Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working
in New York. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice,
The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a
host of other periodicals. Miller’s first collection of
essays, Rhythm Science, was published by MIT Press in
April 2004, and was included in several year-end lists of the
best books of 2004, including the Guardian (UK) and Publishers
Weekly. In 2005, Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings
on sound art and multi-media by contemporary cultural theorists
will follow Rhythm Science.
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 (year 2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany;
Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many
other museums and galleries. His 2004 solo show at the Paula Cooper
Gallery in New York, Path Is Prologue, echoed his live
music/theater/film performance, “DJ Spooky’s Rebirth
of A Nation, which ran simultaneously at the Lincoln Center
Festival after premieres in Vienna and at Spoleto USA in Charleston,
SC and continues to tour globally.
But even with all this, Miller is most well known under the moniker
of his "constructed persona" as “DJ Spooky That
Subliminal Kid". Miller has recorded a huge volume of music
and has collaborated a wide variety of musicians and composers
such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith
a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Pierre Boulez, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang
Clan, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth
among many others. He also composed and recorded the music score
for the Cannes and Sundance Award winning film Slam,
starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams.
Miller’s recent albums include Optometry (2002),
a jazz project featuring Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Mcphee,
Carl Hancock Rux, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and High Priest from
Anti-Pop Consortium; Dubtometry (2003), a dub remix of
the same, featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry and Mad Professor;
and Riddim Clash (2004), a collaboration with Twilight
Dub Sound System. In June 2004, Thirsty Ear Recordings released
his two-CD megamix called Celestial Mechanix, featuring
eleven recent DJ Spooky remixes.
In addition to his numerous records and articles released under
the DJ Spooky name, other recent projects include the Unfinished
Stories - a three way collaborative effort between Pulitzer
Prize winning NY Times Critic At Large, Margo Jefferson, and Francesca
Harper. Another important project was a collaboration with Bernard
Tschumi, Dean of Columbia University's architecture department,
and author of Praxis: Event Cities. This piece debuted
at the Venice Bienniale of Architecture 2000. In the magazine
world, Miller is co-publisher along with legendary African American
downtown poet Steve Cannon of the magazine, A Gathering of
Tribes – a periodical dedicated to new works by writers
from a multicultural context and he was the first Editor-at-large
of the cutting edge digital media magazine, Artbyte: The Magazine
of Digital Culture.
As DJ Spooky, Miller continues his globe-trotting appearances.
In 2004 he played at festivals from France to Mexico City, performed
a DJ concerto in Oakland and at Yale, gave numerous talks at prominent
universities, and participated in the Microsoft’s International
DJ Summit. Miller’s latest collaborative release Drums
of Death features Dave Lombardo of Slayer, Chuck
D. of Public Enemy, Vernon Reid of Living Color,
and Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto. Drums of
Death was released in April 2005 on Thirsty Ear Records.
In June of 2006, DJ Spooky and Trojan Records released In
Fine Style: 50,000 Volts of Trojan Records. In Fine Style
is his way of introducing the vintage reggae sounds he grew up
on to the DJ, club and art worlds he spins in today, and includes
recordings by legends Lee Perry, John Holt, Desmond Dekker, Sly
& Robbie, Peter Tosh and Barrington Levy. DJ Spooky set out
not only to create a new mood for the club scene but to take club
goers through the vital history of Trojan and its direct impact
on DJ and club culture to this day. “This mix is a combination
of the old, the new, and the in between,” he explains. “That's
kind of the point: DJ culture in the 21st century is as much about
the soundsystem as the playlist. I wanted to make a mix that reflected
that: old and new.”
Italian Bio:
Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid (stati uniti)
il nome fa riferimento ad un personnagio di william s. burroughs,
in nova express. dj spooky è lo pseudonimo di paul d. miller,
uno dei musicisti elettronici più eclettici, colti e preparati.
devoto a john cage, sun ra e grandmaster flash, e' un artista
concettuale, scrittore e muscista che lavora a new york. ha suonato
con: arto lindsay, iannis xenakis, ryuichi sakamoto, butch morris,
kool keith aka doctor octagon, pierre boulez, philip glass, steve
reich, yoko ono, thurston moore dei sonic youth. laureato in filosophofia
e lettura francese, impegnato nella lotta al razzismo. collabora
con il whitney museum, la bienniale di venezia/architettura, il
ludwig museum a colona, the andy warhol museum a pittsburgh; scrive
su the village voice, artforum, the source, paper magazine ecc.
"rhythm science" è la sua pri.a raccolta di saggi.
vincino ai la musica elettronica sperimentale. per dj spooky la
musica è soprattutto creare strumenti per pensare, per
dare alla gente sistemi, per organizzare l'informazione al di
fuori delle categorie europee de razionalità. il sui "remix"
è un sistema operativo dove la ripetizione è una
sorta di omaggio al futuro nel rispetto del passato. nuovi codici.
PHOTO BY TAMAR LEVINE
|
