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David Claman

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About Me

I'm a composer not a band. But I used to play in bands you've never heard of. My ideas were always way ahead of my hands. So I turned to composing. I studied Indian music at Wesleyan and in India, and later started playing bass in bands. Did that for a while in Boston. Went back to school, got a masters from U of Colorado and then a Ph.D. in composition from Princeton in 2001.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2006
Band Website: davidclaman.googlepages.com/compositions
Influences: Hendrix, Minutemen, Steve Mackey, Steve Reich, Paul Lansky, Alvin Lucier, Ron Kuivila, Minor Threat, John McDonald, Matt Wuolle, Dave Sanford, Bryan Rulon, Wagner, Haydn, Bach, Berlioz, Berg, Xenakis, Babbitt, Mission of Burma, X, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Herman Melville, Primo Levi, Edward Said, K.S. Subramanian, T. Viswanathan, T. Ranganathan, David Kaslow, Richard Toensing, Ramnad Krishnan, Dikshitar, Ockeghem.
Record Label: Innova, Bridge, Capstone, Vox Novus
Type of Label: Indie