Born 1970 in Washington, DC. Lives and works in New York, NY.
RECORDS & RELEASES
2018 DJ Spooky Presents: Phantom Dancehall, VP Records
2015 Rebirth of a Nation, Featuring Kronos Quartet, Cantaloupe CA 21110
2010 Terra Nulius, German Radio
2009 The Secret Song, Featuring Thurston Moore, The Jungle Brothers, The Coup,
Rob Swift, The Golden Arm Trio and George W. Bush
2007 Creation Rebel, Sanctuary Records
2006 In Fine Style, DJ Spooky Presents 50,000 Volts of Trojan Records!,
Sanctuary Records
2004 Riddim Clash, Twilight Dub Sound System
2003 Dubtometry, Featuring Lee “scratch” Perry and Mad Professor
2002 Optometry, Featuring Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Jo McPhee, Carl
Hancock Rux, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and High Priest
Modern Mantra, DJ Mix Record
2001 Under the Influence, DJ Mix Record
1999 Subliminal Minded, Bar/None Records
1998 Riddim Warfare, Outpost-Geffen
Haunted Breaks Volumes I and II, Liquid Sky Music
Synthetic Fury EP, Asphodel Records 0110
1996 Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Asphodel Records 0961
Necropolis, Knitting Factory Works KFW 185
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey, in collaboration with the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Services
2011 The Book of Ice, Thames and Hudson/ Mark Batty Publisher
Intro by Brian Greene
2008 Sound Unbound, MIT Press
2004 Rhythm Science, MIT Press
FILM FEATURES & FILM SCORES
2017 Birth of a Movement: The Battle Against America’s First Blockbuster, Northern Light/PBS
2008 Rebirth of a Nation, Anchor Bay Films/ Starz Media
2003 Guattro Noza, Fountainhead Films, Sundance competition Finalist
1998 SLAM, Sundance Film Festival, Cannes, Camera D’Or
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2014 DJ Spooky Presents A Civil War Symphony, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
DJ Spooky at the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act Gala, The Wilderness Institute,
Washington DC
Maldives Pavilion, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
The Rebel Journey, sponsored by Hogan Rebel and Directed by Giorgio Arcellie Fontana
Island Innovation Lab, Vanuatu Pacifica Foundation, Efate Vanuatu
2013 Of Water and Ice Featuring Adriana Mateo and Jiliane Ruso, The Metropolitan Museum, New York NY
DJ Spooky Live, Cue Arts Foundation Gala in Honor of Paul D. Miller, Cue Foundation, New York NY
Ice Music: Paul D. Miller/ DJ Spooky, William and Anna Jane Schlossman Gallery, Fargo ND
DJ Spooky Live Origin Magazine Event, No. 8, New York NY
DJ Spooky Live with Kang Un -il, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul Korea
DJ Spooky Live, La Mama/ Culture Hub, New York NY
2012 Melting Ice, Kathmandu Art Festival, Kathmandu, Nepal
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, Stateside Theatre SXSW Eco 2012, Austin TX
2011 Madame Freedom (Jayu Buin) with Eugene Park, Sean Lee, Okkyung Lee and DJ Spooky,
Korean American Film Festival
DJ Spooky Live, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong China
Architecture Concert, Kernel Festival, Villa Tittoni Traversi Desio, Italy
DJ Spooky Live App Demo, Paris Apple Store, Paris France
Terra Nova Concert, Oi Casa Grande Symphony Hall, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Bach Goldberg Variations Remix Project, Michael Stevens Gallery, Johannesburg South Africa
DJ Spooky Live Featuring Delvyn Case and the Great Woods Chamber Orchestra,Wheaton
College, Wheaton IL
2010 The Nauru Elegies: A Portrait in Sound and Hypsographic Architecture, in Collaboration with
Annie Kwon, Experimenta Melbourne, Australia
Nauru Elegies, Smart Space, Amsterdam
DJ Spooky Live, Ace’s Lounge, Austin TX
DJ Spooky Presents Sinfonia Antartica, Multiplicidade Festival, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
DJ Spooky Live at the Tate Modern Museum 10th Anniversary, Tate Modern Museum, London UK
DJ Spooky Live with Sarah Whitney and Claire Bryant, Lincoln Center, New York NY
DJ Spooky with Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Hall, Birmingham AL
DJ Spooky Live with Sudan BoomBox, Khartoum Sudan
2009 Terra Nova: Sinfonia Artarctica, BAM Next Wave Festival; The Hopkins Center/ Dartmoth Colege,
Melbourne International Arts Festival and UC Santa Barbara
DJ Spooky and DMC of RUN DMC, Soul Festival, Jakarta Indonesia
DJ Spooky Live, The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
DJ Spooky Secret Song Iphone App Launch, Sydney Australia
DJ Spooky Live, Green Apple Earth Day Festival, Washington DC
DJ Spooky Live, Experience Music Project, Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle WA
DJ Spooky Live, Macao International Music Festival
2008 Paul D. Miller, Robischon Gallery for the Democratic Convention, Denver CO
Creation Rebel Record Release Party, Galapagos, Brooklyn NY
DJ Spooky Live, Design Indaba Conference and Assembly Club, Cape Town South Africa
Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne Australia
2007 Madame Freedom (Jayu Buin) Live re-score by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Nabi Art Center,
Seoul Korea
Rebirth of a Nation, World Financial Center for Tribeca Film Festival, New York NY
“Devolution” with Boston Modern Orchestra, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
DJ Spooky Live, Nabi Arts Center, Seoul South Korea
DJ Spooky Live, Power to the Peaceful Festival, San Francisco CA
DJ Spooky Live, KAIKANYAMA UNIT, Tokay
2006 Riddim Come Forward with Don Letts, Cargo Club, London UK
Rhythm Science, The Influencers Festival, Spain
DJ Spooky Live, Central Park Summerstage, New York NY
DJ Spooky Live, Luanda Triennale, Angola
DJ Spooky Live, Tate Moderns Turbine Hall, New York NY
2005 DJ Spooky Live, Memphis Museum of Art, Memphis TE
DJ Spooky Live, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
Voices of the Spirit, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York NY
Rebirth of a Nation, South Bank IMAX with Optronica Festival, Brisbane Aus.
