Austin Oting Har is a composer, writer, and academic with a background in music technology and ancient philosophy. He is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of the Virgin Islands and in Fall 2024 he will be a Visiting Scholar-Composer at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California, Berkeley. His music has been commissioned by Dark Mofo, Berlin Atonal, and MaerzMusik, and his poetry has appeared in Modern Haiku and Acorn.