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University contact page (with email and other details)

Biography

Dr Nick Collins is Reader in Composition at Durham University. His research interests include live computer music, musical artificial intelligence, and computational musicology, and he is a frequent international performer as composer-programmer-pianist, from algoraves to electronic chamber music. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press 2007) and The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2011), wrote the Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley 2009) and co-wrote Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press Introductions series, 2013). Sometimes, he writes in the third person about himself, but is trying to give it up.

Further Links

ChordPunch: a digitally distributed record label for algorithmic music

TOPLAP: Transnational Organisation for the Proliferation of Live Art Programming

A career interview appeared in Plus magazine

A more recent interview, mentioning iPhone development and chordpunch

There are rumours that there is more than one N.Collins. This is healthy and perfectly natural.