Nick Collins (composer)

{{short description|British academic and computer music composer}}

{{About|the UK computer music composer|the US computer music composer|Nicolas Collins}}

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Nick Collins (born 1975) is a British academic and computer music composer. From 2006–2013 he lived in Brighton, UK, and ran the music informatics degrees at the University of Sussex. In 2013 he became Reader at the University of Durham.

He is an experienced pianist and laptopist, and active in both instrumental and electronic music composition. He has toured extensively with the audiovisual duo 'klipp av' and as a solo musician.

Alex McLean of Slub and Nick Collins are the inventors of the Algorave.{{Cite web | last = Cheshire

|first = Tom

|title = Hacking meets clubbing with the 'algorave'

| publisher = Wired Magazine

| date = 29 August 2013

| url = https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/09/play/algorave

| accessdate = 29 August 2013}}