i generally name tracks by looking around me and taking something
that's sitting infront of me, or on a page of a book or magazine,
or something to do with the original filename or enter a random bunch
of characters and try and assemble a word type thing out of them...
a;lskdjals -> 'sklodj' for instance sounds sorta cool...
the only bad thing about this system is that i usually only name
the track when i'm exporting the master from cubase, and most of the
time end up changing it the next week, which makes it very hard
to remember which cubase filename relates to which song... oh well
autechre once said on IRC that they used a computer program to
generate track names, then there's allways anagram programs too.
bowie wrote lyrics by assembling cut up words from a hat, which
i think came from Burroughs (anyone read The Soft Machine - fucking
insane)...
if there's no lyrics to a song then what's the point of trying
to assign any kind of meaningful title for it? it seems fairly
pointless to me... if the word-thing seems cool for no particular
reason there's nothing wrong with that... or you mightn't use
a title at all... or i guess one could try and describe the emotional
response to listening to the song, so fucking what...
my favourite title of mine is 'Guido de Montifeltro's Patented Spring
Top Hat' which is a mixture of Flann O'Brien and Dante's Inferno.
skism...
np:The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: esa ruoho [mailto:esaruoho@dlc.fi]
> Sent: 11 January 2003 23:51
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: [idm] IDM has become...
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>
> >>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).
> >I mean, these guys use the same scheme for at least some of >their song
> titles.
> >brothomstates - qtio, vleade, mrdrmx, te noch rp, kivesq, [ >etc ]
>
> qtio = kuutio = finnish for 'cube'
>
> mdrmx (not mrdrmx) = remix of MD appelsap (consult www.m3rck.net
> merck003 release MD appelsap for the original release of))
>
> natin = either "natina" (creaking/etc) or "nothing".
>
> brothomstates ixpen = remix of a track called 'ip xen'. by someone.
>
> kivesq = either "kivesku" or "kives-q" (kives=testicle)
>
> claro isnt "gibberish"
> neither is viimo (close enough to "viima"), or, even "viimonen" ->
> "viimoinen" -> "viimeinen".
>
>
> what really irks me is that some reviewers honestly claim that some of
> the tracknames are just random numbers.. exactly how is 25101999 a
> random number? ever heard of 25/10/1999?
> yep, r-e-a-l random.
>
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