Tucker Johnson

Technical Director/Webmaster

Tucker Johnson is a composer, performer, and educator pursuing the Ph.D. in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. His musical practice includes works for soloists, ensembles, and electronic media, including pieces designed for indoor and outdoor installation. He seeks to create highly organized systems to build connections between philosophy, design, and personal experience. Many of his works commune with music from other times and places, establishing links and references to histories of musical culture. Experiences reading, hiking, and amateur botanizing can be found intertwined in his work, alongside a passion for open-source software and teaching.

Tucker serves as a sound engineer, technician, and teaching assistant with the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE) and has produced and performed dozens of electroacoustic works in this position with artists such as conductor Alan Pierson, percussionist Dan Druckman, and soprano Jamie Jordan. In his research, he has worked to develop approaches to music composition and collaborative improvisation using mathematics, networked computer instruments, machine listening, ambisonics, and other computer-assisted methods, with a tendency to favor recycled and reclaimed computer hardware. Listeners can hear this work in improvised performances with saxophonist Floris Van Der Veken, recordings with percussionist/guitarist John McGovern, and performances with Ossia New Music.