Drawn At Random:
A Studio Sound Project
by Paul D. Miller for the
Denver Art Museum and Musées de Rouen
For The Denver Art Museum and Musées de Rouen, Paul
D. Miller aka Dj Spooky has especially created a mix CD compiled
of many of his interpretations of Marcel Duchamp's infamous 1913
composition "Erratum Musical". Miller has worked with
artists as diverse as Mariko Mori, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono, Kronos
Quartet, Phillip Glass, Metallica, Public Enemy, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
and others. The Duchamp mix CD he has composed is a kind of snap
shot of the various compositional strategies Duchamp expressed
when he started the game of Errata Musical: for Duchamp, "Errata..."
was originally intended as a game of song to pull people into
an improvisational approach to creativity. The update Miller's
work as an artist focuses on the intricate relationship between
art and artifact - his ouevre points to an uneasy relationship
between how art objects are produced (he uses software for everything),
to how they are deployed in the contemporary cultural landscape.
For him, like Duchamp, music epitomizes the approach of a network
based on what he likes to call "the gift economy" -
its a place where art isn't about commodities, its about cultural
growth, the exchange of information, and how people place value
on the hard to define qualities of what art critic Lucy Lippard
once called "the dematerialized art object." For Miller,
music isn't music - its information: it traverses a world where
sampling has inherited as much from Marcel Duchamps critique of
"found objects (records are found objects!), to an entire
generation of global youth culture that finds digital media to
be a natural extension of the everyday production of culture.
His project, "Drawn At Random" on Marcel Duchamp would
focus on this aspect of digital culture: the mix CD's of his music
and collaborations will be "given away" during the Biennial's
open hours, and will also be available online from his website
as a limited edition. It's an acoustic self portrait of an artist
who uses sound as the main ingredients for his creative pallette.
Download
the Score (pdf)
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Drawn At Random - a Project based on Marcel
Duchamp's Erratum Musical
1. Sketch 1 (Errata Erratum 2007)
2. Erratum Musical (Score drawn at Random)
3. Ambient Pad Dj Tool
4. Ahn Trio "My Funny Valentine" (remix)
5. Piano Interstitial (the 88 notes of the piano played in a random
order)
6. Ambient Sketch 2 mixed with Duchamp "The Creative Act"
April 1957
7. Erratum Musical (Score for 3 Voices)
8. Bonus Beat 1 (Tout-Fait 1)
9. Ahn Trio "Song of The Land" (remix)
10. Piano interstitial (the 88 notes of the piano played in a
random order)
11. Ahn Trio "Heart asks Pleasure First" (remix)
12. Bonus Beat 2 (Tout-Fait 2)
13. Ahn Trio "Dies Iraie" mixed with Duchamp "A
L'infinitif" 1967
14. Piano Interstitial (the 88 notes of the piano played in a
random order)
15. Sketch 1 ambient version (Errata Erratum 2007)
16. Bonus Beat 3 (from Thurston Moore project) (Tout Fait 3)
17. Sketch 2 (with beat) (Errata Erratum 2007)
18. Marcel Duchamp - La Mariee mis a nu par ses Celebritaires
mem accompanied by Dj Spooky on piano
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DJ Spooky has participated in two new book projects.
DJ Spooky also has participated in renowned photographer Lyle Owerko's new book "The Boombox Project" on the history of boomboxes. 
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OUT NOW! DJ Spooky's "Sound Unbound"
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DJ Spooky has produced material on the new Yoko Ono album.
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