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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Holding ~100,000 thoughts in my head and so many kind, beautifully creative people in my heart, so for now I’ll just say this: the last two days have meant a lot.

A picture of a name badge that reads: AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA. Kimberly R. Osberg. Participant Composer. she/her

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/04/2026

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

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Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Composer pro tip: give the pianist a section to work out their frustrations from other sections

Screenshot of chamber music (flute, violin now, piano). The piano has huge blocks of notes at a very loud volume meant to be played forcefully with their entire arms. The tempo text reads “Thunderous, crashing”

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

In the composing cave this week; accepting well-wishes and PB&Js 🥪

Diagram of a cave-diver often used in memes about being in an inescapable position.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It’s hard to summarize such a fulfilling weekend of connecting and music-making—rehearsals, performances, and even a recording (my first attempt at producing). This weekend has been galvanizing and so fulfilling. My heart is just fit to burst.

A group of 7 people, some holding musical instruments. They are in front of a large organ with stained glass, and are surrounded by music stands. They are smiling.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Being up this high (10,600ft), the view was spectacular, but what really stood out to me was the quiet—how long it has been since I’ve heard such a deep, sustained quiet like this. A beautiful morning.

View from a top Santia Crest near Albuquerque, NM. Granite peaks, dotted with trees, stretch down into rolling hills that end in a vast, flat plain that extends into the horizon. The sky is clear and boasts a spectacular blue, fading into white as it meets the horizon.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

In ABQ & Santa Fe for a few days of rehearsals, performances, and recording sessions! So grateful to both Chatters PDX & ABQ for commissioning this piece for clarinet+string quartet and making this residency possible!

Image of Albuquerque, NM skyline with mountains in the background.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Humbled to be part of the organizing team for this exciting collaboration between musicians, composers, & environmental orgs. We have to meet our goal by April 6 for the project to continue. Consortium for the works involved will be announced soon. More at the link below! www.yearoftrees.org

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A Year of Trees

The official site for the A Year of Trees project. A Year of Trees is a Portland-based project that brings together musicians and local enviornmental groups to honor and protect trees through music, c...

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The number of times I wrote, saw, or thought the words “project budget” today was NOT something I was warned of in music school! 😮‍💨 (I am 12+thousand collapsed woman…)

A stock image of a woman collapsed on the floor with her glasses fallen away from her hand. The caption reads: 12+thousand collapsed woman…Shutterstock

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Mornings in Portland can be so breathtaking

Mt Hood sits far back in the center of the image, booking up from a dark skyline that starts with hills and breaks out into buildings and lights closer to camera. The majority of the image is dominated by a largely clear sky—a sharp orange near the horizon, fading into increasingly darker shades of blue. There are a few faint puffs of clouds, and one strong jetstreak in the upper right corner.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Happy holidays from Portland! Wishing everyone a few days of nourishing rest, tasty food, good company, and a quiet moment to cherish it all.

A picture of Multnomah Falls on a grey, wet morning. Mist rises against a verdant green cliffface.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Was not expecting to drive on hard mode today and then All Classical Radio starts playing the theme from Princess Bride 😭😭😭😭

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

After a few test runs this weekend to remember how to tape bind music correctly (!!), these pieces are off today to the American String Teachers Association for the national conference this February! ✏️ After these are sent, it’s back to the writing desk again at last! 🎶

Three stacks of music lay on a desk, lit only with a harsh light to the right of the image. The three scores, from left to right, are Dirty Jeans for viola and piano, a work for lever harp, and a work for string orchestra and piano called “To Burst.”

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

I remember in high school & college it was such a tragedy when Friday night was slow / uneventful, but as an adult (especially in the arts!) I am filled with giddiness at an empty Friday evening!

Winnie the Pooh lays happily on his side against a pillow, cuddled up on a large couch.

