Chapter 22: The Missing Switch
2: I am Sitting in a Classroom
3: Worlds of Music
4: Four Ridiculously Large Speakers
Interlude: Multitrack
5: Playing with Chips
6: The Infinite Amplification of Silence (or I Ching for Dummies)
7: Old Guard Avant Garde
8: Newcastle to Narvik
9: The Eden Before Apple
10: A Bright Red Electric Guitar
Interlude: 33 1/3
11: Devil's Music
12: Planes, Trains and Step-Down Transformers
13: A Computer Walks into a Bar
14: We Were All Seated Around the Campfire
Interlude: Soundcheck
15: Still Lives
16: STEIM -- IRCAM with a Human Face
Interlude: Silence
17: Whistling in the Woods
18: Strange Heaven
19: Art School
Interlude: How Things Work
20: Hardware Hacking
21: Salvage
22: The Missing Switch
Interlude: Things I'd Like to Own
23: Surprise Me
Grant Park, Chicago, November 4, 2024. At 10PM the elections was called for Barack Obama. It was three minutes before the public quieted enough for him to speak. One of the most joyous nights of my life. Photo by Nicolas Collins. Nicolas Collins, Pea Soup To Go (2014). Streaming audio web application that shuffles and cross fades forty years of performances of Pea Soup. Click image or HERE to run app (click HERE for archived collection of all recordings). Nicolas Collins, a short tour of the !trumpet (2020). Nicolas Collins, Lucky Dip (2020). JavaScript app that shuffles through a collection of fifty short video clips of solo improvisation on the !trumpet. Birgit Ulher and Nicolas Collins, excerpt from duo improvisation at Stark Bewölkt for Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg, June 4, 2022. An example of the !trumpet as an instrument optimized for improvisation. Nicolas Collins, Roll, Pitch & Yaw (2022). Live performance at daadgelerie, Berlin, November 2022.
Grant Park, Chicago, November 4, 2024. At 10PM the elections was called for Barack Obama. It was three minutes before the public quieted enough for him to speak. One of the most joyous nights of my life. Photo by Nicolas Collins.
Nicolas Collins, Pea Soup To Go (2014). Streaming audio web application that shuffles and cross fades forty years of performances of Pea Soup. Click image or HERE to run app (click HERE for archived collection of all recordings).
Nicolas Collins, a short tour of the !trumpet (2020).
Nicolas Collins, Lucky Dip (2020). JavaScript app that shuffles through a collection of fifty short video clips of solo improvisation on the !trumpet.
Birgit Ulher and Nicolas Collins, excerpt from duo improvisation at Stark Bewölkt for Blurred Edges Festival, Hamburg, June 4, 2022. An example of the !trumpet as an instrument optimized for improvisation.
Nicolas Collins, Roll, Pitch & Yaw (2022). Live performance at daadgelerie, Berlin, November 2022.
