DJ Spooky

Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands…

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So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through…

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Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it…

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I think science fiction and sound is a really interesting thing. You might as well think of it as sonic fiction.

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What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

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My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

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You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm…

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Sleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that…

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Geography is crucial for my work. I went to Antarctica and took a studio to several of the main ice fields to…

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It's like the iPod playlist has killed the way we think of the normal album, so let's think of this as just…

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And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need…

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So yeah, how do I think of my environment and what happens with sound art? I love to play with the idea…

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Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other…

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I wanted to do is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because…

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Most people walk around with headphones on. They're barely encountering or dealing with their fellow person, or if they're in a car…

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The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

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I wanted to do with Antarctica was say let's hit the reset button on that and see what happens to your creative…

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It's an essay that Sigmund Freud wrote about E.T.A. Hoffman's short story called "The Sandman" where someone mistakes an inanimate object for…

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We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of…

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So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of…

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I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.

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When you're coming up with different ways of getting old memories to transform - you're scratching, you're doing all this kind of…

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The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say…

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One of the main things that differentiates them [artists of 70s] from artists before is that they made albums based on the…

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Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe,…

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