as a gift from Janet Galore.

A later (unidentified) printing of this first edition is also in the archive. This was acquired in the early '90s from the Beat Book Store (Boulder, Colorado, US.). This is missing the details on T.O.P.Y. and OV Press on its covers.

The Dreamachine Plans were revised and expanded in 1992. A copy of the fifth printing (1994) of the revised and expanded edition is also in the collection, acquired from Beat Scene publisher Kevin Ring (Binley Woods, England).