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David Behrman

David Behrman

David Behrman has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 8 June 2014. David Behrman's music has been featured on 55 episodes.

David Behrman (born Salzburg, Austria, August 16, 1937) is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether interview series. He is known as a minimalist composer.

His music has often involved interactions between live performers and computers, usually with the computer generating sounds triggered by some aspect of the live performance, usually certain pitches, but sometimes other aspects of the live sound, such as volume in QRSL (as recorded by Maggi Payne on The Extended Flute (CRI807). Many of his significant works, such as On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Small Talk, and others have been released on Lovely Music.

In 1994, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

He has been a member of the Avery Graduate Arts Program faculty at Bard College since 1998. He was co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in 1975-1980, and has taught also at Cal ARts, Rutgers, and the Technical University in Berlin.

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David Behrman

David Behrman has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 8 June 2014. David Behrman's music has been featured on 55 episodes.

David Behrman (born Salzburg, Austria, August 16, 1937) is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether interview series. He is known as a minimalist composer.

His music has often involved interactions between live performers and computers, usually with the computer generating sounds triggered by some aspect of the live performance, usually certain pitches, but sometimes other aspects of the live sound, such as volume in QRSL (as recorded by Maggi Payne on The Extended Flute (CRI807). Many of his significant works, such as On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Small Talk, and others have been released on Lovely Music.

In 1994, he was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

He has been a member of the Avery Graduate Arts Program faculty at Bard College since 1998. He was co-director of the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in 1975-1980, and has taught also at Cal ARts, Rutgers, and the Technical University in Berlin.

Original source: Last.fm

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On The Other Ocean
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.1977
Interspecies Smalltalk Part 1
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.1987
Leapday Night Scene 3
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.1987
All Thumbs
David Behrman
Alga Marghen2017
Unforeseen Events
David Behrman
Experimental Intermedia Foundation1991
View Finder
David Behrman
Experimental Intermedia Foundation1991
Interspecies Smalltalk Part 2
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.1987
A Traveller's Dream Journal
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.0
Figure In A Clearing
David Behrman
Lovely Music, Ltd.1977
Circling Six
David Behrman
Alga Marghen2017