You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.
DJ SpookyIt'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.
DJ SpookySleep is crucial and I tend to find when the sun is shining I find it much more difficult to get that sense of sleep.
DJ SpookyI 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 SpookyMy work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!
DJ SpookyIf 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