Our goal is to generate inspiration and themes for musical exploration. Each track investigates a theme related to music and machines, which is reflected in the titles.
HOW TO CONNECT MUSIC WITH THE REST OF THE CONCEPT?Obviously, we want to connect the music created with the machine concept; however, we can’t dictate an individual’s interpretation of that concept or the musical form or genre they wish to explore. Track names are a good way to guide the listeners interpretation of the theme, but they can also be used to guide musicians. We have come up with a number of different track names that we believe will help connect and inspire the machine concept and the music elektron-users make for this project. This ensures that every single piece connects with the theme. It’s also a challenge to develop ourselves as musicians. This is not an absolute order, one could come up with their own track name, but it does act as a guide for the invention of track names.
Track names:Here are the track names we have gathered so far. Let's just pool as many as possible in this thread and let people choose their own titles to work on afterwards. Some of them are better, some worse....
Ant colony or Marching ants - referring to the machine-like, automatic behavior of ants
Atomic clocksAutomatic Architecture or The City Engine - an architectural approach where a computer program generates cityscapes based on a set of rules.
Biomekanik - biomechanics is an interesting field, and one that touches upon the
machine-nature relationship. Mitosis - human cells splitting
Cog - keeps the machine running
Coulage automatic sculpture
Do androids dream of electric sheep? – Novel by Philip K. Dick. About Androids obviously.
Gattaca - From the movie.
Ghost in the machine – Refers to consciousness a la Descartes (actually to Descartes’ problem)
Grey Goo - unfortunate potential hazard of self replicating nano machines
G-T-A-C – Refers to DNA. Minimal techno, anyone?
Information – Isn't it what machines (at least computers) do?
Klaatu Barada Nikto – Refers to robot in the classic sci-fi movie The Day The Earth
Stood StillMagic Sound Sources - referring to Elektron.
Moore's Law - law of transistor growth in microprocessors
Are You Conscious? - Just cool name maybe referring to androids
Product of Tyrell Corporation - Refers to Bladerunner, maker of replicants
The Voight-Kampff Test - Another refer to Bladerunner. Test used to separate replicants from humans
Can they suffer? - Just a cool name referring to machines inner life
Sentient Machines - Another cool name?
Was Deckard a Replicant? - Everlasting question on Bladerunner
Hello World - refers to most basic computer program
Nautilus shell - it has a logarithmic shape, a natural shape with an identifiable mathematical shape
Retired robots - what happens to a machine at the end of its life?
Self-replicators – DNA or a virus. Both utopian and dystopian interpretations possible.
SYS 64738 - referring to C-64 basic programming language (reset command) and also to SidStation.
Tetsuo - Referring to the film ‘Tetsuo Iron Man’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROMTzJsfOIHAL - Computer from Kubricks 2001
Joshua - Not quite sure actually??
MachinePop - just a name
Art of Machines - just a name
Computations - just a name
Input-Output - just a name
?? ??? - russian and meaning "Electronic computing machine (=computer)" (My computer wont do Russian at this point! Btw, very close to IBM!)
Servant of a Machine - just a name
4-bit Rainbows - Referring to Spectrum ZX
The Kardashev Scale - measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement
The Story Machine (just an intriguing name, as well as this:
http://scottmccloud.com/4-inventions/machine/index.html)Tik Tok Nation - Another refer to OZ, but this time more dystopian.
Tin Man – Refers to metallic man in the Wizard of Oz story. Tin Man has lost its heart, pretty emotional stuff. A love song?
Transistor music - Transistor is the iconic referent to computers, but it could mean Acid music as well (TB being a transistor bass for example).
Universal Robota – refers to Karel apeks play
Vertov Russian film maker who believed strongly in the machine ("We discover the souls of the machine, we are in love with the worker at his bench, we are in love with the farmer on his tractor, the engineer on his locomotive. We bring creative joy into every mechanical activity. We make peace between man and the machine. We educate the new man.")
Time coder - referring to a machine's ability to split up and "sectorize" time. Also a term that has a reference to the musical world
Quantizer - also a reference to the musical world in several ways, as well a despcription on how many machines can split up and categorize tasks, time etc-
Nanobots - "human repairing" machines - the saviour of mankind in the form of a "machine", created by man, inspired by nature (??)
In finding your own meaning to the suggested track titles we would encourage people to play detective using Wikipedia, Google or asking Jeeves. It is a great way to get familiar with the theme and gain insight into the subject. Of course, people may choose titles that are most relevant to them; if it’s a particularly popular I would encourage people to reconsider; it is unlikely that track listing will feature 15 tracks named HAL.
