Latest DJ Spooky Quotes from Interviews

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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, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

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  Reality, World, Chance

• Whenever you play a song, you're basically playing with a lot of zeros and ones. These are Western compositional models that other cultures have explored in so many ways.

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  Song, Other Cultures, Play

• 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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  Running, Stars, Powerful

• To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.

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  Imagination, Renewable Resources, Resources

• 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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  Creating, Environmental, Chemicals

• The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it.

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  Play, Records, World

  "The Book of Ice" by Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When you apply the same logic to the environment, there's a lot of room for mapping sampling techniques to the environment itself.

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  Technique, Sound, Culture

• 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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  Art, Thinking, Creating

  "Explorers. What is your passion?". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

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  Information, Life Is, Contemporary

  "Explorers. What Is Your Passion?" by DJ Spooky, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• 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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  Beautiful, Passionate, World

  "Explorers. What is your passion?". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• Music, art, and literature are inseparable for me. How does "composition" evolve in a music and art context? It's a question we can never answer: it only asks for more information and generates more questions.

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  Art, Doe, Answers

  "Explorers. What is your passion?". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want to see everything and navigate. You know the art world is similar. Like I wish people would use their ears a lot more.

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  Art, Eye, People

  Source: bigthink.com

• Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that... use that to navigate.

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  Wall, Eye, Voice

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

• 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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  Art, Thinking, Play

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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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  Heart, People, Black

  Source: bigthink.com

• Whales, for example, also navigate with sound, but they're now beginning to be beached because the ocean is getting too noisy. Weird things like that. I mean this is very real. Like, if you look at the satellites in the sky at night you know it's an eerie sense of we're.

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  Real, Ocean, Mean

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

• 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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  Glasses, Bird, Sound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

• 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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  Trying, Sound, World

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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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  Talking, People, Treasure

  Source: bigthink.com

• Antarctica is one of the most remote and beautiful places on earth. I don't think that everyone should go there. I also think that we need to respect it as a kind of a national park for the planet. It should be you know put in parentheses.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Needs

  "Creating Melodic Landscapes in Antarctica". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

• 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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  Heart, Mean, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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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  House, Hip Hop, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

• 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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  People, Goes On, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

• Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

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  Talking, Ice, Symphony

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

• On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.

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  Hands, Symphony, People

  Source: bigthink.com