David Mitchell Torn, born 26 May 1953 in Amityville, New York, is an American guitarist, composer, and producer who blended electronic and acoustic textures through looping and effects. He began in 1970s with Zobo Funn Band, later joining Everyman Band, Jan Garbarek’s quartet, and recording for ECM, Windham Hill, and CMP. David Torn released Best Laid Plans (1985), Cloud About Mercury (1987), Door X (1990), Gtr Oblq (1998), Only Sky (2015), and Three Movements with Sonar and J. Peter Schwalm (2023). He worked with David Bowie, k.d. lang, Madonna, John Legend scored films The Big Lebowski and The Departed. David Torn earned Grammy nomination for The Order (2003) and Jackson Hole Film Festival Best Score award for Believe in Me (2006). A 1990s brain‑tumour diagnosis left him deaf in right ear, but he continued to compose and perform. Subsequent releases include Fall to Rise, So Fell to Feel (2024), Finally the Sweetness (2024), and Now I Imagine a Place Not the Same (2026).
