James Tenney has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 23 October 2014. James Tenney's music has been featured on 23 episodes.

James Tenney (August 10, 1934 - August 24, 2006) was an American composer and influential music theorist.

Tenney was born in Silver City, New Mexico, and grew up in Arizona and Colorado. He attended the University of Denver, the Juilliard School of Music, Bennington College (B.A., 1958) and the University of Illinois (M.A., 1961). He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, Lejaren Hiller, John Cage, Harry Partch, and…