19 (song) 19 (song) "19" is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled third studio album "Paul Hardcastle" (1985). The song has a strong anti-war message, focusing on America's involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who served. The track was notable for early use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words 'nineteen' and 'destruction'. It also includes various non-speech, re-dubbed sampling, such as crowd noise and a military bugle call. "19" features sampled narration (voiced by Peter Thomas), out-of-context
The Automatic Message The Automatic Message The Automatic Message (1933) ("Le Message Automatique") was one of André Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism. The essay was first published in the magazine "Minotaure", No. 3-4, (Paris) 1933. In 1997 it became the title of a compilation of surrealist writing of André Breton, Paul Éluard and Philippe Soupault, amongst others. The book includes two vital “automatic” texts of surrealism. Breton’s prefatory essay "The Automatic Message" relates the technique to the underlying concepts and aesthetic of surrealism. "The Magnetic Fields (Les Champs Magnétiques)" (1919) by Breton and Soupault, was the first work of literary surrealism and