League of Automatic Music Composers
Full results for League of Automatic Music Composers >>The League of Automatic Music Composers was a small group of visionary computer networking musicians from the Bay Area of the US made up primarily of Jim Horton, John Bischoff, and Tim Perkis (although at times the group also included Rich Gold and David Behrman). Their work centered around the hardwired networking of some of the earliest computers, especially the Kim models that were being produced in the 1970s.
The music they made was an experimental maelstrom of electronic sound, dense and, at times, incomprehensible upon a first consumption. As a listener develops and makes multiple aural passes at a piece like Finnish Hall or Martian Folk Music, they begin to unravel the different skeins of electronic sound, and the interest turns from the aesthetic of pure electronic sound, then being practiced by David Tudor and David Behrman (at the time, teachers at Mills College at which many members of the LAMC were involved) to a fascinating study in interrelation. Each bit of information is sent from one player to the next, transformed and fed back to be retransformed and so forth. The massive webs of frequencies are just remnants of a process, great sounding remnants, but still part of a larger experimental whole that opened up worlds for groups like The Hub and Mimeo, and makes the League of Automatic Music Composers an important part of American musical history.
