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Группа Scanner была образована в 1986 году двумя гитаристами - Акселем Юлиусом и Томасом Софой, а также басистом Мартином Борком из группы Lions Breed, существовавшей в период с 1982 по 1986 года и выпустившей одно демо в 1983 и один студийный альбом в 1985 году.
Вышедший в 1988 году дебютный студийный альбом Hypertrace , а затем и второй Terminal Earth годом позже, были выдержаны в мистическом духе - тексты песен были на такие не вполне привычные для метал-сцены того времени темы, как научная фантастика, технократия, НЛО и, вообще, на космическую тему. Также, в записи песни Locked Out принял участие приглашенный как гость Ralf Scheepers, позднее участник групп Gamma Ray, Primal Fear и многих других.
Музыкальная концепция альбома являла собой heavy metal, тесно граничащий со speed metal и power metal - особенно ярко это выражается в резких сменах барабанных и гитарных партий, неожиданных гитарных соло, а также и в вокальной линии, выдержанной в стиле вокалистов power metal. Такие резкие смены темпа наиболее проявляются во 2-м альбоме.
В результате, Hypertrace получил широкую известность и оглушительный успех у слушателей, и до сих пор высоко оценивается как музыкальными критиками, так и фанатами метала и любителями темы таинственного и неизведанного космического пространства.
Композиция Across The Universe с альбома Hypertrace вместе с песней Round Trip группы Rage вошла в сплит-альбом, вышедший в 1988 году.
Альбом Terminal Earth записывался уже без участия Михаэля Кноблиха - замену Кноблиху нашли в лице американского вокалиста под псевдонимом S.L.Coe (настоящее имя - Шелко Топалович). Стиль пения и тембр голоса Топаловича был довольно близок к вокальным данным Kai Hansen.
После выхода Terminal Earth группа некоторое время находилась в периоде "творческого застоя", и лишь в 1994 году выпустила трёхпесенное демо, все композиции с которого войдут в трек-лист будущего альбома в несколько видоизменненых вариантах.
В 1994-м в группу пришел новый участник - польский вокалист Херидон Ли (настоящее имя - Лежек Жпигль) который пробыл в коллективе последующие 3 года и записал 2 не самых удачных студийных альбома - Mental Reservation в 1995-ом и Ball of the Damned в 1996 году. Последний альбом содержал еще и кавер-версию Innuendo культовой британской группы Queen.
В записи альбома Mental Reservation был задействован известный немецкий басист Дарио Тробок, взявший псевдоним "Джон Смит", и позднее участник таких групп, как At Vance, Gallows Pole и своего сольного проекта.
Год спустя, в 1996-ом, коллектив пополняется клавишником Стефаном Брауном и американским басистом Марком Саймоном, а также вторым гитаристом Стефаном Николой. В данном составе из 6 человек, группа записывает 4-й студийный альбом под названием Ball of the Damned. В качестве гостя снова был приглашен Ralf Scheepers, к тому времени уже достигший значительной популярности в группе Gamma Ray, а также, и из-за неудачной попытки попасть на место вокалиста Judas Priest.
Период записи пятого студийного альбома под названием Scantropolis (2002) ознаменовался очередной сменой вокалиста - на этот раз им стала певица Лиза Крофт. Изначально, вместо Лизы планировалось использовать голос Крис Шмитт, концертной бек-вокалистки группы, с ёё участием было записано демо, которое получило одобрение от лейбла, однако она не согласилась быть ведущей вокалисткой, ссылаясь на собственные страхи и ответственность. В итоге, после продолжительных поисков, в группу была принята Лиза Крофт, которая однако, "не была и вполовину так хороша, как Крис (Шмитт)". Записанный с ней Scantropolis имел в результате довольно негативные отклики среди поклонников группы. От первоначального состава коллектива к тому времени остался лишь один Аксель. Для записи басовых партий снова был приглашен басист Марк Саймон, который также выступил и как звукоинженер при записи этого альбома.
