From: "skism"
Subject: Re: [idm] IDM has become...
quoted 6 lines i generally name tracks by looking around me and taking something
>
> 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...quoted 5 lines autechre once said on IRC that they used a computer program to
> 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)...
'It' came from Brion Gysin, the master magician of Joujouka.
Quick-cut history of the cut-ups:
http://cadre.sjsu.edu/switch/sound/articles/wendt/folder4/ng45.htm
"The painter Brion Gysin (1916-1986), rediscovered Tristan Tzara's cut-up
method while cutting through a newspaper upon which he was trimming some
mats. He did several experiments with cut-ups while living in Tangiers. He
shared his discovery with his friend William S. Burroughs, who put the
technique to good use and altered the landscape of American literature"
http://bernard.pitzer.edu/~bkeeley/REALITY/TOPY_BG.HTM
"In the summer of 1959 Brion Gysin painter and writer cut
newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at
random. "Minutes to Go" resulted from this initial cut-up experiment.
"Minutes to Go" contains unedited unchanged cut-ups emerging as
quite coherent and meaningful prose."
HTH
.o0O}seeklektek{O0o.
np: Stakker - Eurotechno (accompanied by Dream Machine ;))
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