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Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.22,0:00:12.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Stan Douglas: Channeling Miles Davis]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.70,0:00:15.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My first job after high school was as an usher
Dialogue: 0,0:00:15.78,0:00:17.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the theater.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.90,0:00:20.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My second job after high school was as a DJ.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.00,0:00:23.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I worked at a club called Faces\Nfor about two years.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.54,0:00:25.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Back then, DJing was kind of anonymous.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.66,0:00:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're in a booth in the back.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.40,0:00:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People come up and ask you\Nto play Michael Jackson.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.82,0:00:36.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I would go down to a place called Tacoma,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.36,0:00:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,across the border--\Nwhich had a nearby base.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.64,0:00:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So a lot of Black people were\Nat the Army base.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.82,0:00:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they had record stores that would have\Nfunk and hip hop music
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.49,0:00:44.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you couldn't get in Vancouver.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.69,0:00:47.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I would make my pilgrimages down there\Nto get my records.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.02,0:00:52.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was doing tape pause-button remakes\Non my cassette machine.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.26,0:00:55.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I learned how to do Grandmixer DST's bit,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.72,0:00:59.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remixing "The Wildstyle"\Nand "Rockit" by Herbie Hancock.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.50,0:01:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nobody knew the music I was remixing,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.42,0:01:04.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they couldn't tell I was doing a remix.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.38,0:01:07.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mixtapes is a loophole to allow people to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.20,0:01:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,go back to what feels like\Nthe right thing to do,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.03,0:01:13.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is to use existing cultural media
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.14,0:01:15.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as raw material for making new work.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.24,0:01:32.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Luanda-Kinshasa" is a video
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.96,0:01:36.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inspired by what I saw in Miles Davis's work\Nfrom the 1970s.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.02,0:01:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my favorite records of all time is\N"On the Corner" by Miles Davis.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.11,0:01:43.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He'd already integrated funk and rock into\Njazz music,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.46,0:01:45.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but he was trying to bring in\NIndian classical music.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.18,0:01:49.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And somehow thought this would be a real hit\Nwith the kids.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.38,0:01:51.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, of course, it was his worst-selling ever.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.82,0:01:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's a pretty amazing piece of music.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.54,0:02:00.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Around the time he made that record,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:00.96,0:02:03.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a song called "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.78,0:02:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a huge hit in the disco underground \Nin New York City.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:08.04,0:02:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if you brought in Afrobeat
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.04,0:02:11.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as part of that mix he was doing?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.75,0:02:14.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's what we tried to realize in "Luanda-Kinshasa".
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.97,0:02:21.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is a very tenuous connection \Nbetween two things,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.18,0:02:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is really more an aesthetic feeling\Nthan anything else.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.14,0:02:32.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Selfish reason for "Luanda-Kinshasa"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.11,0:02:33.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that I love this record "On the Corner"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.88,0:02:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I wanted to hear more.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.29,0:02:37.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The more general reason for it is that
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.94,0:02:39.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Miles Davis could have made more,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:39.40,0:02:41.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but this was his last studio record\Nin the 1970s.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.26,0:02:47.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In my work, I want to go back to these possibilities of
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.74,0:02:50.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"What if there's another way\Nof considering history?"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.78,0:02:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the whole thing, in a way,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.22,0:03:00.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a constructed idea of a utopia.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.04,0:03:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Utopia means "no place."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.88,0:03:09.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a place that you may strive to get to,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:09.04,0:03:10.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can't necessarily get there.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.10,0:03:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This utopian moment of\Nall these people from different cultures
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.02,0:03:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is realized out of all these diverse influences.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.30,0:03:24.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks spontaneous.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.46,0:03:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks live.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.46,0:03:27.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It looks like people are\Nlooking across the space at each other.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.88,0:03:30.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this only exists in the form of this edit.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.66,0:03:34.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Luanda-Kinshasa" is six hours long,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.51,0:03:36.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if you watch it over time,\Nyou'll realize that,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.64,0:03:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Oh, I've heard that motif before."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:40.06,0:03:41.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I've seen exactly that shot before."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.10,0:03:45.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Often, musical forms appear in my work,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:45.90,0:03:48.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this idea of polyphony\Nappears again and again.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.94,0:03:52.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Polyphony is like when a DJ plays\Ntwo records simultaneously.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.02,0:03:54.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have "Song A" and "Song B".
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.64,0:03:56.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When they play together,\Nthey make a third song.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.24,0:04:00.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone gets inspiration from somewhere.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.18,0:04:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing comes out of a void.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.36,0:04:04.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything comes out of\Nmy experience of the world--
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.03,0:04:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've read,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.03,0:04:06.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I've gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.03,0:04:07.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I've seen,\Nwho I've met.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.12,0:04:10.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're always basing it on something.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:11.58,0:04:13.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm just being honest of where it came from.