THE HUB
The Hub is a computer network band from the San Francisco Bay Area, started in the mid-1980s by John Bischoff and Tim Perkis and joined by Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Phil Stone and Mark Trayle. It grew out of the League of Automatic Music Composers. Its members design and build their own hardware and software instruments and link their computers so that players exchange data while performing. Recordings include Boundary Layer on Tzadik.
Boundary Layer
A new recording by the band that pioneered laptop ensembles over twenty years ago coupled with an historic overview of their recordings, unreleased tracks and video clips of the band in performance. Functioning in the West Coast tradition of composer as instrument builder -- redefining music from the ground up -- The Hub makes music using electronic and digital systems of their own devising. A natural extension of the late 1970s ensemble the League of Automatic Music Composers, the group has per…
