JAMES HORTON studied at the Center for Contemporary
Music at Mills College in the early1970s with Robert Ashley, and performed
extensively with non-keyboard analog synths in the mid-70s. From 1976 until his death in 1998 he
created a body of interactive algorithmic real-time computer music. He was
a co-founder of the League of Automatic Music Composers, a member of RotaLeague,
and a founding member of the Just Intonation Network and of the Cactus Needle
Project. In 1995 he compiled a documentary history of contemporary and avant-garde music practice in northern California |