John Robinson Pierce has been played on NTS in shows including Kaitlyn Aurelia-Smith , featured first on 22 April 2017. Songs played include Five Against Seven - Random Cannon and Molto Amoroso.

John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He worked extensively in the fields of radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. At Stanford's CCRMA he was prominent in the research of computer music, as a Visiting Professor of Music, Emeritus (along with John Chowning and Max Mathews). It was at Stanford that he became an independent co-discoverer of the non-octave musical scale that he later named the Bohlen-Pierce scale.