David Torn is a composer, texturalist, guitarist, and producer, internationally renowned for his unique musical voice. His characterful and compositionally textural work has had material impact and influence upon both film scoring - through this own scores, in addition to his creative contributions to scores by Carter Burwell, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Cliff Martinez, Howard Shore, Mark Isham, and others - and, generally, upon contemporary electric, electro-acoustic and electronic music. David has contributed to recordings by other musical artists of note as diverse as David Bowie, Tim Berne, Jeff Beck, Mick Karn, David Sylvian, John Legend, Tori Amos, Sting, Madonna, Meshell Ndegeocello, John Popper, Jan Garbarek, Jarboe, Laurie Anderson, Kaki Kimg, kd lang, Chocolate Genius, Don Cherry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tony Levin, Andry Rinehart, David Douglas, and Manu Katche.
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