David Behrman
August 16, 1937 (87 years old) in
David Behrman (born August 16, 1937 in Salzburg, AustriaInt) is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In the early 1960s he was the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series, which included the first recording of Terry Riley's In C.[1] In 1966 Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma. He wrote the music for Merce Cunningham's dances Walkaround Time (1968), Rebus (1975), Pictures (1984) and Eyespace 40 (2007).
Known For
Credits
- 2010 · Knots and Fields as Self
- 2001 · Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance as Self
- 1976 · A Tribute to John Cage as
- 1974 · Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley as Self
- Future · New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971 as Self