Umm, someone has alot of free time ;)
Rob
damek@earthling.net wrote:
quoted 1 line First off, let me enter a disclaimer here that I am
> First off, let me enter a disclaimer here that I am
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 is a field'' )
11. field -- (a region in which military operations
are in progress; ``the army was in the field awaiting
action'' )
12. field -- ((horse racing) all of the horses in a
particular race)
13. field -- (all the competitors in a particular
contest or sporting event)
14. field -- (a geographic region (land or sea) under
which something valuable is found; ``the diamond
fields of South Africa'' )
15. field, field of view -- (the area that is visible
through an optical instrument)
16. airfield, landing field, flying field, field -- (a
place where planes take off and land)
Taking all of this together, what does this have to
say about Ae's newest effort? I think it's pretty
obvious. "Confield" is obviously a concept album
about the devious underbelly of horse racing. "Con"
as in the art of the con, and "field" as in a field of
horses.
There, now you know!
-adam
PS - not to mention the most obvious anagrams:
DOLCE FIN
COLD FINE
CLOD FINE
DOC ELFIN
COD ELFIN
LICE FOND
CEIL FOND
NICE FOLD
COLE FIND
FOCI LEND
FLOC ENID
FLOC DINE
CLIO FEND
LOCI FEND
COIL FEND
ICON FLED
COIN FLED
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