Arman Gushchian (pronounced GOOSH-chee-AHN) is a composer working at the seam of matter and consciousness — the point where acoustic material and the listening body cross. His music is built from sound the ear cannot finalize: bell spectra, non-octave modes, colors of noise, masses suspended between harmony and timbre — and fragments of existing music, entering as found matter warm with human presence. It does not depict inner states — it produces them: from VOX, an opera-installation where the archival voice of Komitas sounds over living players, to orchestral and chamber works that span from near-motionless intensity to objective, elemental force.

Gushchian has created over forty concert, stage, and installation works, as well as incidental music for ten theatrical productions. His music has been performed across Europe, Russia, the United States, and Armenia by the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the Dresden Philharmonic, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, the Isidore String Quartet, Brightwork newMusic, Apartment House, and the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and presented at the Lucerne Festival, ISCM World New Music Days, reMusik Festival, and the HEAR NOW Music Festival in Los Angeles.

Gushchian graduated with honors from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and continued his composition studies at the Basel Music Academy with Roland Moser and Georg Friedrich Haas (analysis, orchestration) and in the Meisterklasse of the Dresden University of Music with Mark Andre and Franz Martin Olbrisch (computer music).

He has taught at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, the Dresden University of Music, and the HSE Art and Design School. Currently, he teaches at the Hall-Musco Conservatory of Music at Chapman University and has been based in Los Angeles since 2022.

He is the founder and artistic director of the Trajectory of Music cultural platform. Among his largest curatorial projects has been the 6-day Alvin Lucier Festival "Everything Is Real" in Moscow, 2017. Its events have collectively presented 14 world premieres of works by Swiss, French, German, Austrian, Russian, and American composers, gathering about 2500 listeners.