In the 1980s, he co-founded and co-directed the New England Computer Arts Association, NEWCOMP, together with Curtis Roads (1981-1991). In 1999, his 30-year long work as a cognitive musicologist was introduced to, and explained for, a larger public in J.N. Tabors OTTO LASKE: NAVIGATING NEW MUSICAL HORIZONS, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, a Festschrift written by international colleagues. The book contains a comprehensive bibliography of Ottos compositions, poems, choreographies, and musicological writings.