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Your inspiration for your name
« on: February 18, 2016, 04:11:36 am »
What was your inspiration for your name? Curious to know how everyone got their alias or whatever you want to call it =D
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2016, 05:37:08 am »
I hate names, and i hate words.

my brother actually helped me come up with my name on a road trip to a show one evening years back in high school.

Eventually i think it kind of grew to capture the perspective of myself and the music i wish to create.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2016, 06:52:28 am »
I like the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series, so that's where my name came from. However, its meaning has become more personal once I started producing more seriously.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2016, 10:28:18 am »
Quote from: Final Kindgom on February 18, 2016, 06:52:28 am
I like the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series, so that's where my name came from. However, its meaning has become more personal once I started producing more seriously.

haha cool i've played kingdom hearts 1 and 2 and nearly all the Final fantasy games but i stopped since X
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2016, 08:52:41 am »
I have always been interested in space ever since I was a kid :)
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2016, 08:53:27 am »
my actual name... i'm not looking to create an alter ego, or whatever, i just want to be me and do what i do
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2016, 08:57:37 am »
Lydian is the fourth mode. (Music theory) It just so happens that modes have a nice ring to them so I adopted it as my username before someone else took it since the forum is new.

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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2016, 08:59:30 am »
Quote from: Final Kindgom on February 18, 2016, 06:52:28 am
I like the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series, so that's where my name came from. However, its meaning has become more personal once I started producing more seriously.

Just thought I'd add that Yoko Shimomura (Kingdom Hearts) and Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) are some of the best composers in the world.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2016, 10:29:21 am »
i just took my first and second name :')
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2016, 12:09:35 pm »
The first album from my band in 1988 was going to be called "One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue", which is a quote from Carl Sagan and the title of one of the episodes of COSMOS. That album was never finished due to us getting jobs and the fact that dealing with hardware MIDI instruments and 4-track cassettes is no fun at all and getting a decent recording was way beyond our budget.

Anyway, 25 years later I adopted that name for my current project.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2016, 01:46:00 pm »
It was the least stupid of the many, many stupid names I have come up with over time.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2016, 03:37:00 pm »
One day, I was bored at work and started contemplating the idea of electronic music being often described as "cold", which got me thinking about "frozen music", and boom, I came up with cryophonik.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2016, 03:35:56 am »
ndetro means willpower, determination, success in some dead ancient African language.
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2016, 07:40:19 pm »
I'm Jewish, and it's a word in Hebrew that means "a study of morals and self-discipline."
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Re: Your inspiration for your name
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2016, 12:35:30 pm »
Aaand here goes the "most stupid alias/nickname" dishonor. :D

I liked this (by today standards pretty silly) movie when I was a kid. There was an extremely clumbsy character named "Lawerence Farley". I was, and still am, extremely clumbsy too, so I chosed his surname as a nickname on various internet forums. ...and there was a lot of them.
The catch is, I didn't realize two things:
1. Chris Farley, the comedian, existed. ...which makes that alias virtually "ungooglable".
2. Choosing surname as alias is pretty stupid idea as there might be other people who acually have that surename trying producing too. :D
...and that happened. So, quite uncreativelly, I added few letters. Trainwreck. :D

I thought about changing it, but as my only kind of a "real world" success was a remix competition, resulting in a collab that has this sh*tty alias on it, I think I might keep it. Or naah? Dunno.
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