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Scott Collins dislikes writing bios, talking about himself and writing in the 3rd person- but recognizes a necessary evil when he sees one.

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Having received his undergraduate degree in composition from the Berklee College of Music and a graduate degree in guitar performance from CalArts, Scott Collins is a guitarist who performs a wide range of improvised western and non-western music on fretted and fretless instruments, he is a featured baglama (Turkish lute) performer on the Sony Playstation, God of War 2 video game and a soloist on the track “Come Alive” from the RedLynx Trials Evolution game.

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In addition to numerous live performances, he has toured in both the U.S. and Germany, performed in the world premier of composer Glenn Branca’s “Hallucination City”, the U.S. premier of Composer Tim Brady’s, “Twenty Quarter Inch Jacks” and co-composed and performed the thematically improvised score for the About Productions stage adaptation of Norman Klein’s “Bleeding Through” with Vinny Golia.

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Scott is committed to an art of real time composition he calls GuitArchitecture.  When not performing improvised loop based solo guitar performances, he can also be found collaborating with several projects including Duodenum, an improvising duo with Carmina Escobar that specializes in silent film accompaniment, OniBaba (with Daren Burns, Vinny Golia, George McMullin, Craig Bunch and visualist Kio Griffith), Rough Hewn Trio (with Warr Guitarist Chris Lavender and Craig Bunch) and Dumb and Drummer a guitar-drum duo with an ever changing line-up…

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Other highlights include performances with John French (“Drumbo” of Captain Beefheart), Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, Mia Mikela (Solu), (Butoh dancer) Don McLeod, Butch Morris, Sahba Motallebi, Ulrich Krieger, Susie Allen, Mike Reagan, Melissa Kaplan (Universal Hall Pass), Jeff Kaiser, The Bentmen, One of Us, Annette Farrington, Tubtime, Sleep Chamber and many more.

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He has performed and co-lead workshops on improvisation as part of the Imagniary Borders/Imaginarias Fronteras project at the Centro Nacional de las Artes in Mexicali, Mexico and performed/lead a workshop on “Structured Improvisation in Film Accompaniment” as part of the Cha’ak’ab Paaxil Festival at the Edificio de Artes Visuales – Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatán in Mérida, Mexico.

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An active guitar teacher and performance coach, Scott is the author of Symmetrical Twelve-Tone Patterns for Improvisation and The GuitArchitect’s Guide: series which includes:

• The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Melodic Patterns

• The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Modes: Harmonic Combinatorics

• The GuitArchitect’s Positional Exploration and 

• The GuitArchitect’s Guide to Chord Scales

and is currently working on additional books in the  pedagogical/reference GuitArchitecture series to be released over 2012-2013.

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Scott is endorsed by FnH Guitars.  He uses D’Addario strings, Planet Waves accessories, Scuffham Amps and Line 6 gear.

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In addition to his posts on GuitArchitecture, he had a lesson in the 2010 Holiday issue of Guitar Player Magazine, and has also had articles posted on Guitar Salon International,  Live4Guitar and has a regular interview series on Guitar-Muse.com.

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(I should also mention that there are a lot of Scott Collins’ on the internet.  Most of the more prominent ones with Mp3s found with a “Scott Collins Guitar” google search may not be me.  Just sayin’….)