DJ Spooky Performs 'Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica' at Hogg Memorial Auditorium 11/20

Texas Performing Arts presents renowned musician, author and philosopher DJ Spooky for a performance of his multi-media piece entitled "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica " Friday, November 20 at 8:00 p.m. at Hogg Memorial Auditorium.

While prolific and highly regarded as a writer and conceptual artist, Paul D. Miller is probably most well known under the moniker of his constructed persona, "DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid." Miller has remixed and recorded with an array of artists ranging from Metallica to Steve Reich to Killah Priest and has performed in a uniquely wide variety of situations throughout the world. His CD releases include a recent compilation of classic reggae tracks called In Fine Style, DJ Spooky presents 50,000 Volts of Trojan Records!!! as well as Drums of Death with Dave Lombardo of Slayer and Chuck D. of Public Enemy; the groundbreaking Optometry (Thirsty Ear Records); and Miller's award-winning book Rhythm Science (MIT Press).

His large scale multimedia work, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, is an acoustic portrait of a rapidly changing continent transforming Miller's first-person encounter with the harsh, dynamic landscape of Antarctica into visual and sonic portraits. Miller's field recordings captured the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, and reflect a changing--even vanishing--environment under duress. Coupled with historic, scientific and geographical visual material, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica is a 70-minute performance, which creates a unique and powerful moment around man's relationship with nature.

In addition to video projections and DJ Spooky on turntables, the performance also features local chamber musicians. Terra Nova was commissioned by BAM / 2009 Next Wave Festival, Change Performing Arts, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Hopkins Center / Dartmouth College, UCSB Arts & Lectures, Spoleto 51 / Festival dei 2 Mondi and follows his highly acclaimed multimedia/film/performance piece, DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation, which he recently toured worldwide.

Campus & Community Engagement Event:

A Conversation on Antarctica with DJ Spooky and UT Assistant Professor Ginny Catania
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
Austin Public Library (North Village Branch)
2505 Steck Avenue

GINNY CATANIA joined the Jackson School of Geosciences faculty at University of Texas at Austin in 2005, after completing her Post-Doctoral Research at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She won the Jackson School of Geosciences Excellence in Research Award in 2007 and the University of Minnesota's Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998. Catania has done fieldwork in Greenland and Antarctica. She is currently researching the importance of meltwater to the peripheral thinning of Greenland's ice sheet for NASA.

Friday, November 20, 2009, 8:00 pm - Texas Performing Arts presents DJ Spooky, "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica" at Hogg Memorial Auditorium (2300 Whitis Ave). A map of the campus:
http://www.TexasPerformingArts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($29 / Limited $10 student tickets / discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and Military) are on sale now at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at http://www.TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

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