Before Oval brought the artful use of CD-skipping to the attention of a larger audience, Nicolas Collins was using CD (and CD player) manipulation, as well as a variety of electronics, in his compositions. After studying with {$Alvin...
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A dozen small LCD screens, removed from cheap handheld games, are hung along the walls of a darkened room. Rea...
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In Devils Music (1985) fragments of radio broadcasts are digitally sampled, looped, re-triggered and occasiona...
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The first piece for my trombone-propelled electronics (1986)-- a homemade DSP system controlled by, and playin...
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Four homemade oscillators are modulated by the flickering flame of a candle. In memory of Michel Waisvisz (194...
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A Step Sequencer controlling the volume of a guitar, made with cheap and cheerful CMOS chips. I really recomme...
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Work for two hacked CD players skipping through Schubert, accompanied by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble for the...
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Seven players attempt to re-animate deceased and discarded electronic circuitry (cell phones, computer motherb...
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A self-stabilizing network transforms acoustic feedback into an architectural raga , influenced by sound and m...
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An installation/chamber opera based on seance culture. The audience moves an inverted glass across a table; it...
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Various Artists - Tellus #20 Media Myth cassette - Tellus - 1988 - US...
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Demonstration video of 2 of 4 channels of continuous-loop multi-screen projection. Videography by Tommy Heffro...
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Nicolas Collins introduces Lucier festival produced by Dag in De Branding, The Hague (NL), May 29, 2010. Video...
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Cheap electronic noise makers and cassette tapes are mixed together under joint care of a performer and the co...
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Anthony Ptak and Nicolas Collins live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn, 24 Feb 2007. Part of a series of duets ...
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A model train track runs across the floor, with a steel wire stretched above it. The engine has a thin bolt at...
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At the 2005 edition of the Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, hosted by Queen s University Belfast, in...
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First public solo singing performance, 10 year old Nick Collins Justin Bieber Baby at Quincy Senior High Schoo...
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Performance Salvage di Nicolas Collins, con la partecipazione di sei degli iscritti al workshop sull hardware ...
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A simple square wave oscillator made with a cheap and cheerful CMOS chip. It s the first chip project from Han...
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Akira Sakata, Nic Collins and Robert van Heumen trio at STEIM in Tokyo, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo Feb 29, 2008...
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Electronic music pioneer Alvin Lucier amplifies his own brain waves. Nicolas Collins electronics. 1965....
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Nic Collins shows how to use telephone taps and coil pickups to eavesdrop on the hidden sounds of electromagne...
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Compilation of video clips from hacking workshops by Nicolas Collins, 2008-2009....
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The Yamaha DD-10 has got to be one of the most Lofi programmable drum machine ever made. You can program 2 sep...
Devil's Music [Bonus Tracks] Devil's Music Leave It Behind Sound Without Picture
