Birth: 1970
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with digit….
To me, the imagination is the ultimate renewable resource..
DJ culture is all about collage - sampling, splicing, dicing - everything is part of the mix, and there are no boundaries between sound sources. When….
We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the ….
I like the idea of it as a trickster motif. You know like you're kind of just messing around with people's memories of songs..
You're only as good as your record collection..
The world is a very, very, very big record. We just have to learn how to play it..
I think that the audience intuitively understands the idea of sampling and remixing stories. That's why electronic music is global..
Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form fro….
Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time..
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..
I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag..
For me, DJ culture - with its obsession with collecting records and archiving everything - predated the "cloud" concept with primitive material like ….
Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a huma….
Sound... if you look at bats you know that navigate with sonar, they're like you know they're very precise. They can even see a bat head towards a bu….
If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either..
I think that electronic music mirrors the complexity of "information landscapes." You carry the terrain in your mind..
Freud is usually viewed as the person who linked psychoanalysis to some issues in the environment, usually man-made. So I thought it would be fun to ….
Phonetics, you know speech, all this kind of stuff, phonograph, simple, but when you unpack the meaning it actually kind of expands out and that is w….
The most scarce resource we have these days is the idea..
So sound art I'm always intrigued with how little we use of other senses and we just prioritize the eye and you just want to see everything and navig….