John Bischoff

John Bischoff (born 1949) is an American composer and performer from San Francisco who works with live computer music. He was a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers, often described as the first computer network band, and later of The Hub. His solo pieces are built on real-time synthesis, and he taught for many years at Mills College in Oakland. Bischoff studied at the California Institute of the Arts and at Mills College, where he took his MFA in 1973; his teachers included Robert Moran, James Tenney and Robert Ashley.