John Aulich is a composer, technologist, researcher and educator currently based in the UK. His work has been performed internationally by ELISION, International Contemporary Ensemble, and members of the London Symphony Orchestra. He has also participated in numerous festivals and schemes, including LSO Soundhub, Impuls in Graz, and MATA in New York. His music was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show (formerly Hear and Now).
John’s music spans a number of broad themes, including viscerality, ambiguity of meaning, sensuality and touch, His work is characterized by evocative, highly-charged and volatile sound-worlds stemming from the physicality of performance, the erotic and the anxious. A particular focus of his latest work is abject, disgusting and surreal sound-worlds.
John studied at the University at Buffalo from 2018 to 2022, with David Felder, and prior to that at the University of Huddersfield with Aaron Cassidy and Bryn Harrison. John’s solo percussion piece, six doors of the invisible, was nominated for the British section of the ISCM in 2023, and his string quartet, slacken tired shrouds, was a runner up for MIVOS/Kanter Prize in 2022. He currently teaches on a part-time basis at the University of Edinburgh.