Scanner http://virb.com/scanner “He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music...he has a good sense of atmosphere.”
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways . From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Steve McQueen,Derek Jarman, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon.
Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music. In 2004 his Sound Surface work was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission and in 2006 he produced Night Haunts for Artangel. whilst sound-designing a new car horn for the USA. He has performe and created works in many of the world's most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

]]> Virb 2.0 (@scanner) en Moskau Disko http://virb.com/scanner/audio/61855 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:37:12 -0700 http://virb.com/scanner/audio/61855 Bringing Back A Past http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55193 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:26:23 -0700 http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55193 Becoming Someone Else http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55190 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:23:00 -0700 http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55190 Rolf Fonky Mix http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55184 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:13:03 -0700 http://virb.com/scanner/audio/55184 moskau_disko_320240.mov http://virb.com/scanner/videos/1734721 Following the success of his Teenage Wochen 12" vinyl release in 2006, Scanner follows up his slippery electro trip with Moskau Disko, the warped daughter of a night spent in a digital orgy of Wagnerian creative excess on German label Binemusic, home to modest musical surprises. (www.binemusisc.com)

Directed by British filmmaker Sophie Clements, the video uses a startling 4500 still photographs to create the movement and motion in the video. No moving parts!

Terrorized vocals open the acid slip-disc party atmosphere, Kraftwerk seduce the Aphex Twin in the kitchen, and James Holden takes photographs of Paris Hilton washing up the beats, and publishes them on myspace.

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Photography by Marta Szlefarska

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Live at Transmediale Berlin Germany

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Scanner on board ocean liner from Helsinki to Latvia

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Scanner photographed by Chris George

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