Sospeso performs with guest artist DJ Spooky on March 1, 2006, in Tribeca.
We also performed a new work he wrote at the Boulez tribute concert on May 10, 2005, at Zankel Hall. 

Paul D. Miller is a conceptual artist, writer, and musician working in NYC. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, Raygun, Rap Pages, Paper Magazine, and a host of other periodicals. He is a co-Publisher along with the legendary African American downtown poet Steve Cannon of the magazine A Gathering of the Tribes—a periodical dedicated to new works by writers from a multi-cultural context, and he was the first Editor-At-Large of the cutting edge digital media magazine Artbyte: The Magazine of Digital Culture. Currently, Miller is in the middle of starting another magazine with many of the more progressive aspects of the Artbyte project. The new magazine is 21C, and can be found at www.21cmagazine.com.

Miller’s work as an artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (year 2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and many other museums and galleries. His 2004 solo show at the Paula Cooper Gallery in NYC Path Is Prologue echoed in part his live music/theater/film performance DJ Spooky’s Rebirth of A Nation, which ran simultaneously at the Lincoln Center Festival after premieres in Vienna and at Spoleto USA in Charleston, SC. Another recent art project, Errata Erratum is an internet based remix of Marcel Duchamp's "errata musical" and "scultpure musical" works from the period 1912-1915 at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art.

But even with all this, Miller is most well known under the moniker of his "constructed persona" as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, a character from his upcoming novel Flow My Blood the Dj Said, who uses a wide variety of digitally created music as a form of post-modern sculpture. Miller has recorded a huge volume of music as "DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid" and has collaborated a wide variety of musicians and composers such as Iannis Xenakis, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Butch Morris, Kool Keith a.k.a. Doctor Octagon, Pierre Boulez, Killa Priest from Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Reich, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth amongst many others. He also composed and recorded the music score for the Cannes and Sundance Award winning film Slam, starring critically acclaimed poet Saul Williams.

In addition to his numerous records and articles released under the DJ Spooky name, Miller’s first collection of essays Rhythm Science was published by MIT Press in April 2004, and will be followed by Sound Unbound, an anthology of writings on sound art and multi-media. Other recent projects include the Unfinished Stories, a three way collaborative effort between Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times Critic At Large Margo Jefferson, and Francesca Harper. Another recent project was a collaboration with Bernard Tschumi, Dean of Columbia University's architecture department, and author of Praxis: Event Cities. This piece debuted at the Venice Bienniale of Architecture 2000.

Miller’s most recent albums include Optometry, a jazz project featuring Matthew Shipp, William Parker, Joe Mcphee, Carl Hancock Rux, Daniel Bernard Roumain, and High Priest from Anti-Pop Consortium, and Dubtometry, a dub remix of the same, featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry and Mad Professor Both were released in 2002-2003 by Thirsty Ear Recordings, followed in 2004 by the megamix CD Celestial Mechanix, also on Thirsty Ear.

More information can be found at www.djspooky.com. Photo: Tobin Poppenberg.