David Behrman and Terri Hanlon have been partners since the 1970s. This conversation is an opportunity to learn about perspectives, processes and approaches in Behrman's work, as well as to understand the dynamics of collaboration between the couple and how their surroundings permeated the artistic paths of both.

David Behrman

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’ and ‘Long Throw’ are among Behrman's works for soloists and small ensembles.

Behrman's sound and multimedia installations have been exhibited in various galleries and museums. Among the installations are ‘Cloud Music’ (1979), a collaboration with Robert Watts and Bob Diamond; ‘Sound Fountain’ (1982), a collaboration with Paul DeMarinis, ‘Algorithme et Kalimba’ (1986), a collaboration with George Lewis; ‘Pen Light’ (2002), and ‘View Finder’ (2005).

Together with Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier and Gordon Mumma, Behrman founded the Sonic Arts Union in 1966. 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 during its last years. Behrman has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, NYFA, the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, the D.A.A.D., the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the Henry Cowell Foundation. He 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, Lovely Music, Pogus. New World and WERGO labels; videos can be viewed at Roulette.org and ubu.com.

Terri Hanlon

Terri Hanlon is the author of two micro features, "Meringue Diplomacy" (2010) and "Inversion of Solitude" (1993). Both integrate performances by a circle of her gifted artist colleagues with music, lighting, camera and costumes. Terri received a BA in sculpture from the California College of the Arts. In the late 70's she co-founded a performance art group, The EVA Sisters (Terri, Fern Friedman and Deborah Slater) based in San Francisco. The EVA Sisters, named after the astronaut term extra-vehicular activity, also collaborated with David Behrman to produce an early interactive performance art piece, "Looking Past the Future" in 1979. In the late 70's and early 80's, Friedman and Hanlon collaborated with composers Paul DeMarinis and David Behrman and performer Anne Klingensmith to produce the record "She's Wild". They also did several live interactive performance versions of that piece in San Francisco and New York. Terri brought an interest in sociology with her when she moved to New York City in the early 80's, creating a series of short music videos based on various aspects of life on the East and West Coasts. Music by Frankie Mann and Rhys Chatham was featured in several of these videos, which were shown on PBS and various NY downtown nightclubs. In the 90's, Terri moved into making larger-scale video / music features. The first of these pieces, "Inversion of Solitude", was completed in the mid-90's and "Meringue Diplomacy" was completed in 2009. Both could be characterized as performance art-based "disjunctive narratives," growing out of the work she had started in the late 70's with The EVA Sisters. Her documentary ‘The Frog In The Pond’ (2016) is a homage to her hometown, San Francisco, and the art and people who influenced her.

In 2007, Terri Hanlon directed the Roulette TV online video series, ten programs featuring performances by and interviews with a broad spectrum of avant-garde composers, which can be viewed online at ubu.com and roulette.org.

Hanlon is also known for her portraits which combine photography with digital graphics, her designs of conceptual art cards and CD covers. Her Iris print portraits are in private collections in Thailand, Germany, Spain and the United States.

Isilda Sanches

Isilda Sanches is a journalist and a music revealer and promoter. For nearly three decades she has written in publications such as Capital, Independente, Diário de Notícias or Elle magazine. She is currently a contributor to Observador. She has worked on reference radio stations such as XFM and Marginal, founded Rádio Oxigénio in 1999 and has been part of the Antena 3 team since 2015. In addition to a daily broadcast and a section dedicated to science news (Fricção Científica), she is also the author of a weekly radio program, Muitos Mundos, where she seeks to show music without barriers of style, chronology, geography or bpms, but with a special focus on electronic music.