Also, many have asked about the sample that is used in "Idioteque."
Well, as the Kid A booklet states, the sample is from
the classical electronic composer Paul Lanksy's song "Mild Und Leise."
Paul recently made a comment about Radiohead and the sample on his website,
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/%7Epaul/radiohead.ml.html.
Here is a quick snippet:
"The English rock band Radiohead uses a sample
from my very first computer piece, mild und leise, (this is an mp3 file)
on one of the tracks on their new CD, Kid A.
(Yes, they very graciously asked permission, and I gave it. )
In fact, I really like what they did with the sample;
it is quite imaginative and inventive.
mild und leise was composed in 1973 on an IBM 360/91 mainframe computer.
I used the Music360 computer language written by Barry Vercoe.
This IBM mainframe was, as far as I know,
the only computer on the Princeton University campus at the time.
It had about one megabyte of memory, and cost hundreds of thousands of $$
(in addition to requiring a staff to run it around the clock). At that point
we were actually using punch cards to communicate with the machine, and
writing the output to a 1600 BPI digital tape which we then
had to carry over to a lab in the basement of the engineering quadrangle
in order to listen to it.
Here is a photo of me in the lab a few years later.
The piece came out on a Columbia/Odyssey LP in 1975 or so as a result
of a contest run by the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
(I've occasionally seen it for sale on Ebay), and
Jonny Greenwood came across it in a used record shop
when the band was on tour in the United States recently
I think it sold about 7000 copies, which is a lot for a classical recording.
(Kid A will sell that in the first 10 seconds of its release!)"
You can read more from Lanksy and even download the song that was sampled at
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/%7Epaul/radiohead.ml.html.
jonathan
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