Making Music from Data

Posted, 2015-12-24
The Hindu

I was advised to ‘google’ him before the interview. I confess I was taken in by the magnitude of his work and turned up more confused because Paul D Miller aka DJ Spooky is humongous chalta-phirta industry.

The New Yorker is a composer,

The Hindu 2015-12-24

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