why don't we all just face facts: coming up with a
good title is hard work. One IDMer who I feel is
successful in this dept. is Kid606. I think I've
probably heard about six of his tunes in my life, but
I gotta say, his titles are good. Naming your track
"-5-4325790834=25ieor;oi" is an easy way out of the
difficult job of finding a good (albeit traditional)
track title. If you consider "a02=375hyr5" a legit
title, then it's legit, end of story. But flying in
the face of tradition a la Gertrude Stein's "Tender
Buttons" is an easy way to replace the concept of
innovation with laziness. The honorable thing to do
is to forget about titles completely, instead of
adding some nonsense to music which most definitely
isn't nonsense (some AE excluded).
Ben
--- Martin Lomas <mlomas@rogers.com> wrote:
quoted 23 lines Why are so many IDM song titles apparently
> Why are so many IDM song titles apparently
> meaningless, or made up of apparently meaningless
> words, or words with strange letter substitutions,
> numbers and punctuation?
>
> (A) It's as good a way as any to reflect on life.
> (B) To avoid song titles like "I don't fucking know
> #17" and "Look what my synth did now #25".
> (C) It's leet type behaviour.
> (D) It's the language of techno, dude.
> (E) Electronic musicians got no soul.
> (F) Electronic musicians got no life.
> (G) It's what Autechre does.
> (H) Lighten up, fuckwit.
> (I) All of the above.
> (J) Other - please specify.
>
> Please check all that apply.
>
> If you think this is silly and disrespectful, or
> interesting and humble, you're right.
> Martin
> http://www.musicwomb.org/
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