Soul Power: From Gospel to the Godfather
Trailer for The Watts Stax Story
DJ Spooky connects soul music’s “then” and “now,” cutting soul-inspired vinyl with footage from Wattstax, Mel Stuart’s acclaimed documentary. Wattstax chronicles the monumental 1972 concert—featuring Isaac Hayes, the Staples Singers, and Richard Pryor—Stax Records staged in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
TERRA NOVA: The Antarctica Suite
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller’s next large scale multimedia performance work will be an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent. The Antarctic Suite transforms Miller’s first person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape into multimedia portraits with music composed from the different geographies that make up the land mass.
This video, made with agit-pop.com with music by DJ Spooky, helped
launch our campaign against the so-called Clash of Civilizations--starting
with a call for real Middle East peace talks now. Sign up at www.avaaz.org!
Paul
D. Miller at the 2007 Venice Bienniale with "New York is
Now"
Paul D. Miller participates in this year's Venice Bienniale with
a large scale video installation entitled "New York is Now"
that originally appeared at the Luanda Triennial in Angola in
2006. The new version of "New York is Now" is in the
Africa Pavilion as part of the Dokolo Collection at the Arsenale
Artiglierie. The Pavilion is curated by Simon Njambi and Fernando
Alvim.
A couple of years ago, a Saudi oil minister made what has become
one of the more prophetic statements to come out of the Middle
East in a long time: “The Stone Age didn’t end for
lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world
runs out of oil.” It was a lament, an acknowledgement that
a day of reckoning was coming that would change the global balance
of wealth and power.
Listen to DJ Spooky's re-charged, re-wired remix of Dawn
Penn's classic "No, No, No (You Don't Love Me).
HEEL
UP, WHEEL UP, COME BACK, REWIND: TROJAN RECORDS
by Paul D. Miller
Trojan Records asked me to do a "selections" mix of their
archive, and these are the liner notes to the project. I spent almost
every summer when I was a kid in Jamaica, and all I can say is that
when I was putting together this compilation, it was kind of like
a time warp back to a different era. Check it!
30 min mix by DJ Spooky featuring The Monks
of Deprung Loesling Monastery, Daniel Bernhard Roumain, King Tubby, Philip
Glass, The Beastie Boys, Saul Williams, John Coltrane and Alice Coltrane.
Waterline: The Sounds of Katrina
On the eve of Mardi Gras, Weekend America sent DJ Spooky
to New Orleans to share his experiences in the city through words
and music.
America has had a long history of urban disaster: from the British's attempted
destruction of Washington D.C. in 1814, to later events like the Great
Fire of Chicago in 1871, to the earthquake and subsequent fires that burned
most of San Francisco in 1906. What made New Orlean's encounter with Katrina
in August, 2005 different from all of the previous disasters was the scope,
speed, and sheer sense of uncanny precision that destroyed man made levees
that were specifically designed to stop just such an occurence. The flood
waters that Katrina released follow a trajectory that mirrored many of
the problems of America at the beginning of the 21st century, and showed
that issues such as race, class, and how people respond to environmental
devastation are still scripted by many of the issues that drove the 20th
century's core conflicts. W.E.B. Dubois once proclaimed that "the
problem of the 20th century will be the colorline." In effect he
described a situation where race divided people along lines, that in many
senses were artificial. At the beginning of the 21st century - as we face
a rapidly changing global environment, Katrina pointed out - many of the
issues that he described are still with us. The material I have gathered
is for a show based on interviews that were conducted with people from
many different walks of life. The show is called "Waterline"
- a pun of W.E.B. Dubois infamous phrase that "the problem of the
20th Century will be the colorline" - the water that came and destroyed
New Orleans didn't care about skin color, and it was about the rapidly
changing environment of North America.
Exploring
a Media Ecology
Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Independent
artist, writer, producer, and musician.
CREATION REBEL MIX CD on Trojan Records
DJ Spooky's "Sound Unbound" on MIT Press. Out March 2008
DJ Spooky presents
DJ Spooky has produced material on the new Yoko Ono album.
DJ Spooky and the 2007 Venice Biennial
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