Person
David Behrman
Acting · Born 1937-08-16
Biography
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
Videotape Study No. 3
Sound Designer
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television
Self
Walkaround Time
Music
Knots and Fields
Self
Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
Self

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance
Self

New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971
Self

A Tribute to John Cage
1976
Filmography
- 2010Knots and FieldsSelf
- 2001Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of DanceSelf
- 1976A Tribute to John Cage
- 1976Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for TelevisionSelf
- 1974Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert AshleySelf
- 1973Walkaround TimeMusic
- 1971New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971Self
- 1967Videotape Study No. 3Sound Designer
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