В 2004 году, в коллектив была принята японская бас-гитаристка Каюри Нива, до того игравшая в малоизвестной немецкой хэви-метал-группе Requiem, также из Гельзенкирхена. Она пробыла в Scanner до 2006 года и участвовала в концертной деятельности группы. На данный момент является участником немецкой thrash metal группы Adligate.
Новый, шестой студийный альбом под названием The Judgement вышел 23 января 2015 года. Он стал первым релизом группы после почти 13-летнего перерыва и живых выступлений, и первым с немецким вокалистом греческого происхождения Эфтхимиосом Иоаннидисом, являющимся постоянным участником группы с 2003 года. Известно, что над обложкой альбома работал греческий художник Анестис Годас, известный по сотрудничеству с такими коллективами как Falloch, а также с многими греческими метал-группами. Мастеринг альбома производился в Финляндии. 17 февраля состоялся официальный релиз этого альбома в США. Также, 20 февраля в продажу поступил первый официальный DVD группы с клипом на песню The Judgement. Выпуск - ограниченное издание в 200 копий.
Также, в 2015 году группой намечена серия концертных выступлений в различных местах Европы: Мадриде (Испания) и Диттигхейме (Германия). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
Вышедший в 1988 году дебютный студийный альбом Hypertrace , а затем и второй Terminal Earth годом позже, были выдержаны в мистическом духе - тексты песен были на такие не вполне привычные для метал-сцены того времени темы, как научная фантастика, технократия, НЛО и, вообще, на космическую тему. Также, в записи песни Locked Out принял участие приглашенный как гость Ralf Scheepers, позднее участник групп Gamma Ray, Primal Fear и многих других.
Музыкальная концепция альбома являла собой heavy metal, тесно граничащий со speed metal и power metal - особенно ярко это выражается в резких сменах барабанных и гитарных партий, неожиданных гитарных соло, а также и в вокальной линии, выдержанной в стиле вокалистов power metal. Такие резкие смены темпа наиболее проявляются во 2-м альбоме.
В результате, Hypertrace получил широкую известность и оглушительный успех у слушателей, и до сих пор высоко оценивается как музыкальными критиками, так и фанатами метала и любителями темы таинственного и неизведанного космического пространства.
Композиция Across The Universe с альбома Hypertrace вместе с песней Round Trip группы Rage вошла в сплит-альбом, вышедший в 1988 году.
Альбом Terminal Earth записывался уже без участия Михаэля Кноблиха - замену Кноблиху нашли в лице американского вокалиста под псевдонимом S.L.Coe (настоящее имя - Шелко Топалович). Стиль пения и тембр голоса Топаловича был довольно близок к вокальным данным Kai Hansen.
После выхода Terminal Earth группа некоторое время находилась в периоде "творческого застоя", и лишь в 1994 году выпустила трёхпесенное демо, все композиции с которого войдут в трек-лист будущего альбома в несколько видоизменненых вариантах.
В 1994-м в группу пришел новый участник - польский вокалист Херидон Ли (настоящее имя - Лежек Жпигль) который пробыл в коллективе последующие 3 года и записал 2 не самых удачных студийных альбома - Mental Reservation в 1995-ом и Ball of the Damned в 1996 году. Последний альбом содержал еще и кавер-версию Innuendo культовой британской группы Queen.
В записи альбома Mental Reservation был задействован известный немецкий басист Дарио Тробок, взявший псевдоним "Джон Смит", и позднее участник таких групп, как At Vance, Gallows Pole и своего сольного проекта.
Год спустя, в 1996-ом, коллектив пополняется клавишником Стефаном Брауном и американским басистом Марком Саймоном, а также вторым гитаристом Стефаном Николой. В данном составе из 6 человек, группа записывает 4-й студийный альбом под названием Ball of the Damned. В качестве гостя снова был приглашен Ralf Scheepers, к тому времени уже достигший значительной популярности в группе Gamma Ray, а также, и из-за неудачной попытки попасть на место вокалиста Judas Priest.
