Niki Johnson

About

Niki Johnson is a contemporary percussionist and composer-performer whose musical practice incorporates interdisciplinary collaboration and artistic research. She has been commissioned to compose and perform solo percussion works for the Sydney Powerhouse Museum and Art Gallery of New South Wales, and is a current PhD student at Monash University. As an interdisciplinary collaborator she works with sculptors, sound designers, musicians, fine artists, and theatre-makers to create instrumental sculptures and performances across the disciplines of music, installation and experimental theatre. As a freelancing percussionist she has recorded percussion for the ABC, Sydney Opera House, Phoenix Central Park, and Trackdown Fox studios. As a tertiary educator she is a teaching associate at Monash University, as well as course coordinator of MUS3801 at UNSW. Niki worked previously with HOSSEI on building the sountrack for ESSSENSSSE a performance, installation work at Verge Gallery NSW.

THUNDERBLOOM-LIVE, Liveworks 2024