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• 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.

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  Ironic, Style, Criticism

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• When you say what is the difference between me and my stage name the idea is that as a musician you always think of yourself as inhabiting a certain cultural space in the kind of a cultural landscape, so when I say cultural space what I mean to imply there is that you exist within certain parameters of how people think of culture.

  DJ Spooky

  Mean, Thinking, Names

  Source: bigthink.com

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• First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

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  Fun, College, Names

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Cities, Ideas, Landscape

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Mistake, Breathing, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The name [Spooky] comes from well back in university I was doing a series of essays and writing about Sigmund Freud's idea of the uncanny and I was really intrigued by this idea of "The Unheimlich".

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  Writing, Names, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Simple, Sampling, Eras

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was a kid, I looked at art as a way of blending everything. One of my favorite composers is Wagner - who coined the term "gesamtkunstwerk," or "total art work." That's what was going on in the 19th century, and the 20th century just kept it going.

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  Art, Kids, Way

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

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  Musician, Hobbies, Planning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

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  Real, Dumb, Drag

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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  Fun, Men, Issues

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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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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  Thinking, Flying, Culture

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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• Watching 40 mile chunks of ice break off of Antarctica will change your life forever, but realizing that driving a car, or flying a plane, or having a nice steak, or drinking from a plastic bottle all contributed to the destruction of the environment - it's a bit complex, but music needs to pave the way for getting people to think about this kind of complexity. I'm just doing my share.

  DJ Spooky

  Nice, Drinking, Thinking

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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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 make field recordings of ice to create a symphony - acoustic portraits of ice.

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  Ice, Symphony, Acoustics

  "DJ Spooky’s Icy Philharmonic". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. October 17, 2011.

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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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• I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into being until mainly after the Second World War because record labels realized they'd be able to make a lot more money putting all the singles of an artist onto one album and selling the whole album as a kind of a concept.

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  War, Artist, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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• 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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• One of the main things that differentiates them [artists of 70s] from artists before is that they made albums based on the fact that they didn't care about the band as a thing in its own right. They cared about manipulating the recording and that became the album.

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  Artist, Albums, Band

  Source: bigthink.com

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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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  Song, Going Away, Albums

  "The Art of Spinning". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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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 "That's what the style is."

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  Ideas, Icons, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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