Sunday 02 March 14h-18h
Nicolas Collins
The Victorian Synthesizer
Workshop
Alternative microphones: contact microphone, coil pickup, etc.
The hacking workshop would start with “The Victorian Synthesizer” (a quirky instrument made with nothing more than a speaker and a battery — see ). Then we’d make contact microphones, coil pickups for “sniffing” electromagnetic fields, and experiment with using speakers as microphones. This would run about 3 hours. There would be a cost of €5- per person for the parts I bring for them to use and keep. And there are supplies you must provide.
Bio
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. For many years he was a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent). 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), now in its third edition, has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. His new book, Semi-Conducting- Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket, will be released by Bloomsbury in early 2025.
Bio
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins spent most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Artistic Director of STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. For many years he was a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Editor-in-Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and is currently a Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent). 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), now in its third edition, has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. His new book, Semi-Conducting- Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket, will be released by Bloomsbury in early 2025.