it's just a fad, people will move on to the next style as soon as somebody
makes on up ...
but really think about where song titles have traditionally come from.
back in the day, songs had lyrics (that's when people "sing" over the
music for those of you who have been listening to autechre) and you'd take
the title from a line in the lyrics.
other times people would write a song based on a place or a person (like
Mozart -- he's got a symphony called "Prague" for instance).
but alot of the music i write --er, construct-- basically comes about as
a series of happy technological accidents rather than a pre-existing
vision so coming up with a title for the piece of music will happen in the
same way. if i do have an emotion associated with the song, I'll come up
with words that evoke that emotion for the title.
sometimes i get names from my gear ... most digital instruments do not
supply an ASCII type keyboard so you're stuck entering names through these
convoluted processes like "type the 3 key four times for the letter 'f'"
or tapping in letters from your controller keyboard. It's very easy to
mess up a title and from there it's very easy to say "hey that glitchy
title looks really kool" because you saw a title with a name like that on
the latest Ae release...
anyway that's a large part of it anyway. i consciously try to NOT come up
with names that sound like autechre titles (or aphex twin titles -- you
know, the funny anagrams and computer symbols) because I don't want to get
yelled at by IDM-L headz (hehehehe)
so most of my song titles come from science, physics, bad jokes and
chicago landmarks. stay away. mine.
splaen, glixbo, prlo6bim.
josh
--
String Theory : Digital Music for Humans
http://www.enteract.com/~yoshi/index.cgi
On Thu, 11 May 2000, aaron wrote:
quoted 32 lines on the same Ae cloning thing..
> on the same Ae cloning thing..
> certainly many people may model after or be severly influenced by Ae's
> music..
> but does that really mean they need to model thier song naming scheme after
> it?
> 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?
>
> all these "ikzart 4" and "melydo" silly letter mixing song names keep
> getting on my nerves..
> i'd rather see people name songs after something i have no clue as to what
> it's in reference to
> i.e. "jennifer" or "a long time away from home" and have them even SEEM to
> mean something..
> i think it adds a bit to the value of it.. the more wack names i see.. the
> less i remember the name..
> also.. the less i seem to associate almost ANY type of humanity to it..
>
> anyone else agree? disagree?
>
> aaron
> systorm technologies
> www.systorm.com
>
>
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