NICOLAS COLLINS

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Nicolas Collins + Oscillatorial Binnage + Paul B. Davis + Resonance
Radio Orchestra

Nicolas Collins makes his first UK concert appearance since 2004's
epic Feedback: Order from Noise tour. He performs three typically
extraordinary works which explore draw on a lifetime of building
radical new electronic instruments. Since 1997 Collins has been
editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999 a
Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. The second edition of his acclaimed book,
Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, was published by Routledge in 2009.
www.nicolascollins.com

Following concerts at Tate Modern, LIFE, Atoms to Patterns, Show Flat
and the First Last LMC Festival, the neo-primitivistic multimedia
electroacoustic quartet Oscillatorial Binnage at last return to Cafe
Oto. Working with experimental interfaces, video projection, acoustic
devices, biofeedback and destabilised equipment responsive to touch,
Oscillatorial Binnage create raucous and compelling compositions based on an exploration of the resonant frequencies of found objects.

Paul B. Davis founded the BEIGE Programming Ensemble with Joe
Beuckman, Cory Arcangel and Joseph Bonn and pioneered the use of
hacked video game cartridges as an art practice. He currently works in
the duo The Potions with DJ LeDeuce (Thrill Jockey), lectures in Fine
Art at Goldsmiths and produces beats for St. Louis rapper Wonton. He
is the only DJ to ever get thrown off stage at the Technics/DMC World
DJ Championships. Tonight he premieres a new solo piece which he
describes as a longish song.

The Resonance Radio Orchestra is a floating pool of musicians, actors
and technicians based around the award-winning radio station
Resonance104.4fm. With an ever-changing, fluid line-up and an
aesthetic informed by the imp of the perverse, the ensemble is
concerned above all with the development of radio art. Tonight the
Orchestra presents a radiophonic sketch based on surreptitious
recordings as part of a commission of Ed Baxter by Dundee's
prestigious Instal festival.