Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky) has a book called Rhythm Science that’s all about the ways we take cultural cues and elements and mix them together to make new art (be it visual or musical.) Extremely interesting. It was also recently chosen as one of the 50 best designed books by the AIGA for this year.
Cool. Linguistically, this is called creolization. The formation of new styles is a lot like the formation of new languages, and reading about linguistics lately has really been adding to the way I’m able to think about style.
said James
at 6:29pm on Monday