Re: [microsound] project names vs real names...

[Anthony Saunders <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, this is how I'm leaning right now. I'm looking, i guess, for a 
kid606 or afx-esque moniker that I feel comfortable using for 
everything from my ambient/drone/noise to my jungle/idm/breakcore 
tracks to whatever other material I make. I have a couple ideas that 
I'm letting gestate in my head to see what I feel comfortable with over 
time. When it comes to modern computer music, the grey area between 
academic / "serious" music and pop / techno / punk can feel very large 
and easy to fall into.

Then again, I'm also looking for a good way to bridge the gap between 
my largely improvisational beat-less music and my largely hyper-edit 
precise breakcore material. I've decided to tackle this for now by 
forcing myself to focus on learning how to play as live as possible at 
all times, beats or no beats, melodic or not. Going to be interesting 
to see what happens to my music under this restriction: in the end, I 
think I will be a better musician for it, and that my music will be 
more expressive.

Anthony

On Oct 3, 2004, at 3:04 PM, chthonic streams wrote:
> on the other hand, if your project reaches across other genres, some 
> people do like to hear a name that sticks in their heads.  this is, i 
> guess, the marketing side of it, because what you're doing in this 
> case is branding.  you're building up a name to permanently associate 
> with the music that you do.  it's really the same thing as with your 
> own name, it's just that a project name may be more instantly 
> recognizable, depending on what you're going after and what your name 
> is.  for example, if your given name is bjork or madonna, there's not 
> much reason to come up with a project name.


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