# John Bischoff ( American, contemporary ) ## Description American composer and a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers (late 1970s, Bay Area) — among the earliest ensembles to network microcomputers together for live, interactive electronic performance — and later of its successor group The Hub. ## Key Tags #performance #west-coast #sound ## Essential Works - League of Automatic Music Composers performances (late 1970s–80s) - early networked-microcomputer live performance ensemble - The Hub - successor networked computer-music ensemble continuing the League's interactive/networked approach ## Details A pioneer of computer network music, building custom microcomputer systems that performers linked together live so that each machine's output could influence the others' in real time — an early, direct precursor to later networked and laptop-ensemble performance practice. Long associated with Mills College's Center for Contemporary Music in Oakland. ### Concepts and Theories %% none yet %% ### Creative and Technical Practices - [[Performance Art]] - live, improvised networked-computer performance ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - League of Automatic Music Composers - founding member, late 1970s - Mills College Center for Contemporary Music - longtime affiliation ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Corder, Nathan Anthony. "Determining Conditions: Towards an Aesthetic of Emergence in Live Electronic Music." ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018. [link](https://www.proquest.com/docview/2056551576?pq-origsite=primo&accountid=14784).