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John Bischoff, solo electraocoustic works John Bischoff (born 1949 in San Francisco) has been creating live electronic music for over 25 years. He has composed an impressive body of solo work which explores musical construction from electronic artifact as well as pioneered new collaborative forms of computer music. He has performed extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area, around the US including NEW MUSIC AMERICA festivals in 1981 and 1989, and in Europe including the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Akademie der Kunst in Berlin, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, and Fylkingen in Stockholm. He is a founding member of the LEAGUE OF AUTOMATIC MUSIC COMPOSERS, the world's first computer network band, and co-authored an article on the LEAGUE's music that appears in "Foundations of Computer Music" (MIT Press 1985). From 1985 to 1996 he performed and recorded with the network band THE HUB. Recordings of his solo and network music are available on Lovely Music, Frog Peak Music, Centaur, and Rastascan Records as well as Artifact Recordings. He currently is on faculty and staff at the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland. The Bran (Another plight of medic's) Pos, improvisations Processed voice/electronics DSP aggressor Dada marksman The Bran (...) Pos is a crossbreeding of the academic and the half-wit approaches to making difficult music. Last year he toured the Southern U.S. as part of the 4 Days For Heat Mini-Tour and will be touring the Northeastern U.S. in late summer in support of a brand new CD, "Amantis Incongrue" released on the Chitah! Chitah! Soundcrack label. Other CD releases include a 1998 recording, "Urumgromdom" and "Partial Refund Anxiety Disorder," from 1999. Also known as Jake Rodriguez, who plays bass and voice in the free-mad duo Compomicro-Dexall, designs sound and music for theater in the Bay Area, and helps to run The Clit Stop, a San Francisco-based experimental music series.
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