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Tim Rutherford-Johnson

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Tim Rutherford-Johnson is a British new music critic and journalist. He is the author of Music after the Fall: Modern Composition and Culture since 1989 , The Music of Liza Lim, and co-author of Twentieth-Century Music in the West. 

He writes regularly for numerous publications, venues, and record labels in the UK and Europe and publishes a fortnightly newsletter on new music, Purposeful Listening.


  • Room Tone: Scanner

    20 November 2026

    Robin Rimbaud has been a fixture of British electronic music since the early 1990s. To launch Verdurin’s new series of critical listening sessions, he presents his album ‘Fibolae’, with a response from music writer Tim Rutherford-Johnson.

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