In his first London solo concert in five years Nicolas Collins presents two noisy works for damaged circuits with software extensions. Born and raised in New York City, Nicolas Collins lived in Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1990s before joining the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Professor Collins also makes use of electronic circuitry, conventional acoustic instruments, and hybrid electro-acoustic instruments. He is editor-in-chief of MIT’s Leonardo Music Journal, and his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGB and the Concertgebouw.

http://www.nicolascollins.com

Appearing with Collins for a performance of the classic "Pea Soup" is special guest Peter Cusack. Cusack is a musician and field recordist with a long interest in the sound environment. He initiated the “Favourite Sounds Project” to discover what people find positive about their everyday sound environment and ‘Sounds From Dangerous Places’ (sonic journalism) that investigates sites of major environmental damage. He currently lives in Berlin.

http://sounds-from-dangerous-places.org/

Freakweather is a new ensemble formed by BASCA Composer of the Year 2013 (Sonic Arts), LSO Soundhub associate and artistic director of Resonance104.4fm Ed Baxter. A concept art rock band, its members include guitarists Andrew Ford (Lime Headed Dog, I Ching), Simon King (Homelife, The Windsors) and Peter Lanceley (Kinnie The Explorer), bass player Jim Whelton (Die Trip Computer Die, Amos & Sara), drummer Marcus Sasse and a wide pool of instrumental and vocal collaborators. This inaugural performance draws on Fluxus and Warhol’s Factory as well as using a graphic score drawn on a digital flash unit which - imprinted on the player’s retina - brings notation into the human body for the first time! 

http://wp.me/p1kS9C-8J

Resonance104.4fm/Sound and Music Embedded composer in residence Daniel Wilson presents a diffusion of radionic frequencies as part of Radionics Radio - an investigation into the mysterious pseudo-science of radionics and its relation to electronic sound. Developing the mid-20th century sonic radionic experiments of Delawarr Laboratories, Wilson and Toby Clarkson (of Oscillatorial Binnage) coordinate the realtime audio-visual irradiation of the latest 'thought frequencies' collected over recent months, submitted via the Radionics Radio website (www.radionicsradio.co.uk). As always, audience members are asked to quietly cultivate a psychic resistance to avoid ingress of unwelcome thoughts during these irradiations! Wilson is a sound designer, writer, instrument builder. He works under many aliases including Meadow House, Ashfordaisyak and Post-Electronics. 

http://miraculousagitations.com
http://www.radionicsradio.co.uk