Galen Brown over at Sequenza21 comments on my last post and informs me that Radiohead samples Paul Lansky’s first computer piece, mild und leise, on “Idioteque” from their Kid A album. Here’s the story, as told by Lansky himself. Actually, I knew this (that Radiohead sampled Lansky). My friend, who teaches middle school music (very progressively, I might add) does a unit on sampling for his kids. He plays “Idioteque” by Radiohead followed by the Lansky work, asking his students to try and identify the portion of the work that Radiohead samples.