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John Bischoff, of Mills College in Oakland, California, has been active in the SF Bay Area experimental music scene for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bischoff_(musician) https://www.johnbischoff.com/ Lots of amazing interviews with amazing people here: https://econtact.ca/12_2/interviews_golden.html John Bischoff https://econtact.ca/12_2/audio/JohnBischoff.mp3 By now, one of the West Coast biggies, actually, make that international, he’s at the level where he’s thought of as one of the masters, though he is very mild-mannered and modest. In the 70s he formed League of Automatic Music Composers, one of the first computer music network bands, along with Jim Horton, Rich Gold, Tim Perkis. They would use Kim computers and plenty of homemade code and software (and get roasted in the newspapers by the critics especially during New Music America 1981, they were mocked unmercifully, but water off a duck’s back). Who’s laughing now, eh? [November 1988, dur. 11:24] Laurie Anderson https://econtact.ca/12_2/audio/LaurieAnderson.mp3 Probably one of the most famous of all our EA people, who successfully bridged the gap between the avant-garde and the “in the know” mainstream.” Even in the early 80s she packed the Mills College Concert Hall, with her violin, millions of “toys” including vibrators, plenty of digital delay and thrilled us all. A sidebar: when I was interviewing Laurie at The Phoenix Motel in San Francisco, a guy came into the room, she told him to introduce himself to Barbara, and he extended his hand and said: “Hello, I am Wim Wenders”… [17 February 1990, dur. 29:00] |