At 01:27 PM 1/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
quoted 10 lines On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Eggy Toast wrote:>On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Eggy Toast wrote:
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> > <full idm geek mode> besides, if the guy had any idea what he was
> > talking about, he'd realize that he simply was talking about the last
> > few RDJ and Autechre releases. Those naming conventions simply aren't
> > true among the majority of idm artists.
>
>No the Scrabble-word naming convention meme has spread.. Arovane,
>Phonem, Brothomstates, and Funckarma are four that spring to mind
>immediately.
But those are more like things, or possible names for things. Phonem is
close to phoneme, brothomstates has "states" in it, and Arovane and
Funckarma are german and dutch, respectively (if I remember correctly).
The names certainly have a bit more to them than just a seemingly random
placement of vowels and consonants. I mean, compare the names for tracks
that Autechre uses to the parody names that people use to represent
"pseudo-autechre" tracks. Usually the parodic names sound a heck of a lot
more like gobbledygook compared to anything you'd find on an actual
record. I think that's usually because there's some sort of thought that
goes into naming rather nameless music, and the people that are skilled at
chopping up music should, it follows, be at least interested in chopping up
their own language.
quoted 3 lines I think its great personally, I name all my workstations after these>I think its great personally, I name all my workstations after these
>near-english song titles. So far I've used leterel, flutter,
>amine, recury, clipper, and blacksoil.
See, that's the thing. They are near english. It's a far cry from
reaching in a bag full of letters and trying to arrange what comes out.
I think many people see the track names as some sort of pretention, not
thinking that maybe, just maybe, the people who are doing the naming think
it's even more pretentious to try to wring emotions from dumb song titles.
quoted 3 lines I saw a flier for a local death-metal band named "EXUMED" .. You'd think>I saw a flier for a local death-metal band named "EXUMED" .. You'd think
>they'd bother to run it through a spellchecker before publicising
>themselves... If you make up the words, this isn't a problem.
At least with most IDM releases I've purchased, any spelling mistakes
usually appear intentional. That may also be, though, due to the lack of
written words in the liner notes.
derek
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