hehehehe, you have far too much time on your
hands!...either that, or you're nuts...
--- Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com> wrote: > First
off, let me enter a disclaimer here that I am
quoted 109 lines not completely serious - they're just a couple of
> not completely serious - they're just a couple of
> guys
> making music, and if you like the album or don't
> like
> the album, fine. Now, on with the fun!
>
> I find it interesting that, in the few messages in
> which any discussion of the title of Autechre's new
> album has come up, people have only mentioned how it
> looks like "cornfield" minus the "r." Is it just
> me,
> or is this really amusing?
>
> You're only looking for the most obvious thing, and
> even there, you seem really concerned about what's
> missing. This is not really a good way to listen to
> Ae's music, so it seems it may be a shallow way to
> look at their titles.
>
> What *is* there? Not to get too deep, but both
> "con"
> and "field" are words on their own:
>
> The noun con has 3 senses:
> 1. con -- (an argument opposeed to a proposal)
> 2. convict, con, inmate, jailbird, gaolbird -- (a
> person serving a prison sentence)
> 3. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con,
> confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting,
> flimflam -- (a swindle in which you cheat at
> gambling
> or persuade a person to buy worthless property)
>
> Con is also a verb with 2 senses:
> 1. swindle, rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud,
> mulct, gyp, con -- (deprive of by deceit; ``He
> swindled me out of my inheritance'' )
> 2. memorize, con, learn -- (commit to memory; learn
> by
> heart)
>
> ...and an adverb:
> 1. con, in opposition -- (on the negative side;
> ``much
> was written pro and con'' )
>
> Already we begin to see the multi-faceted nature of
> yet another Autechre release. We know they like to
> play with language (latin even!) in their titles,
> there must be *something* to "confield," and aside
> from the humor derived from the fact that most of
> you
> so-called "intelligent" heads aren't looking any
> further, I really doubt it's "cornfield."
>
> Of course, as gods, I'm sure they intended that as
> well, since if "cornfield" is all you see, of course
> it's boring - cornfields are boring!
>
> But I'm just getting started! Guess what: The noun
> field has 16 (!) senses:
> 1. field -- (a piece of land cleared of trees and
> usually enclosed; ``he planted a field of wheat'' )
> 2. battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field
> -- (a region where a battle is being (or has been)
> fought; ``they made a tour of Civil War
> battlefields''
> )
> 3. field -- (somewhere (away from a studio or office
> or library or laboratory) where practical work is
> done
> or data is collected; ``anthropologists do much of
> their work in the field'' )
> 4. discipline, subject, subject area, subject field,
> field, field of study, study, branch of knowledge --
> (a branch of knowledge; ``in what discipline is his
> doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in
> their
> subject"; "anthropology is the study of human
> beings''
> )
> 5. field, field of force, force field -- (the space
> around a body within which it can exert force on
> another similar body not in contact with it)
> 6. field, field of operation, line of business -- (a
> particular kind of commercial enterprise; ``they are
> outstanding in their field'' )
> 7. sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena -- (a
> particular environment or walk of life; ``his social
> sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of
> employment"; "he's out of my orbit'' )
> 8. playing field, athletic field, playing area,
> field
> -- (a piece of land prepared for playing a game;
> ``the
> home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field'' )
>
> 9. plain, field, champaign -- (extensive tract of
> level open land; ``they emerged from the woods onto
> a
> vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his
> youth'' )
> 10. field -- (a set of elements such that addition
> and
> multiplication are commutative and associative and
> multiplication is distributive over addition and
> there
> are two elements 0 and 1; ``the set of all rational
> numbers
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