The Hub is an American "computer network music" ensemble formed in 1986 consisting of John Bischoff,

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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,

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, and Rich Gold. Perkis and Bischoff modified their equipment for a performance at The Network Muse Festival in 1986 at

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in San Francisco. 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. The Hub was the first band to do a telematic performance in 1987 at the Clocktower in New York. Since this work represents some of the earliest work in the context of the new live music practice of

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, 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

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and BiLE- the

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. They have collaborated with

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, and

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. They currently perform around the world after a multi-year hiatus, ending in 2004. In 2018, The Hub was awarded the Giga-Hertz Prize for lifetime achievement in electronic music by ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Discography

*
The Hub
' (1989, Artifact ART 1002) *
Wreckin' Ball
' (1994, Artifact ART 1008). *''The Hub: Boundary Layer'' (2008,

Tzadik Tzadik ( he, צַדִּיק , "righteous ne, also ''zadik'', ''ṣaddîq'' or ''sadiq''; pl. ''tzadikim'' ''ṣadiqim'') is a title in Judaism given to people considered righteous, such as biblical figures and later spiritual masters. The ...

- 3-CD box set)

References

External links

Baranski Sandrine
La musique en réseau, une musique de la complexité ? Éditions universitaires européennes, mai 2010
Baranski Sandrine
La voix du réseau selon Chris Brown
American electronic music groups {{US-electronic-band-stub