Semi-Conducting: Rambles Through the Post-Cagean Thicket

Chapter 21: Salvage


1: A Hidden 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

Nicolas Collins, Salvage (Guiyu Blues) (2008). Recorded by Henrik Jonsson at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, April 2015.

Nicolas Collins, The Royal Touch (2014). Recorded by Nicolas Collins at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, April 2015.

Nicolas Collins, In Memoriam Michel Waisvisz (2009). Recorded by Henrik Jonsson at EMS Elektronmusikstudion, Stockholm, April 2015.

Nicolas Collins, Tall Poppies (2009). Single-screen composite of three-channel video and sound installation. Camera: Tommy Hefron. Post-production: Austen Brown.

Nicolas Collins, Sled Dog (2001), seriously hacked CD player. Photo by Simon Lonergan.

Excerpt from live Performance of Sled Dog at the School of Music, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, 2002.

Nicolas Collins, Pea Soup (1974 -- software rev. 5.0, 2020). Screenshot of software version. Download Macintosh version of performance software. Download technical instructions & score.

Nicolas Collins, Devil's Music + 30 (1985, software revision 2015). Screenshot of software version.Download Macintosh version of performance software. Download performance instructions.

Nicolas Collins, Waggle Dance (2007). Recorded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, May 2015. Video by Austin Brown. Download Macintosh version of performance software.

Nicolas Collins, Roomtone Variations (2013). Performed by Fred Frith's Improvisation ensemble at Mills College, Oct. 5, 2013. Download performance guide.