People
Professor Nick Collins
Professor in the Department of Music
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 42875
Room number: 201, Main Building
Contact Professor Nick Collins (email at nick.collins@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
Nick Collins' research interests include live computer music, musical artificial intelligence, and computational musicology, and he is a frequent international performer as composer-programmer-pianist, from algoraves to electronic chamber music. He co-edited the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press 2007) and The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2011), wrote the Introduction to Computer Music (Wiley 2009) and co-wrote Electronic Music (Cambridge University Press Introductions series, 2013). Sometimes, he writes in the third person about himself, but is trying to give it up.
Selected Publications
Journal Article
- Collins, Nick (2016). A funny thing happened on the way to the formula: Algorithmic composition for musical theatre. Computer Music Journal 40(3): 41-57.
- Collins, Nick (2016). Towards Machine Musicians Who Have Listened to More Music Than Us: Audio Database-led Algorithmic Criticism for Automatic Composition and Live Concert Systems. Computers in Entertainment 14(3): 2.
- Collins, Nick (2015). The Ubuweb Electronic Music Corpus: An MIR investigation of a historical database. Organised Sound 20(1): 122-134.
- Collins, Nick (2012). Automatic Composition of Electroacoustic Art Music Utilizing Machine Listening. Computer Music Journal 36(3): 8-23.
- Collins, Nick (2011). Live Coding of Consequence. Leonardo 44(3): 207-211.
