As Miller recalls his past and the slow rise to DJ success over the years he talks about his mix tapes that he puts out with his logo on it.  He goes on to note how these tape end up coming back to him is some way through the underground culture where media and ideas and passes around freely.  Its really amazing how something small like a tape can get passed around then copied and played without ever having contact with the DJ can start a buzz that would launch a career.  It’s hard to believe that some of the fundamentals that a modern DJ uses can be traced back to the 1870’s when the phonograph was invented.  The advance of transferring music to record essentially gave power to the non-musician to listen and analyze music that would normally only be heard in a live setting.  While Im sure that when the phonograph came out people did not suddenly become DJ’s and start scratching and mixing it did give the tools necessary for musical creativity to ensue.
“Rhythm science is not so much a new language as a new way of pronouncing the ancient syntaxes that we inherit from history..”  I like this point quite a bit because sound and music have been around for a long time.  Over the generations it has evolved due to technology and also social ideas.  Music from the 50’s that was considered racy at the time is fairly tame in the modern culture.  Most new music out right now is just a reconfiguration on an old song which it from an older song.  Its not to say that new material doesn’t exist any more.  Rhythm science is the evolution of remaking something that already exists and putting it into a new context or story.  Rhythm science also seems to encompass more non musical sounds similar to the happenings movement and experimental works like those of John Cage.