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Multimedia & Download: DJ Spooky goes Antarctic on your ass

DJ Spooky, aka Paul D. Miller, continues to push boundaries with music and visuals.  Tomorrow night at Sundance he'll unveil a very early, work-in-progress version of his ambitious Terra Nova: Antarctica Suite project.  This massive work (which according to management will be fully complete in December 2009) will attempt to represent the rapidly changing, distressed environment of Antarctica through acoustic sound, mainly through the sound of ice from Paul's field recordings.  Al Gore will be bumping this in his iPod.

Apparently this sounded nutty (and awesome) enough to get the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dartmouth College, and others to help commission the Washington D.C.-based producer/DJ/experimentalist, and to enlist the generosity and support of Getty Images to lend amazing visuals.  Long known for collaborating with progressive artists like Saul Williams, Sasha, Chuck D. and Kool Keith (among countless others), sounds like DJ Spooky will now collaborate with Mother Earth herself.  We love hearing artists moving a message through music – stay tuned to SEEN to hear more on this as the project develops.

Here's a rough demo of what the project will be about:

http://djspooky.com/media/djspooky_antarctic_promo_small.mov

Details on tomorrow's live performance (not to be missed if you're in Park City):

Tuesday, January 22 at 9pm @ Sundance Film Festival
333 Main Street (lower level)
Open to all Festival credential holders and the general public as space permits.

And to whet your appetite download "Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti Mix)", a classic Spooky track off his 1996 album “Songs of a Dead Dreamer”.

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