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The ‘Cac in ELLE’s 25

Every year ELLE magazine compiles a list of 25 cultural events for readers to pay attention to. This year’s ELLE 25 shines a spotlight on two notable ‘Cac alumni.

As reported by The Orient Express back in April,  Bowdoin alum Paul Miller ’92, known by the moniker DJ Spooky, has been named the MET’s first Artist in Residence.

Here’s how ELLE frames their hype of DJ Spooky:

“He’s collaborated with Metallica, composed a contemporary score to the controversial 1915 film Birth of a Nation, and explored the planet’s remotest locales…”–this last bit in reference to Miller’s multimedia work surrounding the continent of Antarctica.

“Miller’s field recordings from a portable studio, set up to capture the acoustic qualities of Antarctic ice forms, reflect a changing and even vanishing environment under duress. Coupled with historic, scientific, and geographical visual material, Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica is a seventy minute performance, creating a unique and powerful moment around man’s relationship with nature,”  explains Miller’s website.

In 2011 he released a vast, contemplative book titled The Book of Ice.

Here’s a taste of  Miller’s art:

ELLE also trumpets the release of Every Story Is A Ghost Story, D.T. Max’s biography of the late David Foster Wallace (Amherst ’85). Wallace’s talent is far from forgotten; this November, Little, Brown will release a collection of Wallace’s essays titled Both Flesh And Not, says ELLE.