Freestyle-Rhythm Science
October 26, 2010
Alias,a.k.a.; the names describe a process of loops. Sound vector: think lines of flight in the digital now. Check the…Flow. Machines that describe other machines, texts that absorb other texts, bodies that absorb other bodies. This is a wordgame of the nonconscious. This is what the idiot tells us, and this is what we reply.-From a three-way interview between Ad Astra (an alias), Dj Spooky (another persona) and Paul D. Miller (who created them both). ideas of synchronicity: the ways in which things, actions, and events converge in time.endless recontextualizing as a core compositional strategy. The best Dj’s aregriots. Angles of incidence leave paths of thought unresolved, a high resolution photo-frame capture, still life, nature-morte…Think about how John Cage used to just stare at his piano in his silent pieces. translating one form of code into another. As the french say, “plus ca change…”
I guess that’s traveling by synechdoche. It’s a process of sifting through the narrative rubble of a phenomenon that conceptual artist Adrian Piper liked to call the indexical present.So What if I contradict my self-I am large, I contain multitudes. It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. Filling space in becomes a dance with emptiness. Enter keyword “truth,” and the search engine brings you conflicted meanings. That’s the prostitute’s revenge: so many people, so little time.
We’ve sampled the sampler. Any sound can be you.
