NEW & UPCOMING

  • Basking in the glow of the reception of my undergraduate Lucier notebooks, preparing for the Lucier retirement symposium at Wesleyan in November, or just wallowing in this fit of nostalgia, I've taken the dubious step of scanning and uploading my BA and MA theses. If that's too embarrassing, you can find a selection of my prose scores from this period here. One kid's distillation of the wine of 70s experimentalism -- student work, to be sure, but not without some value as a window on that heady time.

  • Here is my keynote talk from the NIME conference in Sydney in June 2010, as recorded and produced by Cathy Peters at the Australian Broadcast Corporation. You can't see my cute visuals, but I offer well over 1000 words in their stead.

  • ¿Entiendes español? Aquí está un buen podcast por JM Costa de hacking and bending (la piratería y la flexión!)

  • June 9, 2011. My son Tantum Stuart Collins -- known to friends and family as Ted - was born in NYC at 1pm on June 9th 1990. Starting soon after his birth I recorded him almost daily on my trusty Sony D6. My intention was to document the evolution of his speech as a sequence of tracks on a CD. Sadly, the practical details of fatherhood pushed the editing and compilation to the back of the closet, and then into a series of cardboard boxes as I schlepped my growing family around the world. But procrastination was offset by the increasing affordability and efficiency of digital editing, and the curves crossed just in time to prepare a gift for his 21st birthday. In the age of file sharing a CD now seems almost as quaint as a 78, so this url should do nicely. Happy Birthday Ted!

  • On the occasion of Alvin Lucier's combined 80th birthday and retirement party I decided to give him the notebook I kept when I took his legendary "Introduction to Electronic Music" class at Wesleyan University my freshman year (1972-73). Here is a scan of the notebook and some related documents.

  • In March I recorded a little interview on the 20th Anniversary of Leonardo Music Journal. You can find it here.