DJ Spooky Quotes - Page 3

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• 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 feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.

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  Breathing, Space, Silence

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 sense of sleep.

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  Sleep, Shining, Sun

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Symphony, Strings, Pun

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

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• So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.

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  Rocks, People, Rolling

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• 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.

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• So the physicality of that and the just the sheer lack of urban noise and machinery - just the wind, the water and your breath, you know that kind of thing - it was pure poetry and you know I treasure that.

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  Wind, Water, Treasure

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Reset Button, Creative, Buttons

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Thinking, Play, Issues

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 saying you go into your record store and all those categories and all those different ways of segregating music have been thrown out the window, so the difference between myself in real life in that is that I'm the opposite.

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  Real, Thinking, Opposites

  Source: bigthink.com

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• So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

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  Art, Rolling, Albums

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

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• Downtown New York, I'm within certain styles of music and I'm also within certain cultural, you know, and literary context. So DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous. You couldn't fit it into anything and that was the point.

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  New York, Style, Downtown

  "How 'That Subliminal Kid' Got His Name". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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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 a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

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  Nuts, Kind, Spooky

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

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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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  People, Research, Information

  Source: bigthink.com

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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 they're in this kind of cocoon, stuck in suburban rush hour traffic or something.

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  People, Car, Cocoons

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Now if you think about the 20th century and the idea of visual vocabulary the album occupies a really important space in the cultural landscape and, above all.

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  Thinking, Vocabulary, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover.

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  Trying, One Day, Sound

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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 example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.

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  Book, People, Giving

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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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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  Beautiful, Passionate, World

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

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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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  Running, Stars, Powerful

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• In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

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  Writing, Mean, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Self, Land, Names

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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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 cultures have explored in so many ways.

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  Song, Other Cultures, Play

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