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Lansky's first album, "Smalltalk" was not released until 1990. It features four tracks, two covering aspects of the human voice, and two looking at two styles of music (metal and harmonica).

His second album (Homebrew, 1992) contains five tracks, including the percussive and aural 18-minute classic, "Table's Clear", featuring samples of his children playing kitchen utensils. Following that came "More Than Idle Chatter", the six compositions of which focus on processings of the human voice using LPC, 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. In 1994, he released "Fantasies And Tableaux", a collection of two earlier works, "Six Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion" and "Still Time". 1995 brought "Folk Images", Lansky's personal interpretation and reworking of a good few folk songs.

At around this point there was a slight change in the style of Lansky's music that made it sound slightly more, for want of a better word, 'modern', and 1997 heralded a one hour 'computer opera', "Things She Carried", a musical portrait about an unnamed woman in a series of eight movements. During the following year "Conversation Pieces" was released, to try and 'gain a fresh perspective on things we may have come to take for granted.'

For three years Lansky failed to bring out any new albums, but in early 2001 "Ride" arrived, featuring a new addition the Idle Chatter family: 'Idle Chatter Junior' and the 19 minute title piece, which tries to simulate a ride through various towns and country.

The Radiohead song Idioteque (Kid A, 2000) features a prominent sample from Paul Lansky's computer tape piece Mild Und Leise (1973). The sample provides the entire harmonyThis article is about musical harmony. For other uses of the term, see Harmony (disambiguation) . Harmony is the art of using pitch simultaneity (or chords, actual or implied) in music. It is sometimes referred to as the "vertical" aspect of music, with m for the song through four looping chords taken from a few seconds of Lansky's original composition. Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of RadioheadThe Music and Art of Radiohead is a collection of academic essays on the band. BooksEnthsiast.com..

Discography:

• Smalltalk, 1990
• Homebrew, 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi
• More Than Idle Chatter, 1992 or 1994(?)
• Fantasies And Tableaux, 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an
• Folk Images, 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja
• Things She Carried, 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t
• Conversation Pieces, 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting
• Ride, 2001
• Alphabet Book, 2002

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