Connections between music and the natural world are major themes in Edmund Campion's work, which includes such compositions as Practice for full orchestra and computer (commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra), Outside Music for ensemble with synthesizer (2005) (commissioned by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players), and Corail (Coral) for saxophone and live electronics (2001-present) (commissioned by IRCAM). In two of his scores, l'Autre (commissioned by Radio France and performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in 2003) and ME (commissioned by the CIRM in Nice, France and recently performed by Thomas Buckner at the Eighth San Francisco Electronic Music Festival), Campion explores close collaboration with poet John Campion in an exploration of art born of ecological concerns. A native of Dallas, Texas, Edmund Campion (b. 1957) did his doctoral work in composition at Columbia University and attended the Paris Conservatory where he worked with composer Gérard Grisey. In 1993 he was selected to work at IRCAM where he composed Losing Touch for vibraphone and tape, and was subsequently commissioned to write a large-scale piece for interactive electronics and MIDI grand piano as well as the full-length music theater work Playback. Campion joined the composition faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996, where he is also Co-Director at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) (www.cnmat.berkeley.edu).