1. Robin Rimbaud was born on 6 May 1964 and is a British electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance.
15 Facts About Robin Rimbaud
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Robin Rimbaud is a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
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Robin Rimbaud 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.
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Robin Rimbaud was trained in piano from a young age and was exposed to the works of John Cage by his piano teacher at the age of 11.
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Robin Rimbaud released the Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept.
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Robin Rimbaud re-soundtracked Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville movie in a series of performances around the world, whilst playfully presenting 16 concerts in one evening in August 1999 using a series of Scanner look-alikes to perform in his absence.
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Robin Rimbaud continues to work with dance, with new works for Shobana Jeyasingh and Siobhan Davies in 2007.
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Robin Rimbaud sound-designed Aitan Errusi's new British horror film Reverb.
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Robin Rimbaud 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.
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In 2005, Robin Rimbaud was a contributing curator 'J'en reve' at Fondation Cartier Paris, and in 2006, jointly curated the video art exhibition 'Mobile' at Espace Landowski Paris.
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In 2010 Robin 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.
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In 2013, Robin Rimbaud dueted with Alexandra Strunin on the song "Robot" from her EP called Stranger released on 29 October 2013.
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In 2015, Robin Rimbaud collaborated with textile designer Ismini Samanidou on the "Weave Waves" project for the Sound Matters exhibition produced by the UK Crafts Council with David Toop.
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In 2023, Robin Rimbaud remixed Kenneth James Gibson's track Small Triumphs And Deep Disappointments for the remix album Further Translations on Gibson's label Meadows Heavy Recorders.
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In December 2019, along with 42 other leading cultural figures, Robin Rimbaud signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election.