Tucker Johnson is a composer, technologist, and educator based in Brockport, 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 engage with music from other times and places, establishing connections and references to histories of musical culture. Experiences reading, hiking, and amateur botanizing are intertwined in his work, alongside a passion for open-source software and teaching.

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 by his duo TAPH, with Belgian saxophonist Floris Van Der Veken, and in recordings with percussionist/guitarist John McGovern.

Tucker serves as an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Fredonia and an instructor for the Eastman Community Music School, teaching courses and lessons in composition, electroacoustic music, media composition, and music technology. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at the Eastman School of Music. He holds the MA and the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, as well as a BM from Penn State University. Additional studies were completed at the University of South Florida. His principal teachers have included Robert Morris, Elizabeth Ogonek, Matthew Barber, David Liptak, Baljinder Sekhon, Sarah Genevieve Burghart Rice, Paul Reller, and Susanna Hancock.