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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![“Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the…” quote by DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0bf/dj-spooky-8230_association_sampling-is-a-new-way-of-doing-something_2811141.jpg)
