John Bischoff
Date:
Tue, 03/01/2016 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert https://soundcloud.com/johnleebischoff
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Bio:
John Bischoff (b. 1949, San Francisco) has been active in the experimental music scene in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 35 years as a composer, performer, and teacher. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis and the pioneering development of computer network music. His music is built from intrinsic features of the electronic medium: high definition noise components, tonal edges, and structures derived from performance actions in the moment. He has performed in many parts of the US, and in Europe including such venues as the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Akademie der Künst in Berlin, Fylkingen in Stockholm, and T-U-B-E in Munich. He was a founding member, with Jim Horton and Rich Gold, of The League of Automatic Music Composers in 1978, considered to be the world’s first computer network band. He co-authored an article with Horton and Gold on the League’s music that was published in Foundations of Computer Music (MIT Press 1985). He is also a founding member of The Hub, a computer network band that has further expanded on the network music form since 1987. In 1999 he received a Grants to Artists award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York. In 2004, noted media theorist Douglas Kahn published A Musical Technography of John Bischoff in the Leonardo Music Journal (Vol. 14, MIT Press). Two retrospective CD packages documenting computer network music were released in 2007 and 2008: The League of Automatic Music Composers: 1978-1983 (New World Records 2007) and 3-CD set of recordings by The Hub titled Boundary Layer (Tzadik 2008). Recordings of Bischoff’s work are also available on Artifact, 23Five, and Lovely Music. A solo CD titled Audio Combine was release in 2012 on New World Records and was named one of the "Best of 2012" by WIRE magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music at Mills College in Oakland, California.
www.johnbischoff.com/
FREE
Open to the Public