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Idk if you’ve done pit there before, but it was pretty miserable for Bjork. Recommend getting their early and getting a spot on the back wall of the pit so you’ll be able to see something.
I’ve been in the pit at the Shrine multiple times, and yea it sucks in its own neck craney type of way. Being in the pit is still fun for the dancing / camaraderie aspects though.
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Radiohead, most influential rock band of the century, is never coming back It would be true to character for Radiohead to quit without bothering to tell anyone, Drew Magary writes
Radiohead, most influential rock band of the century, is never coming back It would be true to character for Radiohead to quit without bothering to tell anyone, Drew Magary writes
It wouldn't totally shock me if Radiohead was done but I don't know if "the smile kinda sounds like radiohead" is sound evidence to support that claim.
Radiohead, most influential rock band of the century, is never coming back It would be true to character for Radiohead to quit without bothering to tell anyone, Drew Magary writes
Post by 𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖊𝖙𝖍 𝕻𝖆𝖑𝖙𝖗𝖔 on Dec 10, 2022 16:50:15 GMT -5
The sample is from the first minute of the piece so it won't take long to listen from the beginning.
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 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 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. 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). It was called Electronic Music Winners (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 Awill sell that in the first 10 seconds of its release!)
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See if you can guess which part of mild und leise was used in which Radiohead song on Kid A. Hint: the sample occurs in the first few minutes of mild und leise. 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.
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.
Please send me email if you figure it out where the sample is and where it's used on Kid A. I'm curious to see if people can figure it out. If you guess right I'll point you to an mp3 file of my second computer piece, which has never been recorded (commercially released), and never will be...
Wish i saw that sooner to guess just after seeing the paul lansky bit. Jonny talked about him at length in an interview during Kid A promo where they picked songs and artists which they were inspired by during the recording and he talks about the sample.
Have 1 extra pit ticket for The Smile tomorrow (12/21). Picking up my tix from will call around 7PM so you will have to meet me by the box office if you want it. $115.50 face value. DM me with a cell # if you are interested.
Thought the Smile were really great live, but something was missing for me. Of all Thom’s projects - Radiohead, Atoms For Peace, Modern Boxes - this was my least favorite.
Thought the Smile were really great live, but something was missing for me. Of all Thom’s projects - Radiohead, Atoms For Peace, Modern Boxes - this was my least favorite.
Agreed on something missing. I might even say a lot missing. It was just ok for me. There were moments of brilliance (Free In The Knowledge, We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings, You Will Never Work In Television Again, one or two of the new songs), and then a bunch of songs that just....kind of dragged on.
Thought the Smile were really great live, but something was missing for me. Of all Thom’s projects - Radiohead, Atoms For Peace, Modern Boxes - this was my least favorite.
Agreed on something missing. I might even say a lot missing. It was just ok for me. There were moments of brilliance (Free In The Knowledge, We Don't Know What Tomorrow Brings, You Will Never Work In Television Again, one or two of the new songs), and then a bunch of songs that just....kind of dragged on.
Agreed. They drag on and then kinda just stop. There’s not much transcendence in their live performance. It also didn’t help that they played Thin Thing second - for me that was the highlight.
Guess I’d rather just see Radiohead or Thom Yorke solo live.
