IDM Mailing Archive

At 10:50 PM 1/1/2002 -0800, you wrote:

quoted 8 lines would most idm works be considered a song or a track? just

>would most idm works be considered a song or a track? just >wondering... for some reason i equate tracks to techno/house type stuff >and songs to brit pop and new wave, etc... what the hell are >these? maybe their word jumbles in the case of some autechre >tracks... who's the guy who has that series of records with everything >named after a girl's name? if a booty bass dj battled it out with an idm >dj would it be DDM vs IDM? what's the name of Mark Bell's new album? and >does anyone listent to Vromb? Happy New Year, belated.

well, songs deal with lyrics and singing, etymologically speaking. it mainly deals with "singing musically," and isn't solely human or technology based, as we also have bird songs. tracks are technically bits of music put together, like a "4 track recording," but can also be representative of any recorded aural medium, such as a "laugh track," and so on. Usually tracks support someone singing, as anyone who happened to watch the ball drop last night and was forced to see the horrible stage acts 'perform' heard (while everyone on stage was prancing about). However, a track could also be a song, if you think of it in technical terms, whereas a song could be interpreted as a track with singing. so you'll usually hear techno and other non-lyrical music forms referred to as tracks, although it's usually pretty ambiguous among most people, and music with lyrics and singing referred to as songs. orchestrated music is often referred to as "pieces," although I haven't looked into that. derek ------- eggytoast.com ------- snappy one-liner