Photos from my concert at The Tate Modern in London. We had 6000 people at my show.
Paul D. Miller aka D.J Spooky
Paul D. Miller aka DJ SPOOKY is a composer, multimedia artist and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum and Rapgun amongst other publications. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany and the Kunsthalle, Vienna. His work New York Is Now has been exhibited in the Africa Pavilion of the 52 Venice Biennial 2007, and the Miami/Art Basel fair of 2007. Miller's first collection of essays, entitled Rhythm Science came out on MIT Press 2004. His book Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on electronic music and digital media was recently released by MIT Press. Miller's latest collaborative release, Drums of Death, features Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Chuck D of Public Enemy among others. He also produced material on Yoko Ono's recent album Yes, I'm a Witch.
DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation was commissioned in 2004 by the Lincoln Center Festival; Spoleto Festival USA; Weiner Festwochen; and the Festival d'Automne a Paris. It was the artist's first large-scale multimedia performance piece, and has been performed in venues around the world.
DJ Spooky's multimedia performance piece Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica was commissioned by BAM for the 2009 Next Wave Festival; The Hopkins Center/Dartmouth College; UCSB Arts & Lectures; Melbourne International Arts Festival; and the Festival dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. With video projections and a score composed by DJ Spooky, performed by a piano quartet, Terra Nova: Sinfornia Antarctica is a portrait of a rapidly transforming continent.
DJ Spooky's CD The Secret Song was released October 6, 2009 on Thirsty Ear Records. With guest appearances by Thurston Moore, The Coup, Mike G. of the Jungle Brothers, Rob Swift of the X-Ecutioners, Mike Ladd, Vijay Iyer, and many others, The Secret Song is a manifesto about our overloaded digital culture.
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29/06/2010
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13/01/2010
it's with pleasure that I announce the launch of a radio project of mine that was commissioned by German National Radio. The project is an extension of my compositions that were created in Antarctica during the last Austral summer, and they will be broadcast nationally in Germany for several weeks as an "art-radio" project focusing on sound and "acoustic portraits" of different geographies. The idea is to create a kind of imaginary landscape for the 21st century, or I guess, even better, an "Imaginary Antarctica." The project is based on the fact that no one "owns" Antarctica.
The radio composition is called "Terra Nullius" after the term used for early colonial descriptions of "empty places."
The piece can be heard on FM nationwide in Germany and over the internet on www.dradio.de in the night from January 24th to 25th, 0.05 CET. It will be re-broadcast on SWR later this year. It will be simultaneously broadcast online (so much for 20th century radio!).
This is a different project from my Terra Nova symphony - it's meant strictly as a kind of "radio theater" in the tradition of Orson Welles, John Cage and other composers/artists who made work specifically for the radio. The "Terra Nullius" project is supported by Deutschlandradio Kultur.
I hope you can tune in online!
Details
www.dradio.de
The Golden Arm Ensemble plays my compositions for the project, and the mix will be freely downloadable after the broadcast.
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12/12/2009
I just made a mix using my new Iphone app:
here's the mix - you can download it from here: or you can transfer it to a site that works better for your purposes, and link to that. Maybe soundcloud?
http://djspooky.com/ftp/infinite_abstraction/infinite_abstraction_2009_12_10_mix_tape.mp3
JG Ballard once said "history is a stage that needs to be swept clean." I agree. When I first heard Grand Master Flash's "Adventures on the Wheels of Steel" from 1981, I was blown away. Afrika Bambaata's "Death Mix" was cool, but Flash took things in a whole different direction.
That's what I wanted to do with this cell phone mix.
Using the new Iphone App I developed with Music Soft Arts, a NY based software producer, I decided to go through some mixes I've been working on and to create a free download of music from around the world that mirrored what Grandmaster Flash did in 1981 with his "Adventures..." Through the prism of my new album "The Secret Song" and the app on my cell phone, I just wanted to show how you can rock a party using material from your Itunes library and mix it with your record collection. The mix is pretty wild - there are remixes from artists as diverse as Dj Rekha, The Beastie Boys, The Budos Band, Sub Swara, The Coup, Major Lazer, Santogold, mashups from Daft Punk, Michael Jackson (Yeah!), and even Malcolm X hidden there. Not to mention many other mainstays of downtown NY's electronic music scene, like Anti-Pop Consortium. Basically, it's a mix stratight from the heart of some of New York's finest collage artists! Check it and enjoy - remember - it's from a cell phone, and records mixed!!!
Talk about clearing the stage, eh!? With mobile media, there is NO stage, it's basically about creativity, on the spot, anywhere, anytime... Check the frequencies!!!
in peace,
Paul aka DJ Spooky
Infinite Abstraction:
1. Robot Working. Then Stopping
2. Radical Change - Malcolm X
3. Multiphonic - Dj Spooky featuring Rob Swift
4. 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO DJ Spooky featuring The Coup (Medeski, Martin & Wood remix)
5. Volcano (Four Tet Remix) Anti-Pop Consortium
6. Bassnectar's Superstylin Smashup - Bassnectar vs Groove Armada
7. Decehall Party - DJ Xela
8. Fakir Alternate Remix - DJ Rekha (Dj Spooky remix)
9. Insh'allah - Sub Swara
10. Hold The Line (Mr Lex and Santogold) - Major Lazer
11. Hi Fidelity (Shambhala Riddim) - Sub Swara
12. Earth Break - Mr. Magic
13. Triple Trouble - The Beastie Boys
14. Big Money Comin' - Crookers
15. Aerodynamic - Daft Punk (Dj Spooky remix)
16 Michael Jackson 2 Many DJs vs DJ Spooky
17. 25 or 6 to 4 (Instrumental Track) [Karaoke In the Style of Chicago]
18. Say It Loud/Mind Power - James Brown
19. Respect - Aretha Franklin
20. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
21. Jamrock Collage - Damien Marley vs Dj Spooky
22. Anonymous Skulls - Medeski, Martin & Wood
23. Everything In Its Right Place (Dub Tribute to Radiohead) - Vitamin Dub
20. Two Face - Ticklah & Victor Axelrod
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03/12/2009
Hey you all - this is wild!! The main national TV channel for Russia came to my event and taped an interview - it's in Russian, but it's been repeating on Russian National TV for the last couple of days.
They put it on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFk-qoPeA00
It's about the festival I headlined a couple of days ago at The Hermitage. We had a sold out event, and many Russian curators and artists were at my exhibition. The show focused on several aspects of Russian avant garde graphic design and film remixes of Malevich, Rodchenko and Vertov. It was based on the DVD that goes with my new album - a remix of Dziga Vertov's classic "Kino-Glaz"
Russia is WILD!!
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01/12/2009
I'm in St. Petersburg for an exhibition of my work and a concert at The Hermitage.
