Austin Oting Har is a composer, writer, performer, and new music advocate with a background in music technology and ancient philosophy. His works utilize ancient concepts, languages, and instruments, digital sound design and creative coding, bridging traditional, experimental electronic, contemporary classical, and popular music worlds. His collaborations extend globally, engaging interaction designers, linguists, poets, and cultural bearers in Greek tragedy, Japanese noh theatre, and renga poetry with contemporary, intercultural music and literature. 

An Associate Artist of the Australian Music Centre, Austin’s music has been released on the labels Neuma Records (US) and Possible Futures (Germany), commissioned by the activist opera company White Snake Projects (US), festivals Dark Mofo (Australia), Berlin Atonal and MaerzMusik (Germany), and published by BabelScores (France). Awards include a Special Prize in the Ise-Shima International Composition Competition (Japan), the Carillon Society of Australia Composition Competition, and the Create NSW Arts and Cultural Fund. His research has been published in Context: Journal of Music Research (Melbourne University), Leonardo (MIT Press), and Organised Sound (Cambridge University Press). His poetry has been published in journals including Modern Haiku, Acorn, and Presence. 

He was a Visiting Scholar-Composer at University of California, Berkeley and is currently an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University.