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Nicole Evans | Editor and Author @thoughtsstained.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I won’t be able to attend (the cost of conferences my GOODNESS), but I’m happy to share that 3 of my works—string orch, viola/pno, harp—will be on the American String Teachers Association’s New Music Readings at the national conference this spring in San Fransisco! Off to edit, print, & ship! 😅

Cover art for TO BURST (string orchestra + piano). Blue lines explode from the title against a yellow background. The bottom reads “KIMPOSITIONS”

Cover art for DIRTY JEANS (viola + piano). Blue jeans are covered in mud and foot prints behind the text with more splatters across the title. The bottom reads “KIMPOSITIONS”

Cover art for NEW MUSIC COOKBOOK (this installment is for solo harp). The title is set inside a pot within music steaming out of the lid. The bottom reads “KIMPOSITIONS”

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Very excited for this update to the bio!!

Image of bio from BlueSky that reads: Composer who loves working with other creators,
thinkers, and tinkerers. She/Her.

Then, highlighted in yellow: Composer-in-Residence for ChatterPDX.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This premiere is coming up fast! So excited for this performance of a multi-movement work for clarinet + string quartet. I haven’t written for string quartet in soooo long, and it was a blast to play with all the different colors & learn from the scores of so many cool composers ❤️

Cover art for a piece called CONVERSATIONS by Kimpositions. The words are broken up in colored blocks.

First page of a score called Conversations for clarinet and string quartet. This first movement is called Chitter Chatter.

First page of a second movement from a piece called Conversations for clarinet and string quartet. This second movement is called Whispers and Murmurs.

First page of a third movement from a piece called Conversations for clarinet and string quartet. This third movement is called Bitching & Moaning

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Incredibly grateful to pianist & curator Nathaniel LaNasa for programming my work on the New York Festival of Song's NYFOS Next series! While I can't be there in person, if any of my NYC friends are in town, I hope you can make it! The rest of the program sounds really lovely.

Event graphic featuring headshots of tenor Benjamin Brecher and pianist Nathaniel LaNasa for the New York Festival of Song Program: The Many Worlds Interpretation on Sunday, November 16th at 3pm. The graphic also includes an image of cover art for the song "You, Us, Me" by Kimberly Osberg (Kimpositions). More information can be found on the NYFOS site.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Taking time today to sort out what’s happening for the next year (?!) on the writing desk. That’s a lot of PB&J’s and emotional support beverages—best get started!

A list of composition projects sorted by month and written in messy short hand. They range from solos, duos, and trio, to art songs, string quartets, and quintets. Many on the list are ambiguous.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

after a clarinet player was arrested at Sunday's ICE protest in downtown Portland, I talked to five artists, crafters and makers - a puppet designer, an illustrator, a graphic designer, a knitter, and a theatre artist - about creativity under fascism www.orartswatch.org/resistance-c...

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“Resistance can be joyful” • Oregon ArtsWatch

Portland protest artists on creativity, resilience, inflatable frogs, and protecting the soul of the city.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Composer achievement unlocked: having my last name in the concert title! So excited to be able to attend the premiere of this work in-person here in Portland, alongside a piece I was actually listening to when I wrote the last movement 🥰

Event information for a concert on December 7th called “Shostakovich and Osberg.” The details read: Kimberly Osberg Conversations for Clarinet and String Quartet. Dmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8.

James Shields clarinet
Yuqi Li, Ruby Chen violin
Haojian Wang viola
Trevor Fitzpatrick cello

Adam Falkner spoken word

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Finishing up work this next week on a new bass clarinet solo for a buddy from grad school (so ignore the messy score)! We’ve been wanting to collab again forever, so I’m extra excited to be working on this!! Current beverage tally: ☕️ - 21 🫖 - 14 💧- 17 🥃 - 2 🔥🍫 - 1 🍋 - 1

Cover art for a piece called “WRECKED.” The word wrecked is tilted and crunched up at the end, and lays on a bed of black scratches and cracks against a bright yellow background.

Snippet of a score for bass clarinet called “Wrecked” (though there is a typo in the score). The music shows extreme registers, and a section of curves lines indicating quiet wailing.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Food for the big game** tonight **dark souls 2 dlc

A sheet pan with loaded nachos and a plate of bacon-wrapped jalapeño poppers. The nachos feature beef, melted cheese, dollops of sour cream, tomato’s, cilantro, avocado, bacon, and green opinions. The poppers are loaded with a cream cheese mixture and feature slightly burnt tops to the cheese.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

New score video is up today! This 2022 piece is a love letter to 3 endangered species. While a bit unnerving at first glance, each has such unique and charming features—it was a joy to capture them in this short work for clarinet, horn & bassoon. Happy October, friends! 🎃 youtu.be/3bFbZzWjgIo?...

