If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but… — 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
