David C. Johnson

David C. Johnson (January 30, 1940, in Batavia, New York – October 28, 2021, in Basel) was an American composer, flautist, and performer of live electronic music.

He left in 1969, disappointed at their growing rock influences and, according to Irmin, the lack of patience for band's vocalist, Malcolm Mooney, "with his craziness and spontaneity and totally unforeseen sudden outbursts".

In the early 1970s, Johnson joined the Oeldorf Group, a musicians' cooperative, with Péter Eötvös, Mesías Maiguashca, Gaby Schumacher (cello) and Joachim Krist (viola), who organized a Summer Night Music series.

[9] In 1972, with Helmut Lachenmann, he coordinated the Composition Studio at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.

[11] David C. Johnson and Mary Bauermeister (at the time married to Karlheinz Stockhausen) had a daughter Sofie (born July 1972).

David C Johnson at the 1989 presentation of "Gefangene Früchte" for the first MultiMediale festival organized by the Zentrum for Künst und MedienTechnologie, Karlsruhe