Composer and guitarist Tim Johnson currently resides in Chicago with his wife Kyong Mee Choi.

Tim Johnson is a multifaceted creative and performing artist with a lifelong commitment to cultivating deeply engaging, substantive and moving artistic expressions. His algorithmically composed Electric Meditation was most recently performed at the 2005 International Lisp Conference. His orchestra piece Antyphony: Paul Morphy vs. Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard won the 2004 University of Illinois Orchestra Prize. Tim won the 21st Century Piano Commission Award (2001) for which he wrote Sonata Urbana. As a guitarist Tim's most recent premiere was It only needs to be seen for guitar and electronics by Kyong Mee Choi at the 2007 SEAMUS national conference.

There is no end to exploration and discovery as well as cultivation and refinement. All parts of the wheel are needed for it to roll. A fretboard (or a chessboard) is a mountain whose climbing paths we will never exhaust. Audible sound is a window to the universe, musical sound is a special form of language; language is another mountain to which we always find a new point of entry. Microtonality will never be fully understood.

Antyphony: Paul Morphy vs. the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard for modified chamber orchestra

Electric Meditation for two channel fixed media