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

[Kassen <kassen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 bil bo, reacting to me;

> >A bit like you wouldn´t sign love letters, contracts or
> >confessions with a asumed name, it´d feel wrong to sign this with a
asumed
> >one.
>
> An assumed name?  All names are assumed- it is the very nature of
language.
> A pseudonym would be just as valid / self-representative as the name
chosen
> for you by your parents (or more so, as you would choose it yourself)

Let me rephrase that then as I agree on a conceptual level. It would feel
wrong to me to sign love letters or confessions with a name chosen by me.
Contracts and the people that want you to sign them tend not to think such
concerns matter and will demand your birth name.

While I agree with you on a conceptual level, I also think there is a lot to
be said for uniquely identifying names. For example, I imagine that if i
were to start posting from mailto:bil_bo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx this would displease
you and confuse others. I shouldn´t be alowed to buy houses claiming to be
Bill Gates either. More to the point here I´d by quite upset if the new
album marked Aphex Twin turned out to be by a local blues band as I´d buy
new Aphex albums on sight.

Semantics and their theory are great but in my own experience they can´t be
aplied to the real world withput some comon sense without running into
trouble.

Yours,
$NAME.

:¬)



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