He wrote the music for Merce Cunningham's dances Walkaround Time (1968), Rebus (1975), Pictures (1984) and Eyespace 40 (2007).

In 1978, he released his debut album On the Other Ocean, a pioneering work combining computer music with live performance.

Behrman attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where his classmates included Carl Andre, Hollis Frampton and Frank Stella.

[4] He attended the summer school at Darmstadt in 1959, where he met La Monte Young and Nam June Paik.

Many of his significant works, such as On the Other Ocean, Interspecies Small Talk, are based on a pitch sensing computer music system.