I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.
DJ SpookyI think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind.
DJ SpookyPhonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is what I was going for in my book "Sound Unbound" was to try and get people to figure out how do we unpack some of the meanings that go into these kinds of sonically coded landscapes.
DJ SpookyWhen 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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