is a composer and improviser working largely in the domain of digital media, exploring how contingency and listening together shape musical structure and performer interpretation, as well as how they may blur boundaries between composer, performer, and generative structures. Osmun’s compositional work is permeated by recurring themes of digital materiality, listening subjectivity, and the sublimity of entropy and noise.
Osmun is a Ph.D. Candidate in Composition at the University of California San Diego and holds a Lecturer position in Composition at San Diego State University where he teaches courses on electronic music, recording, and composition. His music and research have been presented internationally, being shown at IEM-KUG (AT), the SEAMUS National Conference (US), the SCI National Conference (US), NYCEMF (US), Neofonía Festival de Música Nueva de Ensenada (MX), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (DE), Omaha Under the Radar (US), the Radigue at 90 Conference (FR), and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (US). He has written works for line upon line, Alarm Will Sound, the St. Louis Symphony, and SPLICE Ensemble, as well as for numerous friends in close collaboration. His scholarship on Éliane Radigue has been published in TEMPO.
Solo Electronics Improvisation
High Desert Soundings Fundraising Concert
August 31 @ Oracle Egg, Los Angeles
2025
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New work for Cello and Electronics
with Peter Ko and Han Zhang
Winter 2026
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POETICA by Chaya Czernowin
Performing electronics with Steven Schick, red fish blue fish, and Jacob Sundstrom
Los Angeles
Spring 2026
“Historicisation and Rupture: Éliane Radigue’s Occam Océan“
Published in TEMPO (Cambridge University Press)
Winter 2025
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POETICA by Chaya Czernowin
Performed electronics with Steven Schick, red fish blue fish, and Jacob Sundstrom
January 15, 7:00pm @ CPMC, UCSD
2025
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line upon line Winter Composers Festival Fellow
World Premiere of Four Striation Sculptures for line upon line
January 11, 7:00pm @ CRASHBOX, Austin, TX
2025
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line upon line Winter Composers Festival Fellow
Solo electronic improvisation
January 8, 7:00pm @ CRASHBOX, Austin, TX
2025
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Hyperlung for Ensemble Apparat
October 10, 7:30pm @ CPMC, UCSD
2024
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Speculative Sound Synthesis Symposium
Performance/presentation of THRUMMER
Sasha Ishov (flute) and Michael Jones (percussion)
September 26-28 @ IEM-KUG, Graz, Austria, 2024
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Resident Artist at IEM, Kunstuniversität Graz
Summer 2024