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New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam) and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. From 1997-2017 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999 has been a professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of homemade electronic circuitry and conventional acoustic instruments. His book, Handmade Electronic Music: The art of hardware hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide.

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