Rhythm Science

by Miller, Paul D.; DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

• ISBN13: 9780262134415
• ISBN10: 0262134411
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-03-01
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

"The conceptual artist Paul Miller, also known as Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, delivers a manifesto for rhythm science - the creation of art from the flow of patterns in sound and culture, "the changing same." Taking the Dj's mix as template, he describes how the artist, navigating the innumerable ways to arrange the mix of cultural ideas and objects that bombard us, uses technology and art to create something new and expressive and endlessly variable. Technology provides the method and model; information on the web, like the elements of a mix, doesn't stay in one place. And technology is the medium, bridging the artist's consciousness and the outside world." "Tracing the genealogy of rhythm science, Miller cites sources and influences as varied as Ralph Waldo Emerson ("all minds quote"), Grandmaster Flash, W.E.B. Dubois, James Joyce, and Eminem. "The story unfolds while the fragments coalesce," he writes."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

A-side : the idiot - a freestyle	p. 4
Also known as	p. 12
The new griots	p. 20
Sonic sculptures	p. 25
Uncanny/Unwoven	p. 32
Districts	p. 36
Dj-ing is writing/Writing is dj-ing	p. 56
Multiplex consciousness	p. 60
Phonography	p. 68
Rhythmic cinema	p. 77
Rhythmic space	p. 89
Errata erratum	p. 92
The furture is here	p. 100
B-side : the prostitute	p. 108
Author's acknowledgements	p. 116
Designers' notes	p. 120
Endtroduction	p. 124
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