Период записи пятого студийного альбома под названием Scantropolis (2002) ознаменовался очередной сменой вокалиста - на этот раз им стала певица Лиза Крофт. Изначально, вместо Лизы планировалось использовать голос Крис Шмитт, концертной бек-вокалистки группы, с ёё участием было записано демо, которое получило одобрение от лейбла, однако она не согласилась быть ведущей вокалисткой, ссылаясь на собственные страхи и ответственность. В итоге, после продолжительных поисков, в группу была принята Лиза Крофт, которая однако, "не была и вполовину так хороша, как Крис (Шмитт)". Записанный с ней Scantropolis имел в результате довольно негативные отклики среди поклонников группы. От первоначального состава коллектива к тому времени остался лишь один Аксель. Для записи басовых партий снова был приглашен басист Марк Саймон, который также выступил и как звукоинженер при записи этого альбома.
В 2004 году, в коллектив была принята японская бас-гитаристка Каюри Нива, до того игравшая в малоизвестной немецкой хэви-метал-группе Requiem, также из Гельзенкирхена. Она пробыла в Scanner до 2006 года и участвовала в концертной деятельности группы. На данный момент является участником немецкой thrash metal группы Adligate.
Новый, шестой студийный альбом под названием The Judgement вышел 23 января 2015 года. Он стал первым релизом группы после почти 13-летнего перерыва и живых выступлений, и первым с немецким вокалистом греческого происхождения Эфтхимиосом Иоаннидисом, являющимся постоянным участником группы с 2003 года. Известно, что над обложкой альбома работал греческий художник Анестис Годас, известный по сотрудничеству с такими коллективами как Falloch, а также с многими греческими метал-группами. Мастеринг альбома производился в Финляндии. 17 февраля состоялся официальный релиз этого альбома в США. Также, 20 февраля в продажу поступил первый официальный DVD группы с клипом на песню The Judgement. Выпуск - ограниченное издание в 200 копий.
Также, в 2015 году группой намечена серия концертных выступлений в различных местах Европы: Мадриде (Испания) и Диттигхейме (Германия). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
There are multiple artists named Scanner:
1) SCANNER = Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen / Germany
2) Scanner = multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London / UK
SCANNER (power metal band) have been using the name since 1986 and first released their album HYPERTRACE under that name in 1988. Robin Rimbaud first released an album using the name Scanner in 1992.
1)
SCANNER - Power Metal from Germany
OFFICIAL BANDPAGE: www.scanner4u.de
OFFICIAL FACEBOOK-FANPAGE: https://www.facebook.com/Scanner.Heavy.Metal.Band
Biography
Previously known as LIONS BREED ( a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed the vocalists and the drummer and became SCANNER in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.
SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "HYPERTRACE", was produced by ELOY vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (today Primal Fear). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.
In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-ANGEL DUST front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.
Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.
1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.
SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".
At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.
In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in January 2015 (Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015, MASSACRE RECORDS).
Members Line-up
Efthimios Ioannidis - Vocals
Axel A.J. Julius - Guitars
Andreas Zeidler - Guitars
Jonathan Sell- Bass
Patrick Klose - Drums
Albums
"HYPERTRACE" (1988 / re-released 2006 and 2013),
"TERMINAL EARTH" (1989 / re-released 2006 and 2013),
"MENTAL RESERVATION" (1995),
"BALL OF THE DAMNED" (1997),
"SCANTROPOLIS" (2002),
"THE JUDGEMENT" (new album, Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015)
NEW ALBUM - Pre Listening: F.T.B. (F*** the Bastards): www.scanner4u.de
(This article about the power metal band is licensed under the "GNU Free Documentation License" and is written by Axel A.J. Julius and Ursula Deja-Schnieder from SCANNER - Power Metal Band!)
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2)
Scanner - multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London / UK
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.scannerdot.com
Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic[citation needed], multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.
Biography
Born in in Southfields, London, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music while growing up. When he was a teenager his family was bereaved when his father was killed in a motorcycle accident.[1] He attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). There, he formed a musical project The Rimbaud Brothers with fellow student Tony Rimbaud, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s, later becoming Dau Al Set with the addition of Chris Staley.
He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival.[2]
In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance.
His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scanner², Mass Observation, Blind, and Runaway Train, a real-time recording of the captivating radio contact between Alfie, controller of the line and Wesley, the driver of a runaway train. Location: New Brunswick, Canada, recorded 9 March 1948.
In 1994, he pioneered one of the first webzines, in the very early days of the internet, I/O/D, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood. In 1998, he presented Surface Noise on a London bus, commissioned by Artangel, and won the Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts, ICA London the following year. He re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence. For 2003, he installed a permanent installation in Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches, France as part of the bereavement suite Channel of Flight.[3] In 2004, Tate Modern commissioned Sound Surface in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello as their first sonic arts work. In the same year, he composed Europa 25, an alternative National Anthem for Europe that was freely distributed via 10,000 CDs and a website.
He has continued to collaborate with classical musicians – Michael Nyman for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Musique Nouvelles in Belgium for their 'Play Along' collaborative string quartet, and opera singer Patricia Rozario for a new untitled work in 2007.
From 1994–2000, he set up and "curated" The Electronic Lounge music club at London's ICA, where these monthly sessions presented nights of music in a social environment. Nights included presentations with the record companies Warp Records, Irdial, Ninja Tune, Touch, Mego, Leaf Records and many others.
Since 2000 he has featured on BBC Radio 4, as a commentator on issues relating to popular music on a number of occasions.
Working with choreographer Wayne McGregor, he created Nemesis for Random Dance in 2002, Detritus for Ballet Rambert in 2003, and Qualia for the Royal Ballet in 2004. He continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007. In 2006 he created the sound for Merce Cunningham's E:vent at London's Barbican theatre.
In 2006, he created Night Haunts, a monthly online artwork, working with writer Sukhdev Sandhu and designers Mind Unit. He sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb. In 2007 he soundtracked British filmmaker Steve McQueen's film installation Gravesend, at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
In 2008 he was President of Honour at the Qwartz Music Awards in Paris, and scored the musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, which was later released on DVD (EMI). He premiered his six-hour performance 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.
In 2009 He showed Atlantida, an HD film installation at the Canary Islands Biennial, created in collaboration with filmmaker Olga Mink. In the summer of 2009 he composed the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, broadcast in 164 countries, and soundtracked the new Samburg Corby telephone campaign in Italy.
In 2005, he was a contributing curator 'J’en rêve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
His BBC radio production of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice won the Prix Marulic Award and recently, he won First Prize Neptun Water Prize for his installation Wishing Well in Austria, in collaboration with Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998, he became 'Professor Scanner' at John Moores University in Liverpool. In 2009 he became Visiting Professor at University College Falmouth UK, and Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing France.
He is a Contributing Editor of kultureflash.net, a London centric e-zine which goes out weekly via HTML email to 27,000+ subscribers.
He has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously).[4]
He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. In 2010 Rimbaud working with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet on Blink of an Eye with a very subtle touch, embedding his sounds into those of the New York jazz ensemble seamlessly as critics observed.[5]
In 2013 Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.
Discography
Albums (as Robin Rimbaud)
Sub Rosa Live Sessions (Sub Rosa, 1996)
The Garden Is Full of Metal (Homage To Derek Jarman) (Sub Rosa, 1997)
Full Discography: http://www.scannerdot.com/
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud)
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1) SCANNER = Power Metal Band from Gelsenkirchen / Germany
2) Scanner = multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London / UK
SCANNER (power metal band) have been using the name since 1986 and first released their album HYPERTRACE under that name in 1988. Robin Rimbaud first released an album using the name Scanner in 1992.
1)
SCANNER - Power Metal from Germany
OFFICIAL BANDPAGE: www.scanner4u.de
OFFICIAL FACEBOOK-FANPAGE: https://www.facebook.com/Scanner.Heavy.Metal.Band
Biography
Previously known as LIONS BREED ( a German Metal act that released the 1985 album on the Earthshaker label entitled "Damn The Night") the group changed the vocalists and the drummer and became SCANNER in 1986, adopting an on stage sci-fi image.
SCANNER appeared in 1987 with the opener track "GALACTOS" on the "DOOMSDAY NEWS" compilation by NOISE RECORDS, Berlin. The group’s debut album, "HYPERTRACE", was produced by ELOY vocalist Frank Bornemann and was released in 1988. Backing vocals for this outing were contributed by Ralph Scheepers (today Primal Fear). The Japanese Release of this album added the exclusive track "Galactos" from the DOOMSDAY NEWS compilation.
In 1991 the second album, "TERMINAL EARTH", had been released the group had parted company with vocalist Michael Knoblich and replaced him with the Yugoslavian born ex-ANGEL DUST front man S.L. Coe. When personality clashes erupted between Coe and his band mates the vocalist was forced out in 1993.
Guitarist and bandleader Axel Julius (also producer aka Nigel Boston) recruited a new line up for SCANNER to release the "MENTAL RESERVATION" album in 1995 for the MASSACRE RECORDS label and JVC Victor Entertainment, Japan. The band comprised Polish vocalist Haridon Lee, bassist John A.B.C. Smith and drummer D.D. Bucco for this album, although Smith was succeeded by Marc Simon shortly after the record was released.
1997’s "BALL OF THE DAMNED" would prove an ambitious affair as the band took on cover version of QUEEN’s epic "Innuendo". Ralph Scheepers, by now in PRIMAL FEAR, also appeared once more lending vocals to "Puppet On A String". Touring to promote the album saw headline European dates with support act UNREST before a further round of shows on a package billing with FATES WARNING and OMEN. In summer ‘97 SCANNER appeared first time at W.O.A., Wacken Open Air, Germany.
SCANNER ‘s 2002 release was brandishing the new studio album "SCANTROPOLIS".
At this stage the new look band comprised female vocalist Lisa Croft, guitarists Axel Julius and Thilo Zaun, bass player Marc Simon, keyboard player Johannes Brunn and drummer Jan Zimmer. The album closes with an unaccredited version of "Till The Ferryman Dies" recorded live in Stockholm.
In 2003 Greek vocalist Efthimios Ioannidis joined the band and is SCANNER’s most constant singer until today’s line-up. SCANNER played a lot of shows whole of Europe in the past years and will come up with their 6th album, "THE JUDGEMENT", in January 2015 (Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015, MASSACRE RECORDS).
Members Line-up
Efthimios Ioannidis - Vocals
Axel A.J. Julius - Guitars
Andreas Zeidler - Guitars
Jonathan Sell- Bass
Patrick Klose - Drums
Albums
"HYPERTRACE" (1988 / re-released 2006 and 2013),
"TERMINAL EARTH" (1989 / re-released 2006 and 2013),
"MENTAL RESERVATION" (1995),
"BALL OF THE DAMNED" (1997),
"SCANTROPOLIS" (2002),
"THE JUDGEMENT" (new album, Release Date: January the 23rd, 2015)
NEW ALBUM - Pre Listening: F.T.B. (F*** the Bastards): www.scanner4u.de
(This article about the power metal band is licensed under the "GNU Free Documentation License" and is written by Axel A.J. Julius and Ursula Deja-Schnieder from SCANNER - Power Metal Band!)
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Scanner - multimedia artist and sound designer Robin Rimbaud from London / UK
OFFICIAL PAGE: www.scannerdot.com
Robin Rimbaud (born in 1964) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
Rimbaud is also a writer and media critic[citation needed], multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio and mobile phone signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions.
Biography
Born in in Southfields, London, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music while growing up. When he was a teenager his family was bereaved when his father was killed in a motorcycle accident.[1] He attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). There, he formed a musical project The Rimbaud Brothers with fellow student Tony Rimbaud, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s, later becoming Dau Al Set with the addition of Chris Staley.
He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival.[2]
In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance.
His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scanner², Mass Observation, Blind, and Runaway Train, a real-time recording of the captivating radio contact between Alfie, controller of the line and Wesley, the driver of a runaway train. Location: New Brunswick, Canada, recorded 9 March 1948.
In 1994, he pioneered one of the first webzines, in the very early days of the internet, I/O/D, in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood. In 1998, he presented Surface Noise on a London bus, commissioned by Artangel, and won the Imaginaria 99 Award for Digital Arts, ICA London the following year. He re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence. For 2003, he installed a permanent installation in Raymond Poincaré hospital in Garches, France as part of the bereavement suite Channel of Flight.[3] In 2004, Tate Modern commissioned Sound Surface in collaboration with Stephen Vitiello as their first sonic arts work. In the same year, he composed Europa 25, an alternative National Anthem for Europe that was freely distributed via 10,000 CDs and a website.
He has continued to collaborate with classical musicians – Michael Nyman for Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, Musique Nouvelles in Belgium for their 'Play Along' collaborative string quartet, and opera singer Patricia Rozario for a new untitled work in 2007.
From 1994–2000, he set up and "curated" The Electronic Lounge music club at London's ICA, where these monthly sessions presented nights of music in a social environment. Nights included presentations with the record companies Warp Records, Irdial, Ninja Tune, Touch, Mego, Leaf Records and many others.
Since 2000 he has featured on BBC Radio 4, as a commentator on issues relating to popular music on a number of occasions.
Working with choreographer Wayne McGregor, he created Nemesis for Random Dance in 2002, Detritus for Ballet Rambert in 2003, and Qualia for the Royal Ballet in 2004. He continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007. In 2006 he created the sound for Merce Cunningham's E:vent at London's Barbican theatre.
In 2006, he created Night Haunts, a monthly online artwork, working with writer Sukhdev Sandhu and designers Mind Unit. He sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb. In 2007 he soundtracked British filmmaker Steve McQueen's film installation Gravesend, at the 52nd Venice Biennial.
In 2008 he was President of Honour at the Qwartz Music Awards in Paris, and scored the musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba in Paris, which was later released on DVD (EMI). He premiered his six-hour performance 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.
In 2009 He showed Atlantida, an HD film installation at the Canary Islands Biennial, created in collaboration with filmmaker Olga Mink. In the summer of 2009 he composed the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, broadcast in 164 countries, and soundtracked the new Samburg Corby telephone campaign in Italy.
In 2005, he was a contributing curator 'J’en rêve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
His BBC radio production of Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice won the Prix Marulic Award and recently, he won First Prize Neptun Water Prize for his installation Wishing Well in Austria, in collaboration with Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998, he became 'Professor Scanner' at John Moores University in Liverpool. In 2009 he became Visiting Professor at University College Falmouth UK, and Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tourcoing France.
He is a Contributing Editor of kultureflash.net, a London centric e-zine which goes out weekly via HTML email to 27,000+ subscribers.
He has collaborated with Harald Bode (posthumously).[4]
He recently contributed a chapter to Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture (The MIT Press, 2008) edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky. In 2010 Rimbaud working with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet on Blink of an Eye with a very subtle touch, embedding his sounds into those of the New York jazz ensemble seamlessly as critics observed.[5]
In 2013 Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.
Discography
Albums (as Robin Rimbaud)
Sub Rosa Live Sessions (Sub Rosa, 1996)
The Garden Is Full of Metal (Homage To Derek Jarman) (Sub Rosa, 1997)
Full Discography: http://www.scannerdot.com/
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud)
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