Re: coming up with titles

["joe rut" <joerut@lycos.com>]

Yeah!  Starting with the title can be great fun. I belong to a lodge of 
the Immersion Composition Society, an Oakland based group 
committed to QUANTITY songwriting.  Once a month or so everyone in the 
group writes and records as many songs as they can in one 
day.  We all meet later in the evening and listen to what each other has 
done that day.  We often start by throwing song titles around via 
email for a few days prior, so sometimes 7 people will show up with 
different songs with the same titles.

For instrumental music, I find that an interesting title can actually 
change the context of the music significantly.  I actually got into Frank 
Zappa from reading some of the titles on an album.  I think he was a 
marketing genius as well as a musical genius.  The humor in his 
titles gave a different meaning to the instrumental songs than if they had 
been titled "Instrumental 4 for Electric Band" or something.  He 
was actually selling/marketing his personality as much as he was selling 
the actual music on the disc.  Hey, as long as it gets someone to 
listen to the music, right?

David Byrne said (paraphrased):  "Words are there to make people listen to 
music for longer than they would otherwise".  I think the same 
can be said for creating a context for a piece of music with a title.

Joe Rut



----- Original Message -----
From: obadia <obadia@clumsybeats.org>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: coming up with titles
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:37:25 +0200 (CEST)

> 
> exactly. you inverse the process and start feeling inspired by the titles
> themselves!
> it happens to me too
> 
> stéphane
> 
> 
> 
> > I do that, too...sometimes the unused titles become song germs 
>themselves!
> > ~Tim M
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: obadia <obadia@clumsybeats.org>
> >> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> >> Date: 6/1/2005 3:16:20 AM
> >> Subject: Re: coming up with titles
> >>
> >> hi John,
> >> each times i think about a good title, i write it down. could be while
> >> reading, talking, falling asleep, watching a movie, etc. i've been 
>doing
> >> this for years now and i'm starting to have quite an impressive
> >> collection
> >> - hundreds of titles :) fun. when i finish a record i browse them. 
>they
> >> are not always fitting but often there do. i think preoccupations one
> >> have
> >> are somehow connected from a media to another.
> >>
> >> stéphane
> >>
> >>
> >> > How do you do it?  I think I put way to much
> >> > importance on this.  Sometimes something just hits you
> >> > and that's it but most of the time I listen to a piece
> >> > over and over and draw a blank.  And now looking at my
> >> > titles I am not sure I am happy with any of them.
> >> > Also updated my music recently so if anyone wants to
> >> > check it out (and suggest titles even!) then feel
> >> > free:
> >> >
> > 
>http://www.soundclick.com/bands/writePage.cfm?myType=_music&bandid=314378&ba
> > ndnamesave=johncorbett
> >> >
> >> > John
> >> >
> >> >
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