From 5f277a00892ef801501d41c997b341d06044af5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tucker Johnson <93456960+tuckerjohnson@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 17:34:36 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] bio creation --- bios-tj.ms | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bios-tj.ms diff --git a/bios-tj.ms b/bios-tj.ms new file mode 100644 index 0000000..be7d823 --- /dev/null +++ b/bios-tj.ms @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +.fam Junicode +.nr HM 0.5i +.nr PO 0.5i +.nr LL 7.25i +.nr LT 7i +.nr FM 0.01i +.nr PS 10p +.nr VS 15p +.nr y 1900+\n(yr +.ds CH + +.de heading +. nf +. ps 13 +. B "\\$1" +\h’0n’\v’-1.2n’ +. ps 11 +. sp -1 +. fi +.. + +.de BP +. ie '\\n(.z'' .bp \\$1 +. el \!.BP \\$1 +.. + + +\# -----------------------TOP------------------------------ +.ce 0 +.ps 18 +.B "Tucker Johnson" +.ps 10 +.I musician, +.I technologist +(bios | updated \n(mo-\ny) +.TS +tab(|) nospaces; +l rx. +169 spring tree ln|T{ +.I "tucker [@] newer.systems" +T} +Rochester, NY|T{ +.I "(727) 483-3689" +T} +14612|T{ +.I "www.newer.systems" +T} +.TE +\# +\# +\# -------------------------------------------------------- +.heading "full length bio" +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 (*a presence within reassembly*) and First Place Oral Presentation in 2021 (*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, greener 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 spank; + Logan Barrett, a full-length album of improvised music. +Tucker has recently performed works by Peter Ablinger, Sam Pluta, and Leah Mullen. + +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 {{< yelr words="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 {{< yelr words="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 {{< yelr words="Hochstein School in Rochester," >}} and serves as personel recruiter for the {{< yelr words="Eastman Graduate Composers' Sinfonietta" >}} + +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. \ No newline at end of file -- 2.39.5