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.Chapters00:00 - Introduction00:32 - Personal History and storing memories01:28 - Tape recorders capturing birthdays and school trips02:59 - Ambient football on cassette03:46 - Discovering John Cage04:31 - Scores of Stockhausen05:18 - Live music05:52 - David Tudor07:39 - Modular Synth discovery09:23 - In the Studio playtime, Modular Synths, Gesture Arcade11:24 - Lorre-Mill Keyed Mosstone, Ciat-Lonbarde Cocoquantus 211:53 - Lorre-Mill Double Knot, Eventide H913:16 - Macumbista Benjolin17:38 - Morphagene17:57 - Musique Concrète20:41 - Teac Reel-to-Reel21:16 - Tape Loops22:30 - Dinner for Two24:59 - Avoiding the screen25:16 - Going in a loop26:04 - How nothing has changedRobin Rimbaud BiogScanner (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.comHis latest album, An Ascent, was recently released on the DiN Records label - https://din.org.uk/album/an-ascent-din63Where To Get The KitGesture ArcadeLorre-Mill Keyed MosstoneCiat-Lonbarde CocoquantusLorre-Mill Double KnotMacumbista BenjolinMorphageneCatch more shows on our other podcast channels: https://www.soundonsound.com/sos-podcasts