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Robin Rimbaud Born 1964 In Southfields London 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 Githead With Wire's Colin Newman And Malka Spigel And Max Franken From Minimal Compact. Rimbaud Is Also A Writer Media Critic Multi-Media Artist And Record Producer. He Borrowed His Stage Name From The Device He Used In His Early Recordings Picking Up Indeterminate Radio Signals In The Airwaves And Using Them As An Instrument In His Compositions. Growing Up Scanner Was Interested In Avant Garde Literature Cinema And Music Attended Kingston University In Surrey Earning A Degree In Modern Arts BA . He Created Music As Dau Al Set And The Rimbaud Brothers Releasing Cassette Editions In The Early 1980s. 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. 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 Record Label. He Continued To Produce The First Dozen Releases With Mike Harding Of Touch Including Scanner 2 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. Dateline 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’ . 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 Club At London’s ICA Where These Monthly Sessions Presented Nights Of Music In A Social Environment. Nights Included Exclusive Presentations With Warp Records Irdial Ninja Tune Touch Mego Leaf And Many Others. 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 With Artangel 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 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 Germany In Collaboration With Austrian Artist Katarina Matiasek. In 1998 He Became ‘Professor Scanner’ At John Moore’s University In Liverpool. He Is A Contributing Editor Of Kultureflash.Net A London Centric E-Zine Which Goes Out Weekly Via HTML Email To 27 000 Subscribers. More About Robin Rimbaud Http //en.Wikipedia.Org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud read less