 John Bischoff (born 1949 in San
Francisco) has been creating electronic music for solo performer and in
computer network bands for over 20 years. He received a BFA from California
Institute of the Arts in 1971 and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills
College in 1973. His teachers in music composition and electronic music
have included Robert Moran, James Tenney, and Robert Ashley. 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 Knst in Berlin, Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven,
and Fylkingen in Stockholm. He is a founding member of the League of Automatic
Music Composers, the first computer network band, and co-authored an article
on the League's music that appears in "Foundations of Computer Music"
(MIT Press 1985). Since 1985 he has 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.
bischoff@mills.edu
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