Graham Collins

Graham Collins is a Canadian composer who works on film, live performance and electronic music. He composes for Odessa Filmworks and other Canadian independent film-makers, and also appears as a piano sideman with alt-country performers Slo’ Tom Stewart and Kathleen Edwards.

Music direction and comedy work

He serves as music director at the Ottawa improv club The iNSTiTUTiON. He later takes on a similar role with Radio Vault in Toronto, a sketch comedy troupe centred on radio and its parody.

Experimental and studio projects

Collins also explores an experimental mix of analogue audio and live analogue video, mainly through an artist residency at the Experimental Television Center in Owego, New York. His current projects include an all-analogue-synth hard rock band and a Canadian Moog album of classic hits titled The Electric Beaver.

Teaching and writing

He has taught synthesis and synthesizers at The Audio Recording Academy. He also writes a regular column on synthesis for the Canadian magazine Muzik ETC.

Influences

His listed influences range across film music, classical and experimental composition, jazz, vaudeville and electronic and rock artists, including Thomas Newman, Mychael Danna, Steve Reich, Leonard Bernstein, Stravinsky, Wagner, Keith Jarrett, Thomas Dolby, Brian Eno, David Kristian, Pete Namlook, Nine Inch Nails, Six Finger Satellite, Motörhead, Devo and Goblin.