The genre has some antecedents in the electro-acoustic works of more experimental composers like Paul Lansky (particularly on his album Folk Images), and Alan Sondheim.
Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of Radiohead and he has written a short note online inviting listeners to identify where the sample is taken from in the original piece.
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Following that came More Than Idle Chatter, the six compositions of which focus on processings of the human voice using linear predictive coding, granular synthesis, and plucked string synthesis; its three highlights are granular synth pieces called "Idle Chatter," "Just more idle chatter," and "Notjustmoreidlechatter," which look at the same thing from multiple perspectives.
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Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day.
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The Radiohead song "Idioteque", from its 2000 album Kid A, features a prominent sample from Lansky's computer tape piece "Mild und Leise" (1973).
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It was also during the 1980s and 1990s that Carl Fischer Music began to publish the works of fast-rising composers such as Henry Brant, Michael Colgrass, Sebastian Currier, Jason Eckardt, Daron Hagen, Lee Hyla, Martin Bresnick, David Carlson, Paul Lansky, Daniel S. Godfrey, Samuel Jones, and David Maslanka.
A year later he went to Princeton University, where he studied with Milton Babbitt, Edward T. Cone and Paul Lansky, receiving both an M.F.A and Ph.D. in Composition.
Composers and performers from Princeton and elsewhere developed new pieces for the ensemble, including Paul Lansky (Professor of Music at Princeton), Brad Garton (Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center), Pauline Oliveros, PLOrk co-founders Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, Ge Wang, and others.