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Robin Rimbaud

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, fashion designers Hussein Chalayan and Shelley Fox, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Steve McQueen, Mike Kelley, 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 with Stephen Vitiello was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission. In 2006 he presented Night Haunts with Artangel, produced a four-hour performance across the mountains of North Wales, and designed a new car horn for the US. In 2007 he sound-designed new British horror movie Reverb, installed a permanent artwork for the Northern Neuro Disability Services Centre in Newcastle UK, and collaborated with film-maker Steve McQueen for his film Gravesend at the 52nd Venice Biennial. In 2008 he scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, premiered his six-hour show Of Air and Eye at the Royal Opera House London in late 2008, and sound-designed the new Philips Wake-Up Light with Philips Electronics in NL, a lamp to wake you up with natural light and sound.

Album

Blink Of An Eye

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2010
Track listing: Shadow Splice; Blues In C; A Galaxy Of Winking Dots; Not A Frame Earlier Or Later; Involuntary Reflex; Most With the Least; Dreaming Of You At My Side; The Decisive Moment; Cuts And Shadows; Beyond The Edge Of The Frame.

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The Decisive Moment

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Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2010
Duration: 5:00

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News: Recording

Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet "Blink of an Eye" Available Now on Thirsty Ear Recordings

The blending of jazz and electronics has been one of the more difficult musical challenges, as it attempts to humanize the machine or mechanize the free spirit of improvisation. It's a very tricky balance to get right, as they can be on a collision course with each other. British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain ...

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Article: Album Review

Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink of An Eye

Read "Blink of An Eye" reviewed by Lyn Horton


From the very first sounds heard on Blink of An Eye's “Shadow Splice," a ground is gradually established with bass piano chords, a minor-key string bass arco line, a floating vibe resonance and steady pulse rising from the cymbals. As the Ellingtonian “Blues In C" evokes, the source of improvisational music is the ...

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Article: Album Review

Scanner with the Post Modern Jazz Quartet: Blink Of An Eye

Read "Blink Of An Eye" reviewed by Mark Corroto


If the early works of Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) can be described as voyeuristic, then Blink Of An Eye might just be Frotteurism, the act of touching others, usually in crowds, without their ever knowing. On Blink of an Eye he alters, accents and manipulates a jazz quartet's sound, often without it being obvious.Scanner ...


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