DJ Spooky
Sound Artist
DJ Spooky (Paul D. Miller) is a composer, author, producer, and electronic and experimental hip-hop musician. His stage name, "That Subliminal Kid," is borrowed from the character The Subliminal Kid in the William S. Burroughs novel "Nova Express." His homepage is www.djspooky.com, and he can also be found on Facebook at facebook.com/djspooky.
Given the exploding coal mines in West Virginia, apocalyptic oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, and the volcanic ash cloud from the Eyjafjallajökull glacier that stranded millions of people […]
I’m just getting on a flight from Medellín, Colombia. No, I wasn’t hanging out with drug lords, war lords, or Nazis who fled Germany after World War II. I was […]
The way copyright law is written doesn’t reflect the “rip, mix, burn kind of scenario” that is the modern age.
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“Music is writing. Writing is art. Art is music. Simple,” says the DJ.
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Standardized technology “deadens a lot of amazing stuff,” but it also allows people to customize their sensory landscape in new ways.
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“My work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit,” says the DJ.
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Miller remixed D.W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation” as a critique on racial politics. His Antarctica project touches on many of the same ideas, differently.
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“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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DJing is like being a conductor, and a composer of collage—you get to “mess around with people’s memories of songs.”
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Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of guy, while DJ Spooky can be wilder.
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