John Croft

John Croft (b. 1971) studied philosophy and music at the Victoria University of Wellington, and composition and music cognition at the University of Sheffield. He has a PhD from the University of Manchester, where he studied with John Casken, and is a Laureate of the Jurgenson Foundation of Moscow. His music draws on the spectral properties of sounds as the basis for harmonic and temporal structures, and recent work focusses on the use of live electronics in ways that extend rather than obscure the bodily relationship between performer and instrument. His music has been played by many ensembles and soloists, including the BBC Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Arditti String Quartet, Ensemble Exposé, Studiya Novoi Muzyki, 175 East, Stroma, Philip Thomas, Matthew Barley, Richard Craig, Barbara Lüneburg, and Xenia Pestova. He has also published articles and chapters on the philosophy of music

Research Overview

Philosophy of Music, Music and Ethics, Composition

Teaching Activity

Music Perception, Instrumentation and Orchestration, Musicology, Music Aesthetics, Live electronics

Publications

Journal Papers

(2010) Croft, J., The spectral legacy (review article), Journal of the Royal Musical Association 135 (1) : 191- 197

(2007) Croft, J., Theses on liveness, Organised Sound 12 (1) : 59- 66

Book Chapters

(2009) Croft, J., Fields of Rubble: on the poetics of music after the postmodern. In: Heile, B. ed. The Modernist Legacy: Essays on New Music. Farnham : Ashgate Publishing 25- 38