DJ Spooky
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Paul Dennis Miller (born September 6, 1970), known professionally as DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is an American
Career
Spooky began writing science fiction and formed a collective called Soundlab with several other artists.
In the mid-1990s, Spooky began recording a series of singles and EPs. His debut LP was
He returned in 2002 with Modern Mantra. That same year saw the release of Optometry, a collaboration with avant-jazz players Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Guillermo E. Brown and Joe McPhee. In a classical vein, he collaborated with the ST-X Ensemble in performances of the music of Iannis Xenakis.
DJ Spooky collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto on projects including The Discord Symphony. The concert and album were released as an enhanced CD containing both a full audio program and multimedia computer files. It features spoken-word performances by Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, Patti Smith, David Sylvian, DJ Spooky, David Torn, and Bernardo Bertolucci.
He collaborated with Iannis Xenakis on the recording of Kraanerg, with the STX-Ensemble in 1997.
2005 saw the release of Drums of Death, DJ Spooky's CD based on sessions he recorded with
DJ Spooky joined the ninth[3][4] and eleventh[5] annual Independent Music Awards judging panel to assist independent musicians' careers. He was also a judge for the third Independent Music Awards.[6]
DJ Spooky has said that much of his work "deals with the notion of the encoded gesture or the encrypted psychology of how music affects the whole framework of what the essence of 'humaness' [sic] is... To me at this point in the 21st century, the notion of the encoded sound is far more of a dynamic thing, especially when you have these kinds of infodispersion systems running, so I'm fascinated with the unconscious at this point."[7]
Other work
His work as an artist has appeared in a variety of contexts such as the
In 2006, the song "Battle of Erishkigal", co-written by DJ Spooky and Frank Fitzpatrick, was featured in the anime-inspired film The Rebel Angel. In August 2009, DJ Spooky visited the
DJ Spooky's multimedia performance piece Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, a remix of D. W. Griffith's 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, was commissioned in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Festival,[11] Spoleto Festival USA, Wiener Festwochen, and the Festival d'Automne a Paris.
In 2010, Miller formed The Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, a contemporary arts organization dedicated to exploring dialog between Oceania and the rest of the world.
In 2011, Miller collaborated with Ballet Austin Artistic Director Stephen Mills on a ballet work titled Echo Boom as part of The Mozart Project.[12]
In 2016, DJ Spooky composed a New Forms duet for carillon and a computational re-synthesis of the Tsar Bell, a Russian bell which broke before it was ever rung.[13]
In 2017, DJ Spooky started composing the music for Intercepted, a podcast produced by news publication The Intercept.[14]
Family
Miller was born in Washington, D.C. to Paul E. Miller, who headed a panel of 12 African American law professors who assisted defense lawyers in the California trial of Angela Davis,[15] and Rosemary Reed Miller, historian and former owner, Toast and Strawberries, a Washington, D.C. boutique. DJ Spooky has a daughter born in 2011 to Fumika Yamamoto.
Discography
See also
References
- ^ DJ Spooky / Paul D. Miller Archived June 9, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Faculty page at European Graduate School (Accessed: June 4, 2010)
- ^ "CD REVIEWS: Tori Amos, Live, Macy Gray and many more"[usurped]. Chart Attack, September 18, 2001 By: Debbie Bento and Vincent Ziffle
- ^ "MicControl". Archived from the original on June 26, 2009.
- ^ "Top40-Charts.com". Top40-Charts.com. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "11th Annual IMA Judges. Independent Music Awards. Retrieved on September 4, 2013.
- ^ "Independent Music Awards – Past Judges". Independentmusicawards.com. Archived from the original on July 13, 2011. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "ªªHyperdub¬¬¬¬¬Softwar". July 3, 2004. Archived from the original on January 21, 2007. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ISBN 978-1-4421-0074-9. Archived from the originalon June 30, 2019. Retrieved April 6, 2009.
- ^ "The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture". Djspooky.com. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica". Djspooky.com. May 11, 2010. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ "Rebirth of a Nation". Djspooky.com. July 8, 2005. Archived from the original on January 24, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
- ^ Eric Sandler. "Ballet Austin teams up with DJ Spooky on collaborative creation Th... - CultureMap Austin". CultureMap Austin.
- hdl:2027.42/146525. Retrieved June 28, 2022 – via DeepBlue.
- ^ Michael Lawrence. "DJ Spooky Explains How Sound Shapes Our Understanding of Politics". Vice. Retrieved on August 3, 2018
- ^ Special To The New York, Times (July 16, 1974). "Prof. Paul E. Miller Dead; Ex‐Dean of Howard Law, 38". The New York Times. Retrieved August 18, 2017.
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