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. DJ Spooky More Quotes by DJ Spooky More Quotes From DJ Spooky 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 DJ Spooky treasure talking people 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. DJ Spooky heart talking mean 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. DJ Spooky beautiful needs thinking 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. DJ Spooky landscape hip-hop house I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs. DJ Spooky song memories ideas If I take that person and play them as a record I'm becoming not only a conductor and composer of collage, but at the same time I'm looking at a whole layer of what goes into copyright law, who owns those memories, who owns the way that that sound gets remixed and transformed and above all how much fun it is to actually just mess with other people's stuff. DJ Spooky law fun memories 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. DJ Spooky downtown style new-york The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea. DJ Spooky resources these-days ideas 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. DJ Spooky eye people art I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag. DJ Spooky drag dumb real 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. DJ Spooky issues fun men For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like the mixtape. Now we would call it "collaborative filtering" or something technical, but the impulse is the same - gather fragments, make something new. That is how you will bypass the climate-change skeptics: render them totally obsolete. DJ Spooky mixtapes records clouds 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. DJ Spooky flying culture thinking 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 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. DJ Spooky acoustics ice symphony I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind. DJ Spooky mirrors mind thinking 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. DJ Spooky ironic style criticism 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. DJ Spooky real opposites thinking 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. DJ Spooky information research people 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. DJ Spooky one-day sound trying
