Nicolas Collins

Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is a composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier.[1] He received a B.A. and M.A. from Wesleyan University.[2] Subsequently, he was a Watson Fellow.

Nicolas Collins was "a pioneer in the use of microcomputers in live performance, and has made extensive use of 'home-made' electronic circuitry, radio, found sound material, and transformed musical instruments."[3] He has presented over 300 concerts and installations in Europe, Japan, and the United States as a solo artist and as a member of various ensembles.[4][5] He is a member of The Impossible Music Group with David Weinstein, David Shea, Ted Greenwald, and Tim Spelios.

Collins is a prominent curator of performance and installation art, and has been a curator, policy adviser, and board member for numerous cultural organizations.[6] For example, in the early 1990s he was both artistic Co-Director at STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music), located in Amsterdam and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) composer-in-residence in Berlin.[7] Collins is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the MIT Press.[8] He is also the chair of the sound department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[9][10][11]

In 2006 Collins' book Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking was published by Routledge. An expanded, updated edition was published in 2009.[12] He was a major influence on the establishment of the Musical Electronics Library in New Zealand.[13]

Discography

  • 1982 - Going Out With Slow Smoke (Lovely Music)
  • 1984 - Let The State Make The Selection (Lovely Music)
  • 1985 - Devil's Music (Lovely Music)
  • 1989 - 100 of the World's Most Beautiful Melodies (Trace Elements)
  • 1992 - It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (Trace Elements)
  • 1999 - A Host, Of Golden Daffodils (Plate Lunch)
  • 1999 - Sound Without Picture (Periplum)
  • 2005 - Pea Soup (Appelstaartje)

Bibliography

  • 2006 - Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge)

See also

  • Bart Hopkin, another author with a focus on somewhat identical topics

References

  1. ↑ http://www.lovely.com/bios/collins.html
  2. ↑ http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/collins.html
  3. ↑ http://www.kalvos.org/collins.html
  4. ↑ http://www.kalvos.org/collins.html
  5. ↑ http://www.saic.edu/people/Collins_Nicolas.html?color=ORANGE%5Bpermanent+dead+link%5D
  6. ↑ http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/collins.html
  7. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-21. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  9. ↑ http://www.saic.edu/faculty/fac_lists/index.html#alphasections/SLC_6091 Archived 2010-05-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ http://ausland-berlin.de/hardware-hacking-nicolas-collins
  11. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-08-30. Retrieved 2010-08-30.
  12. ↑ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t903254931
  13. ↑ Kraus, Pat. "MEL prehistory 1". Musical Electronics Library. Musical Electronics Library. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
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