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Had a blast Zoom-ing in for a rehearsal of my string orchestra piece, “To Burst” with a group in MN. This piece was originally written for students who had lost their teacher. She was a really special lady, and I’m so happy to see this piece - and the light she inspired - out in the world again!

Image of an iPad screen with an active Zoom rehearsal. The rehearsal includes a conductor leading a group of string musicians in a practice room with a wooden floor and tall ceilings that have curtains and sound panels.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I just found out my setting of "My Father's Dragon" will be featured on part the grand opening of this incredible exhibit at The Rabbit hOle, with members of the author’s family in attendance! To say I'm honored is an understatement!!

An event graphic for an exhibit opening at the Rabbit Hole children’s literature museum called “My Mother’s Father’s Dragon: A Hero’s Journey and the Art of Living.” The exhibit is in Kansas City, MO and runs October 11, 2025 to August 15, 2026.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

So excited by these awesome musicians programming my music this fall! There are never guarantees our work will be heard, and I remain deeply grateful for every performance that takes place. Especially excited for the world premiere in December, and to be included on the NY Festival of Song!

Calendar of events for composer Kimberly Osberg, featuring Kimberly in the image wearing a bright pink hat that reads “PACIFIC NORTHWEST.” She is wearing a pink sweater and a black vest, standing in a brightly lit forest bursting with fall foliage.

CSB at St. John’s | October 9
Collegeville, MN
To Burst
CSBSJU Orchestra, Andrew Towsey-Grishaw

UNC Greensboro | October 10
Greensboro, NC
near death
Calypsus Brass Quintet

CA School of Arts | October 17
Duarte, CA
BRAWL
CSA - San Gabriel Wind Ensemble, Stephanie M. Maletz

NY Festival of Song | November 13
New York, NY
You, Us, Me
NYFOS NEXT Artists

Chatter PDX | December 7
Portland, OR
Conversations for Clarinet & String Quartet
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Chatter PDX

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Just submitted to a call-for-scores for orchestra for the first time since I was in school (never had a piece that fit these calls before now). While it is HIGHLY unlikely anything will come of it, I'm still proud of myself for actually sending something in that I feel good about!

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

This week is all about bass clarinet and shipwrecks and warm beverages at home! 🎶🪨☕️ Beverage count for this project so far: ☕️ - 8 🍵 - 6 💧 - 6 🔥🍫 - 2

Screenshot of sheet music for solo bass clarinet, from the second page of a piece called “WRECK.” Tempo descriptions include “Storming,” and “A bit warmer, hopeful.”

A painting of a famous ship, The Wager, being jostled by the sea

A coffee mug with visible steam seeping out the top

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Ultima @ultimashadow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Genuinely powerful words to live by.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I took some time this weekend to try making my first score video — this short piece for mixed winds is by far one of my most-programmed works, so it felt like the perfect fit for my first attempt! 🎶 Happy listening 🎶

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Our Little Secrets | Score Video | Kimberly R. Osberg

YouTube video by Kimberly R. Osberg

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Did the laundry (and put it away??), cleaned up the house, got organized for the week, and did some baking—a very procrasti-productive day! Tomorrow, we write!! ✏️🎶

An image of banana muffins with chocolate chips in a plastic tub on a counter.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This piece is officially off to the fine musicians of Chatters ABQ & PDX! I’m so grateful I got the chance to write for these two incredible ensembles, and I can’t wait to share more about this work closer to the premiere! No rest for the wicked—onto bass clarinet land to write about shipwrecks! 🪨🚢

Cover art for a piece of music called “Conversations.” The word is split across many rectangles, with a mix of blue, yellow, and white on a field of red. The bottom text says KIMPOSITIONS

A screen shot of the first movement of “Conversations for clarinet and string quartet,” called Chitter Chatter.

A screen shot of the second movement of “Conversations for clarinet and string quartet,” called Whispers and Murmurs.

A screen shot of the first movement of “Conversations for clarinet and string quartet,” called Bitching & Moaning

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This last movement was a real challenge because it’s so different from what I normally write, but it felt good to push myself & get inspired by other music when stuck. This movement features little outbursts from each player, and it was fun to imagine what each one was going on about while writing!

