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by Ludger Brümmer (Editor), The Hub The Hub (Composer), John Bischoff (Artist)
The US ensemble The Hub is one of the pioneers of network music and live cod-ing. The formation consisting of Tim Perkis, Scot Gresham--Lancaster, Chris Brown, John Bischoff, Phil Stone, and Mark Trayle emerged from the League of Automatic Music Compos-ers in 1986. They revolutionized electronic music with democratically organized compo-sition and performance processes operating in networks and received the Giga-Hertz Prize from the ZKM Hertz-Lab. The publication depicts the collective's work in a historical context, allows companions and musicologists to have their say and brings together the group's (annotated) compositional writings for the first time. These scores form the heart of the book and are not only archival documents, but also instructions for playing and the starting point for future projects of a new generation of network music.
Author Biography
The Hub is an American computer network music ensemble formed in 1986 consisting of John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Mark Trayle and Phil Stone. The Hub was the first live computer music band whose members were all composers, as well as designers and builders of their own hardware and software.
The Hub grew from the League of Automatic Music Composers: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis, Jim Horton, and Rich Gold. Perkis and Bischoff modified their equipment for a performance at The Network Muse Festival in 1986 at The LAB in San Francisco.[1] Instead of creating an ad-hoc wired connection of computer interaction, they decided to use a hub - a general purpose connection for network data. This was less failure-prone and enabled greater collaborations.
Since this work represents some of the earliest work in the context of the new live music practice of Networked music performance, they have been cited as the archetypal network ensemble in computer music. The Hub's best-known piece, Stuck Note by Scot Gresham-Lancaster has been covered by a number of network music bands, including MiLO- the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestraand BiLE- the Birmingham Laptop Ensemble.
They have collaborated with Rova Saxophone Quartet, Nick Collins, Phill Niblock, and Alvin Curran. They currently perform around the world after a multi-year hiatus, ending in 2004.
