# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-chowning
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:17:43.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-chowning"
name: "John Chowning"
slug: "john-chowning"
description: "John M. Chowning is an American composer, musician, discoverer, and professor best known for his work at Stanford University, the founding of CCRMA – Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in 1975 and his development of the digital implementation of FM synthesis and the digital sound spatialization while there."
tagline: "American composer and inventor of FM sound synthesis"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chowning.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-08-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.987381703470032
  historical:           9.255044
  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/nm1148193/"
    handle:    "nm1148193"
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    title: "John Chowning"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump