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Out of 2 votes - Similar Artists: Pan Sonic, Muslimgauze, Rapoon, Scorn, Oval, Metamatics, Carsten Nicolai
Out of 2 votes
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Genre: Electronic & Dance » Electronica
Editor's review
It's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction to reach to tune your music player of choice when you first hear Scanner, a British composer who uses-- how'd you guess?--a scanner to create his stark ambient opuses. Robin Rimbaud sees no limitations with sound and all is fair game, often a hit-or-miss trait with electronic producers, but he pulls it off so that his tracks sound like "a cappella" Unkle covers.
Biography
Scanner - British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud - explores an eclectic mix of activities that place him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Winning admiration from Bjork and Stockhausen, Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with musicians Bryan Ferry and Laurie Anderson, writers David Toop and Simon Armitage, the artist Mike Kelley, among many others.
His live performances constantly seek to break new ground: in 1999 he performed "Surface Noise" on a London Bus around the city, in 2000 he performed over 20 KM of beach in Italy using the public phono system, re-soundtracked Godard's seminal film Alphaville, and most memorably played 16 concerts in just one evening with a series of lookalikes across the globe.
Among his recently completed works are Respire, an installation in a Belgium canal, soundtracks for Rambert Dance Company's Detritus and Random Dance Company's Nemesis, an on-going collaboration with Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino and graphics artists Dfuse, and CD releases of 52 Spaces commissioned by the British School at Rome and Sound Polaroids which won The Imaginaria '99 award for Digital Art at the ICA in 1999.
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