Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1961-01-22
- Active to
- 2019-09-11
bedroombedroom popfolkindie popindie rocklo-fi
Discography
- Songs of Pain1980
- The What of Whom1982
- Don’t Be Scared1982
- Hi, How Are You1983
- More Songs of Pain1983
- Yip/Jump Music1983
- Continued Story1985
- Respect1985
- Retired Boxer1987
- Merry Christmas1988
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,040
- Total plays
- 78,058
Tags
contemporary classicalmicrotonalAvant-GardeClassicalchamber music
Ben Johnston (Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr., Macon, Georgia, USA, March 15, 1926 – July 21, 2019) was an American contemporary music composer using "just intonation" (system of tuning). He was called "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" by Philip Bush (1997) and "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" by John Rockwell (1990). Johnston taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1951 to 1986, before retiring to No
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,410x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,863x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,527x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,790x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,413x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.biffyclyro.com
- Image
- Ben Johnston.JPG
Show 3 more facts
- date of birth
- 1980-04-25
- Commons category
- Ben Johnston
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Connections
singing
Entity
Glasgow
Entity
rock music
Entity
musician
Entity
Wayback Machine
Entity
twin
Entity
drum kit
Entity
percussion instrument
Entity
Rage Against the Machine
Entity
progressive rock
Entity
songwriter
Entity
Kilmarnock F.C.
Entity
Kilmarnock
Entity
drummer
Entity
cajón
Entity
Neil Peart
Entity
Ayrshire
Entity
Warner Records Inc.
Company
Biffy Clyro
Entity
bassist
Entity
Categories
1980 births21st-century British drummersAlumni of Stow CollegeBiffy Clyro membersBLP articles lacking sources from July 2010British identical twinsIdentical twin malesIncomplete lists from August 2008Living peoplePeople from KilmarnockScottish alternative rock musiciansScottish drummersScottish male drummersScottish rock drummersScottish twinsTwin musicians