- Nicolas Collins
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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]
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]
Contents
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)
References
- ^ http://www.lovely.com/bios/collins.html
- ^ http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/collins.html
- ^ http://www.kalvos.org/collins.html
- ^ http://www.kalvos.org/collins.html
- ^ http://www.saic.edu/people/Collins_Nicolas.html?color=ORANGE
- ^ http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/collins.html
- ^ http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/02/17/loud-objects-nicolas-collins/
- ^ http://www.leonardo.info/lmj/collins.html
- ^ http://www.saic.edu/faculty/fac_lists/index.html#alphasections/SLC_6091
- ^ http://ausland-berlin.de/hardware-hacking-nicolas-collins
- ^ http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/ChristianMarclay/Bios
- ^ http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t903254931
External links
- Interview February 1995 by and copyright © Brian Duguid
- Leonardo Online
- Nicolas Collins's "Devil"s Music 1" (Excerpt) (3:15) published at Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- CDeMusic: Nicolas Collins
- NewMusicBox asks Nicolas Collins: How do composers use the web as a creative medium for music?
- NewMusicBox cover: Nic Collins in conversation with Molly Sheridan, April 18, 2007 (includes video)
Categories:- 1954 births
- Living people
- Wesleyan University alumni
- 21st-century classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- American composers
- American experimental musicians
- Watson Fellows
- Musicians from Chicago, Illinois
- Experimental composers
- Noise musicians
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