Carleton Concert Hall, 4:00 p.m. [Sponsored by the Dean of Students Office]
The irrepressible D.J. Spooky is on the road: Linz...Bolzano...Strasbourg...Rome....and Carleton College, Northfield, MN.
"Sound Unbound" is a live multi-media presentation on the history of digital art and media by an artist who uses found objects like a DJ--mixing old video material with the new in such a way that history itself becomes the mix material. The lecture/presentation focuses on how DJ culture has evolved out of the same technologies as those used for digital media and art.
Handy Spooky Fact Sheet:
:::: Came up in Washington D.C. during the height of punk. Weaned on his fathers record collection. First DJ chops on his own radio show at college while while studying French literature and philosophy. After college, on to New York City, writing advertising and science fiction. As a denizen of New York's East Village, he plays a major role in the developing electornica scene.
:::: Multi-talented visual artist, musician, theoretician, writer...who has produced albums, singles, collaborative works, a film score, and art installations.
:::: "One of the the first DJ's in NYC to bring together the disparate elements of space rock, hip-hop, ambient, jungle, experimental, and dub. Through underground events and parties (many of which moved frequently and were word of mouth), with names like Molecular, Abstrakt and Tone, he influenced New York's East Village with a sense of renewal. Where other music genres were looking for reasons to build more and more barriers between the elements that constituted their core styles, Spooky sought convergence in his mixes." [Artist Direct]
:::: Has collaborated with Nick Cave, Metallica, Korn, Hooverphonic, Kool Keith, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from SonicYouth. His most recent album, "Under the Influence," includes remixes crediting Moby, Hive, and Sonic Youth.
:::: Professor at the European Graduate School where he teaches Media Sounds, a class that explores the clashes and resonance between multiple styles and cultural approaches to music from classical composition to rap, hip-hop, and avant-garde sound collages. "Sound should be viewed as a social text and music as a universal cultural language.
:::: Frequent guest at international New Media festivals.
:::: Discography
The Spooky Bio
Spooky's House
Spooky at School
Spooky Writing & Interviews
Web Mixes
Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation" Remix
Spooky Riffs on Fusion Anomaly
Tiny Spooky Bio on Art & Culture Network
Sleepbot on Spooky
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