A screenshot of sheet music for the last movement of a work called “Conversations” for clarinet and string quartet by Kimberly R Osberg. The movement is called “Bitching & Moaning,” and features a fast tempo, a groove-based viola line, pizz outbursts from the other voices, and glissando gestures in the clarinet and cello. The tempo is marked “quartet equals 132, Cantankerous.”

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

A little reset before a weekend of wrapping up the last movement of a new work for clarinet + string quartet, and editing parts. This movement in particular has been a real doozy—so!!!! many!! things!!! happening!!!!—but I think it’s going to turn out alright.

An image of a coffee cup, filled with coffee and topped with a floral pattern on cream, with sprinkles of cocoa powder.

An image of a computer screen displaying sheet music in progress. There are many notes across all the pages.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It’s Bandcamp Friday! While I don’t have an album of my own, I am fortunate enough to have music on several lovely albums by some really fantastic musicians with incredible composers—check them out to hear chickens, penguins, wind octet deliciousness, and even a choose-your-own-adventure piece!

Album cover for “Aviary” - an album by Elizabeth Robinson. Elizabeth sits on a white chair against a yellow background, holding her flute in her lap. Features music by Lisa Bost-Sandberg, Nicole Chamberlain, Gay Kahkonen, Anne McKennkn, and Kimberly R. Osberg

Album cover for “Moxie,” of the Chamber Winds of South Dakota (Don Linn, conductor; Elizabeth Robinson, flute). Features music by Nicole Chamberlain, Marie A. Douglas, Alyssa Morris, Jonathan Newman, and Kimberly R. Osberg

Album cover for “Still Waters,” a solo piano album by Chris Opperman. Features music by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Chris Opperman, Philllip Schroeder, Kimberly R. Osberg, and Tyler Kline

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Writing a fast movement with a lot of effects and this is basically flashing across my mind the entire time:

Screenshot of a tweet from 2019, user screaminbutcalm that says:

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!! Yes!!
Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

PRO WRITING TIP: When you have to write really aggressive/angry music but you are just not in the mood, edit the score & parts instead—the anger will come 🥰

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Two movements down, one to go! This project’s beverage count so far: ☕️ - 23 🍵 - 13 💧 - 18 🧋- 1 🍷 - 2 🍺- 3

Screenshot of the first page to the second movement of a score. The title of the movement is”whispers and murmurs,” from a piece called “conversations for clarinet and string quartet.” This movement uses bass clarinet. The music shows a number of tremolos, circular bowings, and stuttering effects in the strings.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

There are two projects I want to talk about publicly but cannot just yet.......as a professional-grade yapper, please send help

Image of SpongeBob sitting at a computer looking calm, vacant, and happy, overlayed with a close-up image of him screaming his noggin off

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

It was too gorgeous not to squeeze in a walk this afternoon—I’ve had a wonderful time adventuring this month, but I’m happy to be back in Portland ❤️

A view of the steel bridge in Portland, OR from the east side of the Willamette River. A train is crossing on the lower level of the bridge. The sky is a brilliant blue and is plastered with puffy, almost glowing clouds.

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Jimmie Myers @jimmiemyers.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them." -Brian Eno

"Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature.
CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them."
-Brian Eno

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Back at the writing desk this week! Wrapping up movement 2 of 3 on an exciting commission, inspired by different types of conversations. While I’ve always loved writing for clarinet, I haven't had much opportunity to write for string quartet, so I've been really enjoying playing around with this!

Screenshot of the first page of music for clarinet and string quartet. The title reads “Conversations for clarinet and string quartet,” composer Kimberly R. Osberg. The music shows individual string instruments entering, building up an ostinato texture. The clarinet enters a few bars later with quick, tuplet runs and short moments of sustain.

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🎶Kimberly Osberg🌲 @kimpositions.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I was taking time to get my writing projects organized in my calendar—and realized I’m nearly booked out to the end of 2026 for commissions 🤯 If you’ve been thinking you want to reach about a commission to be finished in the next year, connect with me soon!

An image of a waterfall streaming off a cliff into a calm riverbed, surrounded by lush green trees in afternoon sunlight.

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