I do agree , song titles are a tough and important
matter to me.Even though I probably wont release any
of my tunes, I still have a little book where I write
down names when ever i think cool ones for songs.Its
just as much an art statement as the music I think.
fink
--- ben gill <gillette_foamy@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 54 lines why don't we all just face facts: coming up with a
> 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:
> > 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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