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Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. He is the author of Rhythm Science and Sound Unbound, both published by the MIT Press.

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. He is the author of Rhythm Science and Sound Unbound, both published by the MIT Press.

Erik Davis is an American journalist, critic, podcaster, counter-public intellectual whose writings have run the gamut from rock criticism to cultural analysis to creative explorations of esoteric mysticism. He is the author of Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information, The Visionary State: A Journey through California's Spiritual Landscape, and Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica.

Hugo Award-winning science fiction author and futurist Bruce Sterling has been called by Time "perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre." Three of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and he has been a contributing writer for Wired since its conception. In 2005 he is "Visionary-in-Residence" at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Bruce Sterling's blog Beyond the Beyond has been active since 2003.

Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. He is the author of Rhythm Science and Sound Unbound, both published by the MIT Press.

Daphne Koller is Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Frances Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Visiting Professorial Fellow at the National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales.

Douglas Kahn is Professor at the National Institute for Experimental Arts at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press) and Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts and coeditor of Wireless Imagination: Sound, Radio, and the Avant-Garde (MIT Press).

B. Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in MIT's Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. She is Faculty Director of the C3 Game Culture and Mobile Media initiative.

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SOUND UNBOUND

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Contents

Foreword by Cory Doctorow.....................................................................................................................................ix1 An Introduction, or My (Ambiguous) Life with Technology Steve Reich........................................................................................12 In Through the Out Door: Sampling and the Creative Act Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid....................................................53 The Future of Language Saul Williams.......................................................................................................................214 The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism Mosaic Jonathan Lethem..............................................................................................255 "Roots and Wires" Remix: Polyrhythmic Tricks and the Black Electronic Erik Davis...........................................................................536 The Life and Death of Media Bruce Sterling.................................................................................................................737 Un-imagining Utopia Dick Hebdige...........................................................................................................................838 Freaking the Machine: A Discussion about Keith Obadike's Sexmachines Keith + Mendi Obadike.................................................................919 Freeze Frame: Audio, Aesthetics, Sampling, and Contemporary Multimedia Ken Jordan and Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid.....................9710 A Theater of Ideas: An Interview with Steve Reich and Beryl Korot on Three Tales David Allenby............................................................10911 Quantum Improvisation: The Cybernetic Presence Pauline Oliveros...........................................................................................11912 The Ghost Outside the Machine Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud...................................................................................................13113 The Musician as Thief: Digital Culture and Copyright Law Daphne Keller....................................................................................13514 Integrated Systems: Mobile Stealth Unit Beth Coleman and Howard Goldkrand.................................................................................15115 An Interview with Moby Lucy Walker........................................................................................................................15516 Zing! Went the Strings Joseph Lanza.......................................................................................................................16117 Renegade Academia Simon Reynolds..........................................................................................................................17118 The World of Sound: A Division of Raymond Scott Enterprises Jeff E. Winner................................................................................18119 From Hip-Hip to Flip-Flop: Black Noise in the Master-Slave Circuit Ron Eglash.............................................................................20320 South Africa's Rhythms of Resistance Lee Hirsch...........................................................................................................21521 The Virtual Breeding of Sound Manuel DeLanda..............................................................................................................21922 Zoom: Mining Acceleration Liminal Product: Frances Dyson and Douglas Kahn.................................................................................22723 An Interview with Alex Steinweiss Carlo McCormick.........................................................................................................23324 Stop. Hey. What's That Sound? Ken Jordan..................................................................................................................24525 Permuting Connections: Software for Dancers Scott deLahunta...............................................................................................26526 On Improvisation, Temporality, and Embodied Experience Vijay Iyer.........................................................................................27327 Spin the Painting: An Interview with Nadine Robinson Alondra Nelson.......................................................................................29328 Camera Lucida: Three-dimensional Sonochemical Observatory Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand.............................................................29929 Fear of a Muslim Planet: Hip-Hop's Hidden History Naeem Mohaiemen.........................................................................................31330 Three Pieces Chuck D......................................................................................................................................33731 Bells and Their History Brian Eno.........................................................................................................................34332 What One Must Do: Comments and Asides on Musical Philosophy Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)..................................................................35333 An Interview with Pierre Boulez Hans Ulrich Obrist and Philippe Parreno...................................................................................36134 Adh'an: The Sounds of an Islamized Orthodoxy Ibrahim Quraishi.............................................................................................37535 Theater of the Spirits: Joseph Cornell and Silence Catherine Corman.......................................................................................37736 Where Did the Music Go? Jaron Lanier......................................................................................................................385Audio CD Credits..............................................................................................................................................391Index.........................................................................................................................................................395

Chapter One

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid

... free content fuels innovation ...

-Lawrence Lessig, The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

Silence is one of contemporary info culture's rarest commodities. In a world where there are several thousand satellites in the sky constantly beaming down at us information, cell phone relays, GPS signals, and weather patterns, even the idea of light pollution takes on a more than metaphorical value. We see the lights in the sky, but we don't hear the frequencies beaming through every nook and cranny of a world put in parentheses by human-made objects in the sky. It's a different sentence, to say the least, when nature and nurture blur to the extent that they have over the last century, and we've created a new syntax of human culture, as our inability to find another "intelligent species" in the universe attests-we speak only to ourselves, so far-we're alone in the universe. That's the current info-culture scenario. We speak to ourselves because that's what lonely people do sometimes. If the metaphor of architecture and frozen music evokes structure, then I need to update the phrase, give it a spin,...