# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-behrman
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:51:03.961Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-behrman"
name: "David Behrman"
slug: "david-behrman"
description: "David Behrman is an American composer and a pioneer of computer music. In 1966, Behrman co-founded Sonic Arts Union with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma. He was also the producer of Columbia Records' late 1960s Music of Our Time series, which introduced recordings by Terry Riley, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Pauline Oliveros to a wider audience."
tagline: "American composer (born 1937)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Behrman%2C_2012.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: "1937-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.93
  momentum:             0.6319702602230484
  historical:           10.75392533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8784380/"
    handle:    "nm8784380"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ديڤيد بيهرمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Behrman"
    title: "David Behrman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3_(%E4%BD%9C%E6%9B%B2%E5%AE%B6)"
    title: "デヴィッド・バーマン (作曲家)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4_(%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80)"
    title: "Берман, Дэвид (композитор)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "David Behrman"
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    title: "David Behrman"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump