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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, 

Derek Jarman, Steve McQueen, 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.

2007 began with a new commission for choreographer Shobana

Jeyasingh’s Faultline and sound design for new British horror film

‘Reverb.’ His collaboration with filmmaker Steve McQueen,

 Gravesend,

was premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennial. He recently scored the hit

musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba with Wayne McGregor in Lyon and

Paris, and is designing sound environments for the Coney Island

Aquarium in New York. His avant pop band Githead continues to tour

and record globally.

He has performed 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 & Tate Britain London and the Royal Opera House London.

His work has been presented throughout the United States, South

America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

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“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 - BBC

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. A true renaissance artist of digital pop culture, from his

earliest 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.

   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. He has performed and created works in

many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA,

Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Tate Modern & Tate

Britain London, Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille, Kunsthalle Vienna,

Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Hanoi Opera House Vietnam and the Royal Opera

House London.

Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and

has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: Bryan

Ferry, Laurie Anderson, Carsten Nicolai, Radiohead, The Royal Ballet,

Random Dance, Neville Brody, Hussein Chalayan, Shelley Fox, Douglas

Gordon, Brian Eno, Michael Nyman, Luc Ferrari, Mike Kelley, Orlan,

Mike Hodges, Derek Jarman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lorraine Hunt and

Peter Sellars, amongst others.

His works continually seek to break new ground: in 1994 he pioneered

one of the first experimental ezines, I/O/D, in 1998 he performed

Surface Noise on a London Bus around the city, in 2000 he performed

over 20 KM of beach in Italy on the public speaker system, re-

soundtracked Jean Luc Godard’s seminal film Alphaville, and

infamously played 16 concerts in just one evening with a series of

look-alikes across the globe. In 2003 he became the first electronic

artist to ever perform in Vietnam, and in 2004 his Sound Surface work

was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission. From 1994-2000

he curated the pioneering Electronic Lounge club at London’s ICA

presenting new electronic music and media monthly.

In 2005 he composed Europa 25, a newly commissioned National Anthem

for Europe, soundtracks for The Royal Ballet’s Qualia and E:vent with

legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham, and Flower Echoes work to

open the Guangzhou Triennial in China. In 2006 he presented Night

Haunts and NightJam with Artangel, produced a four-hour performance

across the mountains of North Wales, and designed a new car horn for

the US.

2007 began with a new commission for choreographer Shobana

Jeyasingh’s Faultline and sound design for new British horror film

‘Reverb.’ His collaboration with film-maker Steve McQueen,

 Gravesend,

was premiered at the 52nd Venice Biennial. He recently scored the hit

musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba with Wayne McGregor in Lyon and

Paris, and is designing sound environments for the Coney Island

Aquarium in New York. His avant pop band Githead continues to tour

and record globally.