Robin Rimbaud
Robin Rimbaud ( born in 1964 in Southfields, London ) is a British musician, multimedia artist and sound designer who mostly performs under the pseudonym scanner. He runs his own label bed and is also a member of the band Githead, - together with Colin Newman and Malka Spigel of Wire and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
Life and work
Rimbaud was interested in early for avant-garde literature, cinema and music. He studied modern art at Kingston University in Surrey, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. At that time, he teamed up with fellow student Tony Rimbaud Rimbaud the band The Brothers who sold her pieces in the early 1980s by cassette. The band renamed themselves later in Dau Al Set to it came up Chris Staley. 1986 published Rimbaud with Peyrere a cassette compilation, on the Current 93, Coil, Derek Jarman, Nurse with Wound and testing dept. participated. In the same year he released a soundtrack for the short film A Horse with No Name by Phil Viner, the film was shown at the London Festival. In 1989, he provided input on contemporary art, literature, music and dance for James Parks book Cultural Icons.
In 1992, he made his debut under the name of " scanner " with a CD of the same name, at the Ash International, a sublabel of Touch Music, appeared. His stage name refers here to the scanner radio scanner, the commonly used Rimbaud as musical instruments. The debut was followed by twelve other publications, all published by Touch.
1994 Rimbaud installed in collaboration with Matthew Fuller and Graham Harwood, entitled I / O / D an early Webzine, which is still online.
Since 2000, Rimbaud acts on BBC Radio 4 as a commentator on (pop ) cultural topics. From 2002 he worked amplified together with choreographers, so created in 2002 in collaboration me and Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company, the piece nemesis. In 2003 he was detritus for the Rambert Dance Company in 2004 and Qualia for the Royal Ballet. In 2006 he designed the sound for Merce Cunningham E: vent at London's Barbican Theatre. 2007 followed by works for the Shobana Jeyasingh Siobhan Davies Dance Company and the Dance Company.
Together with the author Sukhdev Sandhu and the designer group Mind Unit 2006, he developed the sound design for the online journal Night Haunts, which deals with the London nightlife. In 2007 he designed the sound for the film Gravesend by British artist Steve McQueen, which was shown at the 52nd Venice Biennale.
2008 Rimbaud was honorary president of the Qwartz Electronic Music Awards in Paris.
In 2009 he exhibited together with video artist Olga Mink HD video installation Atlantida on the 2nd Biennial of the Canary Islands; in the summer of that year he released the soundtrack to the opening ceremony of the 13th World Swimming Championships in Rome, as well as the soundtrack for the Italian Samsung Corby advertising campaign.
Since 2009, Rimbaud visiting professor at University College Falmouth and the Le Fresnoy- Studio national des arts contemporains in French Tourcoing.
Published in October 2010 scanner and The Post Modern Jazz Quartet (Michael Bisio, Khan Jamal, Matthew Shipp and Michael Thompson) with the album Blink of an Eye is a synthesis of post-modern (electronic) elements and " pure acoustic " jazz.
Awards
Rimbaud's radio adaptation of Jean Cocteau's The Beloved Voice (La Voix Humaine ) for the BBC was awarded in 2000 the Prix Marulić. His installation Wishing Well (together with the Austrian artist Katarina Matiasek ) won the 2001 Neptune Water Prize.
Discography (selection)
Albums