Original edition

Title
The Voice of New Music by Tom Johnson
New York City 1972–1982
A collection of articles originally published in the Village Voice
Author
Tom Johnson
Drawings
Tom Johnson
Publisher
Het Apollohuis Eindhoven
Editors
Tom Johnson, Paul Panhuysen

ISBN 90-71638-09-X

Digital edition

Title
The Voice of New Music by Tom Johnson
New York City 1972–1982
A collection of articles originally published in the Village Voice
Author
Tom Johnson
Drawings
Tom Johnson, from his book ‘Imaginary Music’
Publisher
218 Press
Editors
Tom Johnson, Paul Panhuysen
Coordination
Hélène Panhuysen
Word processing
Marja Stienstra
File format translation
Matthew Rogalski
Digital edition
Javier Ruiz

First digital edition 2002, revised 2014
Reprinted with permission of the author and the Village Voice ©1989
All rights reserved

Im­age credits

Front cover images extracted from the book Imaginary Music by Tom Johnson, published by 218 Press

Cover photo of the original edition from The Bears Symphony, 1984 by Paul Panhuysen

Tom Johnson

Original backcover photo by Lona Foote, 1981

Tom Johnson, born in Colorado in 1939, received B.A. and M.Mus. degrees from Yale University, and studied composition privately with Morton Feldman. After 15 years in New York, he moved to Paris, where he has lived since 1983. He is considered a minimalist, since he works with simple forms, limited scales, and generally reduced materials, but he proceeds in a more logical way than most minimalists, often using formulas, permutations, predictable sequences and various mathematical models. Among his latest works, Looking at numbers, a new book written with the mathematician Franck Jedrzejewski, has been published by Springer Basel in 2014.