# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-van-tieghem
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:48:22.563Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-van-tieghem"
name: "David Van Tieghem"
slug: "david-van-tieghem"
description: "David Van Tieghem is an American composer, percussionist and sound designer, best known for his technique of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument and for his collaborations with the experimental musicians Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley and David Byrne."
tagline: "American musician and composer"
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: "1955-04-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.59
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.950757333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0888095/"
    handle:    "nm0888095"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%85"
    title: "ديڤيد ڤان تيجيم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%95%DB%8C%DA%A4%D8%AF_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%DB%8C%DA%AF%DB%8E%D9%85"
    title: "دەیڤد ڤان تیگێم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Tieghem"
    title: "David Van Tieghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Tieghem"
    title: "David Van Tieghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Tieghem"
    title: "David Van Tieghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Van_Tieghem"
    title: "David Van Tieghem"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%88%DB%8C%D9%88%DA%88_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%B9%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%AF%DA%BE%D9%85"
    title: "ڈیوڈ وان ٹائیگھم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/411fc5b9-ac13-47c0-9e9e-5fc201619699"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31272"
    title: "David Van Tieghem"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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