exactly right!
greg
quoted 49 lines From: gideon@catalystmedia.com
>From: gideon@catalystmedia.com
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: Re: [idm] on the Ae thing
>Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:51:57 -0700
>
>
>
>aaron wrote:
>
> > why is it that most new IDM artists need to reference tons of numbers
>and
> > nonsensical words into song names?
> > what ever happened to naming a song after or related to it's
>inspiration? or
> > target feeling?
>
>I believe that the majority of IDM is 'discovered' not written. I used
>to play guitar in bands... back then I wrote music, now I create music -
>the recorded piece is the results of my exploration.
>
>Many electronic artists use the medium as the inspiration - whereas a
>cheesy lite rock song will be inspired by some lost love... :)
>
>So... the names are secondary and if their aren't vocal samples in the
>piece (which often dictate titles), then the artist simply pulls the
>title out of the air or their surroundings... shich is a lot of
>acronyms, computer terminology, letters, numbers, etc.
>
>Another reason, is that many of them crank out a lot of tracks and they
>don't always connect with a piece on a title level - the begin a piece
>not knowing what it will be about, name it any ole name while they are
>building it - then when it is done, they are already thinking about new
>tracks - so that last one is put asside... and onto another musical
>abstraction!
>
>
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