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David Behrman has been active as a composer and artist since the 1960s. Over the years he has made sound and multimedia installations for gallery spaces as well as compositions for performance in concerts. My Dear Siegfried, Leapday Night, On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Smalltalk, Long Throw, Open Space with Brass and  How We Got Here are among Behrman's works for soloists and ensembles.  Among his sound and multimedia installations are Cloud Music (1979, a collaboration with Robert Watts and Bob Diamond, recently acquired into the collection of the Smithsonian Museum); Pen Light (2002), and View Finder (2005.) His work has been presented at many venues in the USA, Europe and Japan. In 1966, together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, he was a founding member of The Sonic Arts Union. He had a long association with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as composer and performer, created music for several of the Company's repertory pieces, and was a member of the Company's Music Committee from 2004 through 2011. He has taught at several colleges and universities in the USA and Europe and has been a member of the faculty at the Avery Graduate Program in the Arts at Bard College since 1998. Audio recordings of his works are on the XI, Pogus and Lovely Music labels; videos can be viewed at Roulette.org and ubu.com. dbehrman.net