Dehiscence, flottements for piano [2003, rev. 2007]

Dehiscences, Lullay for piano with cassette [2005]

hwil for piano [2010]

“atendant, souffrir”, lists, little stars for two pianos [2013] (w/ Ian Pace)

three reversed movements, to bring destroyed objects back to life for piano [2014]

qu’en joye on vous demaine for piano [2017]

mon petit pleurant for piano [2019]

mes pleurants for piano [2019-20]

“Johnson […] has a fascination with and skill in counterpoint, which is evident through many of the pieces on this disc, and the effect of listening to the murmuring, coinciding lines Johnson places amid silences of beguilingly varied qualities is akin to wandering through the remains of a mediaeval abbey, looking at the stones lying in the grass, with no knowledge of how they might once have fit together or how much, exactly, is missing. Johnson uses these medieval fragments to build something anew, something sparser and more contemporary, but which yet retains some esoteric power from the original. His music has an indescribable kind of magic, an almost sacred affect, in that, to borrow words from one of the titles, it can ‘bring destroyed objects [or rarely performed musical fragments] back to life’.
[…]
The overall impression left by this collection, this documentation of determined innovation over the span of Johnson’s career so far via and with ruins from Europe’s musical past, is of a profound and enchanting aesthetic experience. It is an expression of the sublimity of rupture and decay, and of making something contemporary out of the ruins of the past.”

— Tempo: A Quarterly Review of New Music

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