Idioteque
What was Radiohead's first American hit?
"Creep" from their first album
What work did Paul Lansky make inspired by the Tristian Chord? Whren?
- mild und leise; - worked on it for months between 1972-3; finished in 1974
What theories are there about the name "Idioteque"?
1. Brad Osborn: "teque" = discotheque; Electronic Dance Music (EDM) 2. Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) for home listening 3. band has not given an official explanation for the name
What chord system did Lansky create for his piece?
1. E flat - G; B flat - D - two major third intervals separated by a minor third
What were the notes of the Tristian Chord? Why did the chord make an impression?
1. F-B, E sharp-D sharp 2. made an impression b/c it was not resolved in the expected way
What albums resulted from the six-man group project (2)
1. Kid A (2000) 2. Amnesiac
Who are the members of Radiohead + what do they play?
1. Thomas "Thom" Yorke: lead vocalist, guitar; 2. Jonathan "Jonny" Greenwood: keyboard, guitar; 3. Colin Greenwood: bass guitar; 4. Edward "Ed" O'Brien: backup vocalist, guitar; 5. Philip "Phil" Selway: drummer
What did Jonny's drum machine consist of?
1. old synthesizers ("like Roland 1987") 2. record player on top 3. radio to create white noise
How did Lansky manipulate the Tristian Chord?
1. replaced F with the enharmonic pitch "E flat" 2. found he could arrange the chords as: E flat - G sharp, B - D sharp (a minor third between the first two, major third between second two; minor third between
What occurs during the coda?
1. sounds appear and disappear 2. shrieking fx in background 3. faint "and the children first" 4. tambourine shimmer; high-hat sounds at one point 5. mild und leise at times
What recognitions has OK Computer received? (2)
1. voted best album ever made by Q Magazine; 2. Best Alternative Album at the Grammys in 1998
How many beats does the drum pattern last each time its heard?
1.5 beats (off-balance sensation)
When and where was Radiohead's first official show?
1987; Oxford club
When did Radiohead begin to fill up their schedules for shows more often?
1991
What is the time signature of Idioteque
4/4 (common time)
How long is the chord progression in Idioteque?
5 measures long
How long was Jonny's drum machine when done?
50 minutes
What time signature is the drum beat in Idioteque written in?
6/4
Idioteque is the ____ track of which album?
8th track of Kid A
By when did Radiohead have enough material their experimental "six-man group project"?
April 2000
Why was Radiohead not satisfied after OK Computer?
Colin Greenwood explains that other guitar bands were doing similar things; they wanted to do something more
What record did On a Friday sign on with? When? What change did the label ask them to make?
EMI; 1992; asked to change their name
What record was mild und leise and Short Piece from?
Electronic Music Winners (1976)
What country is Radiohead from?
England
What group is Thom Yorke part of, besides Radiohead
Friends of the Earth
What did Lansky submit mild und leise to?
International Electronic Music Competition
Who sought out Lansky to get permission to sample mild und leise?
Jonny Greenwood
Who is the youngest member of Radiohead? How old was he when he joined?
Jonny Greenwood; 13
Who created the first layer of music for Idioteque? What did he make
Jonny Greenwood; drum mahcine
What lyrics occur in the Pre-Chorus
Mobile's chirping, mobiles working take the money and run take the money and run, take the money
Who was Radiohead's producer?
Nigel Godrich
What was Radiohead's original name?
On a Friday
What was Radiohead's first album
Pablo Honey
Who took inspiration from the Tristian Chord for an electronic music piece almost a century after the original music drama?
Paul Lansky
Who made "Idioteque"? When?
Radiohead, Paul Lanksy, 2000
What fx plays briefly before mild und leise? Who wrote it?
Short Piece; Arthur Kreiger
Who picked out the portion of the drum machine sequence that contained mild und leise
Thom Yorke
Who sang in Idioteque
Thom Yorke
Who was typically the songwriter for Radiohead early on?
Thom Yorke
Where did the name "Radiohead" come from?
a Talking Heads song
What happens when the lyrics "Ice Age coming" is sung
all fx cuts out EXCEPT for the drum sequence
How does Idioteque end?
all sound except for shrieking cuts out
Where did Lansky get the name of this piece from?
an aria in Tristian und Isolde
In Idioteque, what represents the false sense of safety in the modern world?
bunker
Why did Radiohead not play often early on?
busy college schedule
What did Radiohead include on the liner notes of Kid A
credit and assurances that Lansky and Kreiger's works were sampled with permission of them and Sony
What is the "irregularity" this quote is referring to in Idioteque?: "this degree of irregularity is found very seldom on [Radiohead's] first two albums"
drum bet and chord progression pulls the listener in opposite directions
What does fx stand for
effects
Where did Jonny get mild und leise?
got the Electronic Music Winners record from a used records show
What did Radiohead's early music resemble
grunge style of Nirvana
How does Yorke's singing amplify the sense of hysteria?
high tessitura
Define melisma (melismatic test-setting)
multiple pitches sang on one syllable
What idea did Radiohead's producer have for them after OK Computer?
next works to be a "six-man group project": split the band into two groups; one group creates sequences of sounds, and the other uses the sequences to create full-bodied works
The resulting albums from the six-man group project can be described as having what kind of feel genre-wise?
orchestral/electronic/big band feel
What about the drum pattern recalls EDM?
ostinato
The lyrics of Idioteque conjure up what kinds of imagery?
post-apocalyptic; anxious postmodern images
Where was Lansky working? What was he working as?
professor of music composition at Princeton
Where did the members of Radiohead meet? When?
public school in the mid-1980s
"Ice Age Coming" are lyrics from which part of Idioteque?
second verse
What type of text-setting is most often used?
syllabic text-setting (one pitch per syllable)
Where did the Tristian Chord come form?
the Prelude of Richard Wagner's music drama Tristian und Isolde
What word in Idioteque uses melismatic-text setting? How much doesthe pitch change?
time (during the chorus); drops 8 notes
When did Radiohead begin to go their own way in terms of musical style?
with their albums The Bends and OK Computer
