He became active in the
San Francisco Bay Area experimental music scene where he spent over 25 years performing, composing and teaching. He has participated in San Francisco's
New Music America festival in 1981 and
New York City's in 1989, where he also performed at Experimental Intermedia and
Roulette Intermedium as well as at
Los Angeles' Beyond Music Festival. Bischoff's performance venues in Europe have included the Festival d'Automne in
Paris, Akademie der Kunst in
Berlin,
Fylkingen in
Stockholm, and TUBE in
Munich. In 1978 he was a founding member of the League of Automatic Music Composers, considered to be the world's first Computer Network Band, and he co-authored an article on the League's music that appears in
Foundations of Computer Music (
MIT Press, 1985). He was also a founding member of the network band
The Hub with which he performed and recorded from 1985 to 1996. Bischoff received a 1999
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. John Bischoff has continued as a visiting professor and composer at Mills College and is associated with its Center for Contemporary Music. ==Recordings==