Robin Rimbaud - Scanner

Life beyond the computer screen.
Robin Rimbaud, AKA Scanner, takes us on an autobiographical sonic journey as he talks about his early fascination with tape recorders, to life beyond the computer screen and his studio filled with modular and table-top synths.

Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
00:32 - Personal History and storing memories

01:28 - Tape recorders capturing birthdays and school trips

02:59 - Ambient football on cassette

03:46 - Discovering John Cage

04:31 - Scores of Stockhausen

05:18 - Live music

05:52 - David Tudor

07:39 - Modular Synth discovery

09:23 - In the Studio playtime, Modular Synths, Gesture Arcade
11:24 - Lorre-Mill Keyed Mosstone, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 2
11:53 - Lorre-Mill Double Knot, Eventide H9
13:16 - Macumbista Benjolin

17:38 - Morphagene
17:57 - Musique Concrète

20:41 - Teac Reel-to-Reel

21:16 - Tape Loops

22:30 - Dinner for Two

24:59 - Avoiding the screen

25:16 - Going in a loop

26:04 - How nothing has changed

Robin Rimbaud Biog
Scanner (British artist Robin Rimbaud) traverses the experimental terrain between sound and space connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, 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. 

To date he has scored 65 dance productions, including the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba Narnia, Qualia for the London Royal Ballet, and the world’s first Virtual Reality ballet, Nightfall, for Dutch National Ballet.

More unusual projects have included designing sound for the Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), the re-opening of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 2012 and the new Cisco telephone system used in many offices around the world. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris whilst Vex, the residential house by Chance de Silva architects, featuring his permanent soundtrack, won the RIBA London Award 2018.

Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Wayne MacGregor, Mike Kelley, Torres, Michael Nyman, Steve McQueen, Laurie Anderson and Hussein Chalayan, amongst many others.

http://www.scannerdot.com

His latest album, An Ascent, was recently released on the DiN Records label - https://din.org.uk/album/an-ascent-din63

Where To Get The Kit
Gesture Arcade
Lorre-Mill Keyed Mosstone
Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus
Lorre-Mill Double Knot
Macumbista Benjolin
Morphagene

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