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 SpookyAll the major social movements of the 20th century had great soundtracks - We need that. The left needs better propaganda, because we donโt have the Koch brothers. It takes a different kind of capital to fight that stuff.
DJ SpookySampling is a new way of doing something thatโs been with us for a long time [โฆ] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.
DJ SpookyThe 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".
DJ SpookyThe easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.
DJ SpookyOn 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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