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Nicholas (Nick) Collins is a composer of instrumental and electronic music, and a lecturer in computer music at the University of Sussex. His research interests run the gamut of topics in music technology, but particular specialisms include algorithmic composition, live electronica, machine listening and interactive music systems. He occasionally tours the world as the non-Swedish half of the Swedish audiovisual laptop duo klipp av.

His background? Born near Oxford, he grew up in Burntwood, Staffordshire, took a first degree in mathematics, a masters in music technology, worked for Sony for a year on film SFX software, then became a research fellow and part-time lecturer in London. Nick escaped to Cambridge to sort out a PhD, where he also learnt the dark art of writing in the third person about himself.

A career interview appeared during my PhD, in Plus magazine

By the way, there are rumours that there is more than one N.Collins. This is healthy and perfectly natural.

Sitting in another composer's chair at the mixing desk set up for the 2007 Stockhausen summer school