Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You'll get this kind of psychological relationship to the imagery of the music, but that idea is translated to iPhone apps. It's… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it. — DJ Spooky Copy Share
I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
You know you don't really need the band or the singer/songwriter in the same way, so you look at everything as part of your… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digital techniques.… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
I usually am very specific about how I engage information, how I engage people, what context I'm engaging and, above all, the research that… — DJ Spooky Copy Share
