The Hub is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 "computer network music" ensemble consisting of John Bischoff, Tim Perkis

Tim Perkis

Tim Perkis is an experimental musician who works with live electronic and computer sound.He has founded or played in live computer network bands such as the...

, Chris Brown, Scot Gresham-Lancaster

Scot Gresham-Lancaster

Scot Gresham-Lancaster is a composer, performer, instrument builder, educator and educational technology specialist with over three decades of professional experience. He is dedicated to research and performance using the expanding capabilities of computer networks to create new environments for...

, Mark Trayle

Mark Trayle

Mark Trayle is a California based musician and sound artist working in a variety of media including live electronic music, improvisation, installations, and compositions for chamber ensembles...

 and Phil Stone

Phil Stone

Phil Stone was an Oxford, Mississippi, attorney who was a mentor of the young William Faulkner. Educated at the University of Mississippi and Yale, Stone had a law office in Oxford, Mississippi and provided the services of his secretary to type and submit Faulkner's early literary works to...

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The Hub grew from the League of Automatic Music Composers: John Bischoff, Tim Perkis

Tim Perkis

Tim Perkis is an experimental musician who works with live electronic and computer sound.He has founded or played in live computer network bands such as the...

, Jim Horton, and Rich Gold. Perkis and Bischoff modified their equipment to allow more musicians and founded The Hub.

They have collaborated with Rova Saxophone Quartet

Rova Saxophone Quartet

The Rova Saxophone Quartet is a San Francisco-based saxophone quartet formed in October 1977 at the same time as their "less adventurous" but better known colleagues the World Saxophone Quartet. The name "Rova" is an acronym formed from the last initials of the founding members: Jon Raskin, Larry...

 and Alvin Curran

Alvin Curran

Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....

. They currently perform around the world after a hiatus.

Discography

• The Hub (1989, Artifact ART 1002)
• Wreckin' Ball (1994, Artifact ART 1008).
• The Hub: Boundary Layer (2008, Tzadik - 3cd box set)

External links

• Indigenous to the Web: Early Network Bands in the San Francisco Bay Area