Abstract

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Think Globally, Deejay Locally

Throughout the book, Sound Unbound, I kept running into environmental ideas. I noticed some first in Rhythm Science. For instance, on page 61, he stated that “Identity is about creating an environment where you can make the world act as your own reflection.” He also brings the sustainability saying “Think Globally, Act Locally” into deejaying. I interpreted the saying to extend beyond deejaying.

Dj Spooky is incorporating many of the ideas concerning sustainability on purpose. Specifically, in his paper within Sound Unbound entitled “In Through the Out Door: Sampling and the Creative Act”, he talks about how humans try to separate themselves from nature (7). Even with the act of recording sounds, we are trying to further separate ourselves from animals and other natural beings? We try to separate ourselves from animals by taking part in activities like living in houses and defying the sun and by creating other such truly odd objects. I will argue in this paper that DJ Spooky’s work implies the basis of sustainability to deejaying and to the world.

For instance, when he says “to look for anything to stay the same really is to be caught in a time warp of another era, another place when things stood still and didn’t change so much” (18), does he mean that things change and nothing can be done about it, much like what occurs in nature? His Terra Nova video on his website indicates that he is indeed interested in these ideas and that he may have included those references to sustainability on purpose. Also, everything in nature is connected to everything else just like how with deejaying and sampling, it is all related.




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Humans Aren't Animals

Throughout the book, Sound Unbound, I kept running into environmental ideas (probably because I was looking for them). I noticed some first in Rhythm Science. For instance, on page 61, he stated that “Identity is about creating an environment where you can make the world act as your own reflection.” I interpreted this to extend beyond djing. Was Dj Spooky doing that on purpose or did it just come out like that? Specifically, in his paper within Sound Unbound entitled “In Through the Out Door: Sampling and the Creative Act”, he talks about how humans try to separate themselves from nature (7). Even with the act of recording sounds, are we trying to further separate ourselves from animals and other natural beings? It seems to me that we are and that DJ Spooky is saying the very same thing. Much of what we do seems to be to try to separate ourselves from them including living in houses and defying the sun and by creating other such truly odd objects.

When he says “to look for anything to stay the same really is to be caught in a time warp of another era, another place when things stood still and didn’t change so much” (18), does he mean that things change and nothing can be done about it?

His Terra Nova video on his website indicates that he is interested in these ideas and that he may have included those references on purpose. Would an analysis of the Terra Nova video with references to texts he wrote concerning sounds work somehow for a final paper? I think that I’d like to do my final paper concerning this topic, but I’m not sure if it’s really there, or if I’m thinking wishfully. Comments? Suggestions?