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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.
DJ Spooky
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DJ Spooky
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 6
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Paul D. Miller
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You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.
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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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I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.
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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 the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.
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To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.
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I'm talking like just the beauty, but at the same time to get people to realize that we should treasure it. Maybe visualize it, but leave it alone. A
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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 would be fun to throw that in the mix.
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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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Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that run our information economy, patterns that make up the traffic of our cities, and on over to the way the stars and galaxies formed.
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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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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 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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The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
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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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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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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 goes into each of those.
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I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.
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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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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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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 sound at every level.
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