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Collide-O-Scope Music is a composer's collective and new music ensemble with a focus on diverse and innovative media forms. The group is led by executive director Augustus Arnone along with a coalition of composers and performers, including Christopher Bailey, Marianne Gythfeldt, Doug Geers, Mikel Kuehn, Julie Harting, David Glaser, Margaret Schedel, and John Jansen. Now in its Fifteenth Season, COSM has dedicated itself to the performance of new musical compositions, commissioning works by Eleonor Sandresky, Christopher Buchenholz, Peri Mauer, Yotam Haber, Spencer Topel, Elizabeth Hoffman, Christopher Burns, Christopher Arrel, Elizabeth Adams, Jeff Snyder, Christopher Bailey, Ken Ueno, Lou Bunk, Nathan Davis, James Romig, Aaron Brooks, Michael Klingbeil, and more. Besides regularly featuring new compositions, COSM concerts have offered a diverse collection of essential classics from the modern repertory, including music by Boulez, Sierra, Xenakis, Eckardt, Finnissy, Martino, Sciarrino, Wuorinen, Cage, Stockhausen, Glass, Brown, and Harvey. The group has experimented with innovative approaches to the concert program itself in the form of immersive productions where fixed compositions give way to episodes of interactive improvisatory music in seamless sets of continuous music. These concerts have often had a strong mixed-media component, co-mingling electronic and acoustic media with a variety of visual forms and the recitation of poetic texts.