# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alvin-curran
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:36:17.504Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alvin-curran"
name: "Alvin Curran"
slug: "alvin-curran"
description: "Alvin Curran is an American composer, performer, improviser, sound artist, and writer. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and lives and works in Rome, Italy. He is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds. He was a professor of music at Mills College in California until 2006 and now teaches privately in Rome and sporadically at various institutions. He is an artistic advisor at the American Academy in Rome."
tagline: "American musician and composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Curranwithshofar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1938-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.78
  momentum:             0.6224899598393575
  historical:           9.019044000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1298870/"
    handle:    "nm1298870"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.alvincurran.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "آلفين كوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "آلفين كوران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3"
    title: "アルヴィン・カラン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Curran"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
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  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/89f96a18-5349-4c9b-a488-b8b33cbd84d3"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449059"
    title: "Wikidata"
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  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1355116"
    title: "Alvin Curran"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump