wikipedia.org: "John Butcher (born 1954 in Brighton, England) is an English tenor and soprano saxophone player who has lived in London since the late 1970s. He began playing at the University of Surrey where he was studying physics. He received his PhD in theoretical physics with his thesis published as Spin effects in the production and weak decay of heavy Quarks. After that he left academia to focus on music." Read on
The WIRE: "This key player in the second wave of British Improv reinvents the saxophone via digital transformation, acoustic science and a heightened sense of space."