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Omnimusicality describes the competencies, skillsets, fluencies, and workflows of the electronic music producer who engages music from many angles and by many means. The producer is omnimusical in being simultaneously a composer, performer, sound designer, editor, and engineer who writes parts, designs sounds, programs MIDI and automates its parameters, sculpts audio, invents timbres, finger-drums beats, shapes arrangements, crafts mixes, and builds tensegrity through the interaction of many sonics within a musical system. Omnimusicality is a kind of virtuosity, whereby the producer plays the DAW and its softwares–playing a musical system as a composite instrument, knowing how the elements of the system are joined in a cybernetic circuit. Omnimusicality is creatively polyrhythmic: to be omnimusical is to practice production by attuning to sound, one micro-aspect at a time, finding a balance between control and out of control in the Quest to create a dynamic music alive at many levels at once.