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I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.

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DJ Spooky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 6
Composer
Disc Jockey
Musician
Record Producer
Washington
District of Columbia
Paul D. Miller
That Subliminal Kid
Deals
Real
Drag
Dumb
Folks
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Usually bands would make a song to record for an album, but what happens with the deejays you say Well the album is everything we need. Thanks band. You can go away now.
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You're only as good as your record collection.
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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 a living, breathing human being. And one of the things that Sigmund Freud really felt was that in modern life people assign qualities to objects around them that may not exist there whatsoever.
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I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.
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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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It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.
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There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.
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I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs.
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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 bat head towards a building and swerve away, but you'll see a bird that doesn't... you know smash right into a glass window. It's very funny.
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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 of elusive and intangible things. That could be psychological. It could be perceptual. It could be just the way your ears help you just navigate around.
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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 data bases we call the web.
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To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.
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The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.
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When you think about a composer you know like Wagner or Pier Boulez or something like that most of the issues a composer is working with are about discreet, notated music that someone else will play.
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What I wanted to try and figure out was, okay, in contemporary 21st century life the alienation between the self and the land around you or the self and even the urban landscape. You name it.
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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 is kind of invoke that and then dive into that kind of repetition as a DJ thing because DJing you hear beats, like boom, boom, boom, bap, bap. You know hip hop, house, techno. So how do you translate between those electronic motifs and the motifs of the landscape itself? That is what I wanted to go for.
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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 talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.
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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 palette.
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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 process. Let's go to the most remote place that you can imagine, set up a studio and see what music comes out of it.
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