DJ Spooky with Pierre Boulez, Carnegie Hall, New York NY
Rebirth of a Nation, Herodain Theater, Acropolis
DJ Spooky Live, Tribu Festival, Dijon France
2004 Rebirth of a Nation, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL
Rebirth of a Nation, Commissioned by Lincoln Center Festival; Spoleto
Festival USA; Weiner Festwochen; and Festival d’Automne a Paris
DJ Spooky with Bill T Jones and Arnie Zhane Dance Company, Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
DJ Spooky with Thurston Moore, Printed Matter Benefit, New York NY
Statements and Remixes, Moderna Gallery, Ljublana Slovenia
Transmetropolitan, Lincoln Center, New York NY
DJ Spooky Live, True Peoples Celebration Festival, Tokyo
DJ Spooky with New Haven Symphony, New Haven Symphony Hall, New Haven CT
DJ Spooky and Oakland East Bay Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony Hall, Oakland CA
2003 DJ Spooky Live, Tecnogeist Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
DJ Spooky Live at Spitz Club, City of London Festival, London
DJ Spooky, Thurston Moore and Ira Cohen, Bowery Poetry Club, New York NY
DJ Spooky Live, Arts Electronica, Linz Austria
Optometry, Berlin Jazz Festival, Berlin
DJ Spooky and Carl Hancock Rox, Vision Festival 8, Brooklyn NY
DJ Spooky Live at Bonnaroo, Tennessee
DJ Spooky and the Mighty Mighty Mad Professor, Ariwa Sound Studio, London
2002 DJ Spooky Live, Cybersonica Digital Media Festival, London
DJ Spooky Live, P.S.-1 Summer Warm-Up festival, New York NY
2000 DJ Spooky Live, Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle WA
DJ Spooky Live, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
1999 DJ Spooky Live, Reich Remix Event, Paris
GRANTS & AWARDS
2014 National Geographic’s 2014 Class of Emerging Explorers
RESIDENCIES
2020 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
2019 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Google Arts and Culture
2017 Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2015-16 Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Bayreuth, Germany
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2013-14 UNSW Art and Design, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Seoul, Korea
2013 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“The Inner Sleeve - DJ Spooky on Alex Steinweiss, pioneer of the illustrated LP sleeve” in The Wire June 2009
“Plane Space and Practical Geometry” in Christine Sciulli: An Artist of the Floating World 2009
“Painting by Numbers, Kehinde Wiley's New World Portraiture” in DJspooky.com 2008
“Between Art and Artefact” in Art South Africa 2008
“Ghost World: A Story in Sound” in DJspooky.com 2007
“Baudrillard: A Remembrance of Things Unpassed." in DJspooky.com 2007
“In the Realms of The Imagination Harry Smith: American Media Artist” in DJspooky.com 2006
“Heel up, Wheel up, Come Back, Rewind: Trojan Records” in DJspooky.com 2006
“Loops of Perception: Sampling, Memory, and the Semantic Web” in Horizon Zero 2003
“On the Record: Notes for the ‘Errata Erratum’ Duchamp Remix Project at LA MOCA” in DJspooky.com 2002
“Sonar Text” in 21cmagazine 2002
“Warhol’s American Dream: A mix by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid” in DJspooky.com 2002
“Brazil 2002” in Ctheory.net 2002
“Material Memories: Time and The Cinematic Image Notes for the Oberhausen Film Festival 2001” in
DJspooky.com 2001