John Bischoff (1949) is an American composer and pioneer in live computer music who has been active in San Francisco's Bay Area experimental music scene for over 25 year. He studied composition with Robert Moran, James Tenney, and Robert Ashley, and is now a lecturer in Computer Music at the Center for Contemporary Music, Mills College, California. Bischoff is particularly known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as his ground-breaking work in networked computer bands. With Jim Horton and Rich Goldhe (and using Commodore KIM 1 personal computers), he formed the League of Automatic Music Composers in 1977; considered to be one of the first computer network bands.
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Recorded in the Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College in Oakland, California, with minimal edits and no overdubs.. Field Transfer projects the sounds from an analog circuit into juxtaposition with facets of raw digital audio. As a performer interacts with the circuit—which consists of two square-wave oscillators activated by pressure sensors and shorting disks—instances of pulsed and modulated sound are triggered in the laptop in a manner that couples the analog and digital sources together. Sudden change in the circuit can act as a trigger for starting sound, interrupting sound, and redirecting sound in the laptop. The circuit audio can also drive the laptop to track in harmony at times.
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Cat. number: SAUNA13
Year: 2012
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Recorded in the Littlefield Concert Hall at Mills College in Oakland, California, with minimal edits and no overdubs. The final mix consists of dynamically changing direct and room mic signals. In silver ink silkscreened and stamped black cardstock sleeve with double-sided printed insert. Program repeats on each side.
