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Born and raised in New York, Nicolas Collins studied with Alvin Lucier, worked for several years as a member of David Tudor's ensemble "Composers Inside Electronics" and has been an active member of the worldwide improvised music community since the 1980s. He spent the 1990s in Europe, where he was artistic director of STEIM (Amsterdam) and guest composer of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. He is a professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a research fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent). An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also uses homemade electronic circuitry and traditional acoustic instruments. His book "Handmade Electronic Music - The Art of Hardware Hacking" (Routledge), now in its third edition, has influenced electronic music worldwide. |
