Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson (1939-2024) was an American composer, born in Greeley, Colorado, who lived in Paris from 1983 until his death. He is known for minimal music built on counting, combinatorics and other mathematical procedures that the listener can follow, and as a critic for The Village Voice, where in 1972 he was the first to call this music minimal. Johnson studied at Yale (BA 1961, MMus 1967) and privately with Morton Feldman, and wrote for The Village Voice from 1971 to 1983; the reviews were collected as The Voice of New Music (1989).