JOHN BISCHOFF

Aperture

Bischoff qualifies his work as the realization of a "reflective intention," where he determines sonic structure not only through the predetermined elements which go into a piece, but also through the active process of listening to the music as it happens and responding accordingly. Aperture opens the possibility for multiple readings through a series of diverse techniques ranging from additive synthesis to FM synthesis to sampled-based processes. Each of the pieces within the album was recorded in real-time with no overdubs.
Item number BJ-CD-2; Compact Disc $16.00



Artificial Horizon

"Bischoff's ARTIFICIAL HORIZON...is moving and evocative. I was especially attracted to AUDIO WAVE. It is music as idiomatic to the computer as a Paganini piece is to the violin."
Erling Wold, COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL, Winter 1991

Item number BJ-CD-1; Compact Disc $16.00

 

 

John Bischoff

JOHN BISCHOFF (born 1949 in San Francisco) has been creating electronic music both for solo performer and in computer network bands since 1973. He received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. His teachers in composition and electronic music have included Robert Moran, James Tenney, and Robert Ashley. He has performed extensively in the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout the US including NEW MUSIC AMERICA festivals in 1981 and 1989, and in Europe including the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Het Apollohuis in Holland, and the Academie der Künste in Berlin. He was 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. He is a recent recipient of a $25,000 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts in New York for his exceptional work in electronic music. Recordings of his solo and network music are available on Lovely Music, Frog Peak Music, Centaur, and Rastascan Records, as well as Artifact Recordings.

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