World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 25th Anniversary

The Global Composition 2018 conference featured a series of workshops and open discussions with participants on media culture the future of acoustic ecology. The proceedings were recorded and now you may watch them on The Global Composition website.  2018 marks the 25th Anniversary of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), founded in August 1993… Continue reading World Forum for Acoustic Ecology 25th Anniversary

New article published in Leonardo Music Journal 23

Leonardo Music Journal 23 has published “Instruments of Tension: Gramophones, Springs and the Performance of Place,” an article co-authored with Jay Needham. In it, we describe the process and metaphors of our 2012 performance of “Chronography:animal.” This work is based on Jay’s 2009 field recordings from Antarctica and Herbert Ponting’s 1911 photograph of Chris the… Continue reading New article published in Leonardo Music Journal 23

World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Quarterly News

This week I finished my President’s Report for the year-end issue of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Quarterly News. Please visit to learn what this diverse community and field of artistic, scientific, and educational activity is about. This issue includes “Misconceptions of a Silent North”, a feature article by Carmen Braden and a… Continue reading World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) Quarterly News

Alt_tech: CEC—eContact! 12.3 – Instrument – Interface

Handheld Audio Art Devices, article published in June at http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_3/ eContact! is the Canadian Electroacoustic Community’s (CEC) online journal of electroacoustics launched in May 1998 as the successor to its print journal, Contact! …published four times a year in French and English. Guest editors have been invited to coordinate one issue per year. Articles, reviews,… Continue reading Alt_tech: CEC—eContact! 12.3 – Instrument – Interface

Springboard for Hardware Hacking DVD

You can watch it here: http://vimeo.com/10216719 “one of the 87 videos on the accompanying DVD to the second edition of Nicolas Collins’s book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, published by Routledge in 2009. This 1-minute video was shot and edited by Gretchen Hasse from the original Gearwire.com video interviews about the… Continue reading Springboard for Hardware Hacking DVD

Online Report Published in WFAE Newsletter

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology’s WFAE Newsletter published my brief report about Megalópolis sonoras: Identidad cultural y sonidos en peligro de extinción (Sound Megalopolis: Cultural Identity and Sounds in danger of extinction) in the May-June, 2009 issue. This conference was hosted by the Mexican Forum for Acoustic Ecology at Fonoteca Nacional, 23-27 March, 2009 in… Continue reading Online Report Published in WFAE Newsletter

Hardware Hacking book release party & concert at Quimby’s

The 2005 Springboard video interview by Gretchen Hasse, was re-edited to 0ne minute for inclusion on the new DVD accompanying the new, expanded edition of Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, by Nicolas Collins. Nic writes: The new edition of my book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, is… Continue reading Hardware Hacking book release party & concert at Quimby’s