Wed 12 May: Nick Collins

Nick Collins is a composer, performer and researcher in the field of computer music. He lectures at the University of Sussex, running the music informatics degree programmes and research group. Research interests include machine listening, interactive and generative music, and audiovisual performance. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press 2007), and wrote the Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley 2009).

In our final seminar in this series, Nick addressed the topic of collaboration by considering roles in computer music, illustrated through collaborations in interactive music systems, live coding, audiovisual performance, occasional facilitation of other people's work, tool building and similar topics; this was followed by a general discussion, which considered connections (and differences) between other examples of practice discussed in this seminar series.

The slides for Nick's talk can be found here.