John Geiger's Soft Skull Press Edition of "Chapel of Extreme Experience" (2003)

 

Brooklyn, New York: Soft Skull Press (book), 2003.
8.25" x 5.5" x 0.375", 120 pages, softcover, ISBN 1-932360-01-8.

Chapel of Extreme Experience: A Short History of Stroboscopic Light and the Dream Machine [sic] by John Geiger, as published by Soft Skull Press (Brooklyn, New York) in 2003.  This is, as noted, a history of the science of flickering light, mostly focused on the invention of the Dreamachine by Ian Sommerville and Brion Gysin. This contains a foreword by Leila Hadley and an introduction by John R. Smythies. Cover photograph is by Charles Gatewood.

This is an edition following the Gutter Press edition of 2002 (which has a different subtitle).

Gysin is mentioned throughout this book, and a photograph of Gysin with the Dreamachine by Harold Chapman is at page 51.

Contents: 

• Foreword by Leila Hadley
• Introduction by John R. Smythies
• Chapel of Extreme Experience
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index