John Butcher
John Butcher, born in Brighton in 1954, is an English saxophonist, improviser and composer. A physicist by training, he left academic research in 1982 for music and has since played with hundreds of musicians, from Derek Bailey and John Stevens to Polwechsel, Phil Durrant and John Russell, and in long-running duos with drummers and electronic players. His work ranges through free improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked studio pieces and explorations with feedback, amplification and extreme acoustics: the saxophone played inside oil tanks, caves, reservoirs and mausoleums, where the space becomes half of the instrument.
John Butcher, born in Brighton in 1954, is an English saxophonist, improviser and composer. A physicist by training, he left academic research in 1982 for music and has since played with hundreds of musicians, from Derek Bailey and John Stevens to Polwechsel, Phil Durrant and John Russell, and in long-running duos with drummers and electronic players. His work ranges through free improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked studio pieces and explorations with feedback, amplification and extreme acoustics: the saxophone played inside oil tanks, caves, reservoirs and mausoleums, where the space becomes half of the instrument.
