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With his work as Scanner, Robin Rimbaud implicates himself in processes of surveillance, engendering access to both technology and language and the power games of voyeurism. Scanner is an assembler of the electronic past in our digital future, whose scavenging of the electronic communications highways provides the raw materials for his aural collages of electronic music and 'found' conversations. Musician, writer, curator, media critic and minimalist anti hero he is constantly at work on a variety of projects positioning him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Controversial early work utilised scanned mobile phone conversations which he wove into his soundscapes, focusing on issues of privacy and the dichotomy between the public and the private spectrum. In 1996 he made a lecture/performance tour of Australia at the invitation of ANAT (Australian Network for Art & Technology). 1997 took him all around Europe and the USA, composing the soundtrack to the Delta ballet at the Paris Opera House, touring the USA with DJ Spooky, performing with 100 violinists alongside Laurie Anderson, and closing with a South Bank Show profile on his work on British television. 1998 brought sound work on Bryan Ferry's new album, a Fellowship in Sound at John Moore's University in Liverpool, collaborations with visual artist Mike Kelly and composer Charlemagne Palestine and a form of urban phonogeography around London entitled 'Surface Noise' with multi media producers Artangel. In 1999 he soundtracked BBC radio productions of 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' and Sylvia Plath's 'Three Women,' collaborated with Michael Nyman and received The Imaginaria '99 award for Digital Art with accompanying show at the ICA in London and Third Prize in the Prix Marulic radio competition in Croatia for his sound design on Jean Cocteau's 'The Human Voice' for the BBC. A unique live show in 16 countries simultaneously in one night closed the century with the assistance of 16 Scanner lookalikes. Working most recently with graphics artist Tonne he is working on an on-going series of site specific shows around the globe entitled Sound Polaroids. Translating image to sound and back again the work encourages the collapse of legibility into texture, the distillation of sound into acoustic disturbance, amplifying the wow and flutter of the city soundscape. Januari 22, 2001 a new alias of Robin will surface: Scannerfunk, whose album Wave of Light by Wave of Light will be released by Boudisque Recording. Throughout the Scannerfunk project Robin's electronic and usually abstract music is supplemented with an up to date dance drive; giving it an energetic ,hypnotising and sometimes even catchy twist. The first 12" single, Spinique, is complemented with a nice little cartoon video, made by D-Fuse. Remixes by Michael Wells (GTO / Technohead) and Simon Fisher Turner are on the b-side. More SCANNER at: |