PLAN B analog blog

--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "Bryan E Cornell"
<bcor@...> wrote:
>
> Was the title "Secret Life of Semiconductors" meant to echo Peter
Tompkins' book "The Secret Life of Plants?"

Nah...I just liked the sound of it.  

I have a hard time naming things.  I usually don't title pieces with
names that conjure images - like 'Trip to Venus' or something as I
don't want the listener to have any preconceptions of what the piece
may be about and, don't want any boundries in it's creation so that
that imagery is supported, therefor representational.  Case in point -
"Electrolux" - it doesn't mean anything (outside of a vacuum cleaner).

Further (not that my opinions mean anything of course), I have grown
tired of the phenom. of outer space references to electronic music.
Too gimmicky.  Electronic timbres aren't as out of this world as they
were in 1968. So, the Trip to Venus thing would probably never happen,
even if I was into metaphorical references.

The CD will be entitled 'Secret Life', an abbreviation for the piece
This one I couldn't resist as I appreciated the mystery it suggests. 

- P