Artist: Scanner
Genre(s):
Soundtrack
Ambient
Metal: Heavy
Electronic
Metal: Power
Soundtrack
Ambient
Metal: Heavy
Electronic
Metal: Power
Discography:
Reason By Heart, Sleep By Twilight
Year: 2005
Tracks: 3
Messe: Macht Ges Klangs/Klang Der Macht
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Scantropolis
Year: 2002
Tracks: 10
Lauwarm Instrumentals
Year: 1999
Tracks: 6
Ball Of The Damned
Year: 1997
Tracks: 9
Mental Reservation
Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Accretions: Mort Aux Vaches
Year: 1996
Tracks: 5
Scanner (Ash 1.1)
Year: 1993
Tracks: 1
Terminal Earth
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Hypertrace
Year: 1988
Tracks: 9
Battersea-based ambient composer Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, takes his curious nom de guerre from his compositional tool of choice; the cellphone image scanner. Although only recording and cathartic music since the early '90s, Rimbaud has already earned a report as a boundary push experimentalist, wedding ceremony scanned vocal samples with sparse electronics and other textural elements that underline the grade of straining and isolation oft associated with new telecommunications engineering. Though operative more and more toward other, more than than melodic compositional devices, his number 1 several releases went fleshy on the upraised convo, attracting as ofttimes the comment of postgrad pocket theorists interested in the vital implications of Rimbaud's work as the medicinal drug critics. Although admitting to a certain voyeuristical fixation regular in his puerility, Rimbaud's began exploring it through and through medicine only tardy, getting a constabulary digital scanner from the Brixton Hunt and Saboteurs group (a sort of wargames/survivalist collective) at a surprising deduction. He's since recorded a number of albums and completed remixes for Oval, Scorn, and others. Thought non as varied or complex in his coming as some of his peers in the European electronic medicine van, Rimbaud's inquisitory experimentalism and development focus has won him high extolment among the more cerebral of the emusic align, resulting in a move of licenced performance and composition opportunities that develop brought him in tangency with the likes of David Shea, Bill Laswell, Oval's Markus Popp, and Karlheinz Stockhausen (the latter of which Rimbaud counts among his admirers). He likewise worked on the score for the plastic film The Garden Is Full of Metal, around recent film theatre director Derek Jarman. In 2001 Scanner returned with the album Wave of Light by Wave of Light, using the refer Scannerfunk.
