Allison Adah Johnson is a composer, musician, and, recently, a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she taught in the Music, Asian Studies, and Cultural Studies departments. She received degrees in music from Stanford University, CalArts, and UC San Diego, and studied gamelan with Djoko Walujo and with Suhardi in Surakarta, Java.

Her theater collaborations have appeared at the the Berlin Volksbühne, Occidental College, CalArts, and Parallel 66, among other places. Her chamber music and multi-media works have been performed at the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the New Directions in Asian-American Music Festival, California Biennial, Feminist Theory & Music, La Jolla Athenaeum, and Frau Musica (nova) Festival in Cologne, among others. She has received grants, awards, and residencies from the American Music Center, the Luce Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, Centrum Arts, and the Getty Foundation.

Her papers on such subjects as Asian American hip hop, women composers, and sign/gesture technology have been presented at such conferences as the Society for American Music, Feminist Theory & Music VI and VIII, and the International Conference of Asia Scholars in Berlin, and her writings on music and culture have been published by Studio-Verlag and in the journals 21st Century Music and Women and Music. She has been a guest lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, Mills College, University of Southern California, UC San Diego, Cal State San Marcos, and Foothill College, and was on the faculty at Occidental College, Cogswell Polytechnical College, and Skyline College.