I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're… — 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
DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of… — 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
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
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
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
So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from… — 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
The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it. — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 see a… — 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 the cultural… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
