# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-tenney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:37:22.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-tenney"
name: "James Tenney"
slug: "james-tenney"
description: "James Tenney was an American composer, music theorist, and pianist. He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, and microtonal tuning systems including extended just intonation. His theoretical writings variously concern musical form, texture, timbre, consonance and dissonance, and harmonic perception."
tagline: "American composer and music theorist (1934–2006)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Tenney.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: "1934-08-10"
deathDate: "2006-08-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.043890865954923
  historical:           10.56684933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855101/"
    handle:    "nm0855101"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
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    title: "چيمس تينى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "James Tenney"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney"
    title: "James Tenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney"
    title: "James Tenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Τζέιμς Τέννι"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney"
    title: "James Tenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney"
    title: "James Tenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tenney"
    title: "James Tenney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ジェームズ・テニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "James Tenney"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump