Edmund Campion's music explores relationships between sound and space -- creations that often involve the careful mixing of acoustic instruments and emerging technologies with the invention of new computer-based musical instruments. Practice, commissioned and premiered by the American Composers Orchestra in 2005 and recast for full orchestra and electronics in 2007 has been premiered by Kent Nagano and the Berkeley Symphony and the Nice Philharmonic in France with Peter Rundel. Among his muiltimedia works is the complete ballet Playback, commissioned by IRCAM and the Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatique in collaboration with the the choreogrpaher Francois Raffinot. More recent projects include a French Ministry of Culture Commande d'Etat for Ondoyant et Divers, written for the Peruccsion de Strasbourg Ensemble, and a Koussevitzky Foundation commission for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players.

The French Zelig Ensemble premiered a commission from Radio France at the Festival Presence in 2009 and recently commissioned a new work from Soiciete Generale. The new piece, Auditory Fiction, was premeriered by Cal Performances in 2010 and features a new software tool for control of multiple tempos in live performance. Joshua Kosman wrote, "Campion keeps clarity and even beauty at the fore -- the results were remarkable." The Argento Chamber ensemble premiered Campion's 25' minute digital piano concerto with 17 instruments and computer as part of the Moving Sounds Festival in New York City in 2010.A native of Dallas, Texas, Edmund Campion (b. 1957) did his doctoral study in composition at Columbia University and spent several years in France studying with Gerard Grisey. In 1993 he was selected to work at IRCAM where he composed Losing Touch for vibraphone and tape. He was further commissioned by IRCAM to write a large-scale piece for interactive electronics and MIDI-grand piano. Natural Selection received its premiere with the composer at the piano in 1996. After his return from Paris, Campion joined the composition faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). Other prizes and honors include: the Rome Prize, the Nadia Boulanger Award, the Paul Fromm Award at Tanglewood, a Charles Ives Award given by the Americah Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fulbright scholarship for study in France.