In fact, if you look at the root word of phonograph it just means phonetics of graphology, phono-graph, writing with sound, so graphology. You know graffiti, same root word.

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource.

Try this experiment, closing your eyes and navigating with your ears. It's eerie because walls, you can actually hear your footstep maybe bounce off of or you can feel the vibration of your voice and help that... use that to navigate.

I'm passionate about the fact that this world that we live on is a stunningly beautiful place we have despoiled at every level.

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.

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.