Jo Johnson's musical path has been serpentine. In the 90s, she played guitar with the punk band Huggy Bear, who were inspired by and aligned with the riot grrrl and queercore punk movements. Huggy Bear toured with Bikini Kill the UK and supported Sonic Youth, playing across Europe, Japan and the US. In the 2000s Jo organised underground techno parties with Bleep43 and later founded the crew’s record label, Bleep43 Recordings, releasing music by Detroit’s DJ Stingray and ERP (Gerard Hanson). In the 2010s Jo began releasing meditative, minimalist music influenced in large part by the work of women artists – Alice Coltrane, Laurie Spiegel, Pauline Oliveros and Bjork – as well as Don Cherry, Drexciya, Autechre and Robert Hood. Bleep43 has also evolved – their immersive “horizontal” London events create a space for deep(er) listening and space travel, with artists like Sarah Davachi, Rrose, Bana Haffar, Polypores, Jonathan Fitoussi, Loula Yorke, Ana Quiroga and the Transcendence Orchestra. Jo’s debut solo album, Weaving, was released on Further Records in 2014 and has been called a modern classic. Since then she has released a live album, The Serpentine Path, on Going In; an EP, The Wave Ahead, on Mysteries of the Deep, and has self-released two EPs, Knowledge of the Possible and The Windmill on the Hill. She has contributed tracks to a number of compilations, including Partials II and III (Frequency Domain), Less Popular than Cats (Verdant) and Tenements (Apartment). Jo is a Freerotation festival resident and has played at Parallel (Barcelona), Variations (New York) and Iklectik, Cafe Oto, The Pickle Factory, Village Underground and The Purcell Room in London. During the pandemic, she began collaborating remotely with pianist and composer Hilary Robinson and together they released Session One, a live album of manipulated piano and synthesis, on 9128.live (a sub-label of A Strangely Isolated Place) and performed at Daylight Music with Xenia Pestova Bennett and Karlheinz Essl, and Sarah Angliss. The duo have a self-released EP, Antenna Echoes, available on Bandcamp.