Nicolas Collins
"Computers, circuits and signal processors are merely skeleton keys for gaining access to rooms for which the landlord has yet to give us legitimate ones -- the thief who jangles them too loudly is quick to find himself confined."
Nicolas Collins is a composer, performer, and installation artist. His work transforms of small amounts of found sounds, texts and technologies suspending and varying fleeting sonic events.
Collins' installations and performances have been presented at venues around the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art, De IJsbreker, Het Concertgebouw, Berlin Biennale, ZKM, Ars Electronica, London Musicians' Collective, Tokyo P/N, Art Summit Indonesia ... He has received grants and commissions from New York State Council on the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York Foundation For The Arts, Pro Music Nova, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, DAAD Artist-in-Residence (Berlin), Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Nederlands Stimuleringsfonds, British Arts Council ... He has curated shows at PS1/The Clocktower, The Kitchen, Luzern Festwochen, Podewil, Freunde Guter Musik, De IJsbreker, and Korzo Theatre.
Nicolas Collins teaches at the Sound Department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Music Journal.
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