My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

I was never planning on being a musician. It's basically a hobby that sprawled out of control.

The idea of a visual icon that gives you a sense of information very quickly and that you can easily just say "That's what the style is."

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.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

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

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.