Paul Lansky - Mild und Leise (1973)
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- Опубликовано: 29 авг 2024
- Paul Lansky about his piece:
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 dollars (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. 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). It was called Electronic Music Winners.
It's a very "electronic" piece, quite unlike my later work, but at that time it was hard to do much else. It uses FM synthesis, which had just been worked out at Stanford, and later became the staple of Yamaha's DX7 series of synthesizers, and also a special purpose filter design program written (in Fortran IV) by Ken Steiglitz. Oh yes, the harmonic language of the piece is related to George Perle's 12-tone modal system. George and I had been collaborating for the past four years or so on theoretical developments in this system. The piece is based on the 'tristan chord' and its inversions, hence the title. I worked out a multi-dimensional cyclic array based on this chord as the harmonic basis of the piece, but that's the boring part... I still (sort of) like the piece.
And about Radiohead sample (in Idioteque):
The English rock band Radiohead uses a sample from my very first computer piece, mild und leise, on one of the tracks on their 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.
What's especially cute, and also occured to Jonny Greenwood, is that I was about his current age, when I wrote the piece--sort of a musical time warp.
paul.mycpanel.p...
When I listen to this, I don't think we're scaremongering, this is really happening
me when ice age is coming
and the women and children first
me when I don’t know who’s in the bunker
me when I swallow till I burst
Stop let me here both sides
Here I'm alive.
thank you, this is so hilarious, i laughed until my head came off
The piece itself in its entirety it's beautiful, but that chord progression at 0:43 is something out of this world
That's what Radiohead thought when they took it for their "Idioteque"
Out of this world. Can't be described better.
@@LyoshaTheZebra :O I didn't realize
WHOS IN A BUNKER
Astonishing
This is definitely me when I'm in a bunker
What does that mean?
@@prokdave it's a reference to the song idiotque by radiohead lol
Excuse me sir, you'll have to step out of the bunker. It's women and children first.
@@TisTheDamnStickSeason Let me hear both sides
I’m not scaremongerin’, this is really happenin’ - happenin’!
came cause of Radiohead, but this is honestly super cool in its own right and sounds really eerie. insane this came out 50 years ago
The fact that this was made in 1973 makes my head spin.
Polyphonic FM sounds from a time when the rest of the world was still struggling to produce a (working) polyphonic ANALOG synth...
To be fair, once you have developped FM, raw computer power is the only thing stopping you from adding more voices, whereas going from mono to poly analog is a much more complicated issue.
bro made chords YEARS ahead of its time
Everything all of the time
radiohead boys
radiofeet girls
Idioteque by Radiohead AND Guwop by Young Thug use this sample… crazy
This is truly ahead of its time
True
A wonderful piece, and an amazing source of inspiration for the phenomenal divergence in Radiohead's music career that is "Kid A".
exquisitely true. crazy how art creates more art within itself
Never heard of the tristan chord before this, very interesting.
I always find tritone use compelling. Particularly away from metal. Obviously, it's a staple of say, Pantera, to create the mood of hopelessness and tension, but in classical and ambient I love its use. This Tristan chord is dissonance I hadn't really explored. Cool.
@@lastbrewfan Exactly... same. I learned guitar by playing a lot of Korn, Metallica, Pantera, Manson and NIN. Ive learned a LOT more in between, but lately, a million years later... I'm learning a lot of Beatles songs and am always stunned at how often tritones show up and are either super beautiful, or practically unnoticeable!
This is really happening.
This one is for the children
1:05-1:10 sounds like the music that would be used in the title card of an adventure time episode.
0:43 Women and children first.
Feel like I'm in a bunker
But who's in the bunker though?
I am amazed this wasn't used in the soundtrack for 'Her'
Right
WHAT A MASTERPIECE!
this sounds like everything all of the time
Whos in bunker, and who came here for read replys about radiohead???
I do, I did
i am both, hi from ukraine😅
@@anastasiakasuga800 are you still okay? 😢
@@anastasiakasuga800everything alright buddy?
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0:49
0:51
been listening radiohead for nearly 30 years and I've never heard this ??? woua
You don’t look that old
@@rubayatraiyan9477 So I've been told..
This goes hard
chills.
This is master to be honest
0:40 Hmmmm, sounds familiar 🤔
Idioteque was made in 1999. Paul Linsky made this song in 1973.
@@meowmyr holy crap it's old, it's so weird where the inspiration comes
Young thug guwop
Here, I’m alive
ice age coming ice age coming
welp, paul lansky's a meme now. congrats dude. also everyone here should also check out "fantasies on a poem by thomas campion"
Yes!
me 30 seconds in: Oh, this is certainly an out-there intro! I bet this song'll be a pretty long & dramatic one from the album with heavy lyrics and multiple guitar-only bridges!
me 12 minutes in: ...oh.
Bro thought this was Kid a
i dont know which one i like more wow the original is awesome
❤
Me when this is really happening
def in a bunker right now
banger 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Me when I laugh until my head falls off.
Kinda sounds like mobiles squirking, and dare I say.....chirping?
take the money, run!
@@the_emmo Throw me in the fire!
that looks perfect! i'll rating 10 :)
I’m Thom Yorke and I have shoes for hands
4:52 "Farben"
I haven't seen too much of this.
TFW I can't hear both sides
Jonny Greenwood brought me here
12:08 idioteque v2
no, what inspired idioteque :-)
me when the women and children first
Shit like this make me smile until I burst, excellent work
aNd IN 2001RadIoHEad reLEesaed tHe BIgesT lEFT tuRN iN MUsic HIStorY
*2000
Plot twist: Amnesiac was ThE biGGESt LefT TUrn In muSIC hisTORy
Weediohead.
If I was Paul and I made a song this impactful, I would have sold it, taken the money and ran
0:44
Faster
johnny
Please Mr. or Mrs. Poster person, I NEED to find out what this artwork is because I have been obsessing over it this past week.
lost the file but I will try to find it and credit the artist
@@ThomasRapaille thanks a ton!
Take the money and run, take the money and run
And they let me hear both sides, without scaremongering! How d;ya like that?
0:45 Idioteque
This is for women and children first
I hallucinated by a mushroom
oogus boogus
9:18 lesss goooo
-dababy
Everything all of the time👍🫡🔥
I got here from Boardwalk Empire.
Connect those dots.
Where can I find this on spotify?
This needs some electronic drum beat
Let me hear both sides
Is this on Apple Music?
You ever heard of the search function bro?
@@rorz999 Yeah but whenever i search it some random crap shows up, I wanted to know if the real thing is on there
Me coming here because of radiohead
me when they let me hear both sides
free young thug ong
Here because Young Thug
idioteque
Everything all of the time
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