Nicolas Collins (born March 26, 1954 in New York City) is an composer of mostly electronic music and former student of Alvin Lucier.

He often uses home-made electronics and found sound such as skipping CD players or radio broadcast and is currently Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Music Journal.

He is a member of The Impossible Music Group with David Weinstein, David Shea, Ted Greenwald, and Tim Spelios.

Discography

• Sound Without Picture with Ben Neill and Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.

External link

• Interview (http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/intervs/collins.html) February 1995 by and copyright © Brian Duguid
• Leonardo Online (http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/lmj/collins.html)
• CDeMusic: Nicolas Collins (http://www.cdemusic.org/artists/collins.html)
• NewMusicBox asks Nicolas Collins: How do composers use the web as a creative medium for music? (http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=42hf01)