Tim Rutherford-Johnson | Contributors

Tim Rutherford-Johnson is author of Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 (University of California Press) and blogs about contemporary music.

Critic's Guides

Sounds Funny: A Report from the Borealis Festival

At this year’s platform for experimental music in Bergen, laughter was the most striking sound

BY Tim Rutherford-Johnson | 28 Mar 18

Opinion

Forty Years of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

From the drone blasts of Polwechsel to Pauline Oliveros's ecological politics, deep listening at the festival’s anniversary edition

BY Tim Rutherford-Johnson | 07 Dec 17

Opinion

Under A Cloud

SoundCloud has been invaluable to the new music community for both documentation and discovery – now the audio-sharing platform is in peril

BY Tim Rutherford-Johnson | 10 Aug 17