Squarepusher's wriggling against any kind of restraint extends to his album and composition titles, which frequently feature invented words.
The composition's title derives from a Sanskrit word of many meanings: a song of love, a hymn to joy and the play of the cosmos encompassing time, movement life and death.
He combined the available scientific data about the star system with research into 40s, 50s, and 60s-style travel posters to nail the color, composition, and title placement.
He was outspoken about his own identity as a black queer man, giving his compositions such titles as "Gay Guerrilla" and "Evil Nigger".
Most of his compositions bear titles and are representations of some natural scene or of some poetic idea or work of literature or art.
These jagged compositions, with titles like "Peanut Figure" or "Fifth Pine," conceived under the influence of recreational drugs, Mr. Dunham says, had the feel of ideas realized in fits and starts.
He does this not merely by giving his compositions evocative titles — his catalogue includes "Earth and the Great Weather," "In the White Silence," "Strange and Sacred Noise," "Dark Waves" — but by literally anchoring the work in the landscapes that have inspired it.
The group's compositions had titles like "The Tortoise Recalling the Drone of the Holy Numbers as They Were Revealed in the Dreams of the Whirlwind and the Obsidian Gong, Illuminated by the Sawmill, the Green Sawtooth Ocelot and the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer".
To print the composition's full title would take up a fair chunk of this column.
