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.B "Tucker Johnson"
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-.I "composer, improviser, technologist"
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-.heading "full length bio"
+.heading "Full Length Bio"
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-Currently based in Rochester, New York, Tucker Johnson's
-musical practice includes works for soloists, ensembles,
-and electronic media.
-
-His music has been programmed and honored at festivals
-and events, including the inaugural Dot-The-Line new
-music festival (Seoul) Longy Divergent Studio (Boston),
-soundSCAPE Festival (Cesena), Composing in the Wilderness
-(Prince William Sound & NYC), Shastra Rhythm Workshop
-(New Jersey), and the National Young Composers' Challenge
-(Orlando). In 2021, he was awarded the Marjorie Jane
-Brewster Memorial Music Scholarship; a scholarship awarded
-each year to one graduating Penn State student to pay for
-graduate studies at another institution. Additionally,
-Tucker received two awards for Outstanding Undergraduate
-Research at Penn State: the Peter T. Luckie Award in the
-spring of 2020
-.I "(a presence within reassembly)"
-and First
-Place Oral Presentation in 2021
-.I "(Listening to Ghosts, Imagining Lost Futures: Metaphor and Structure in Wears and Tears)."
-Interested in interdisciplinary practice, He
-served as a collaborative creator in a workshop with
-artist Nick Cave and the "Music for the Visible Turn"
-concert at the University of South Florida Contemporary
-Art Museum in 2019.
-
-He seeks to draw connections between philosophy, mathematics,
-and design through his work. These ideas are often
-synthesized through a blend of experimentation and highly
-organized systems. Recent explorations in Tucker's music
-have included prescriptive applications of mathematical
-relationships/number sequences, the reorganization of
-improvised materials, and serial structures. Experiences
-reading, hiking and amateur botanizing can be
-found intertwined in his work, alongside interests in
-open-source software and teaching.
-
-As a performer and improviser on bassoon and electronics,
-Tucker participates in various collaborative and solo projects.
-His duo project with percussionist Lionel Martinez (spank;)
-recently released
-.I "spank; + Logan Barrett"
-, a full-length
-album of improvised music. Tucker has recently performed works
-by Peter Ablinger, Sam Pluta, and Leah Mullen.
+.B "Tucker Johnson"
+is a composer, performer, and educator pursuing a 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.
-A consistent supporter of new music, Tucker has helped
-organize many events, festivals, and concerts. From 2017-2019
-he served as a production team member, librarian, and
-logistics coordinator for the New Music Consortium at the
-University of South Florida, a student organization dedicated
-to the performance and promotion of new music. Tucker helped
-coordinate the 2018 USF New Music Festival, the 2019
-International Call for Scores, and several other events
-during his time with the organization. In 2020 he helped to
-relaunch Penn State's Living Music student organization.
-As president of Living Music, he coordinated several guest
-lectures, a weekly radio show, and the inaugural Penn State
-International New Music Festival. Currently, he works as an
-intern with the Hochstein School in Rochester, and serves as
-personel recruiter for the Eastman Graduate Composers'
-Sinfonietta.
+His music has been concertized and honored at festivals and events, including the Dot-The-Line new music festival (Seoul), Longy Divergent Studio (Boston), soundSCAPE Festival (Cesena), Composing in the Wilderness (Prince William Sound & NYC), Shastra Rhythm Workshop (New Jersey), and the National Young Composers' Challenge (Orlando). In 2021, he was awarded the Marjorie Jane Brewster Memorial Music Scholarship, a scholarship awarded each year to one graduating Penn State student to pay for graduate studies at another institution.
-Tucker received the BM in music composition from the
-Pennsylvania State University, where his composition teachers
-were Baljinder Sekhon and Steven Rice. He previously studied
-with Susanna Hancock and Paul Reller at the University of
-South Florida. Tucker is pursuing the MA in music composition
-at the Eastman School of Music, where he serves as a teaching
-assistant for the Eastman Audio Research Studio. There he
-studies with Robert Morris, David Liptak, and Matt Barber.
+Tucker is a sound engineer, technician, and teaching assistant with the Electronic Music Studios at Eastman (EMusE) and has produced and performed dozens of electroacoustic works in this position with artists and ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound, 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, and other computer-assisted methods, with a tendency to favor recycled and reclaimed computer hardware. Some of this work can be heard in improvised performances with Belgian saxophonist Floris Van Der Veken.
-.BP
-.heading "shorter bio"
-.sp .5
-Currently based in Rochester, New York, Tucker Johnson's
-musical practice includes works for soloists, ensembles,
-and electronic media.
-Tucker seeks to draw connections between philosophy, mathematics,
-and design through his work. These ideas are often
-synthesized through a blend of experimentation and highly
-organized systems. Recent explorations in Tucker's music
-have included prescriptive applications of mathematical
-relationships/number sequences, the reorganization of
-improvised materials, and serial structures. Experiences
-reading, hiking and amateur botanizing can be
-found intertwined in his work, alongside interests in
-open-source software and teaching.
-Tucker received the BM in music composition from the
-Pennsylvania State University, where his composition teachers
-were Baljinder Sekhon and Steven Rice.
-Tucker is pursuing the MA in music composition
-at the Eastman School of Music, where he serves as a teaching
-assistant for the Eastman Audio Research Studio. There he
-studies with Robert Morris, David Liptak, and Matt Barber.
+A consistent supporter of New Music,