Strom Newsletter 08.2026
Busy times at Scanner HQ with live performances, writing for Sound on Sound and remixing pop music
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Strom Newsletter 07.2026
A new EP The Prophet, celebrations of William S Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, EarSpace Radio and much more
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Strom Newsletter 06.2026
From performing Eno and Bryars in Prague, to interviewing Alva Noto, and a unique car ballet in Amsterdam
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Curiosity Over Judgement – Listening Across Musical Worlds
A conversation exploring curiosity, listening, collaboration, Stockhausen, Brian Eno, audience experience and creative possibilities
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Strom Newsletter 05.2026
From sound design to Ravenna to 20,000 year old woolly mammoths in Venice, remix for Alka, soundtracks for Fruitopia & the GRIMM ballet
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Bruno’s House (2024)
Bruno's House is an exhibition by Italian artist Salvatore Arancio that brings together a group of works including a film work with Scanner
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‘Together’ – Archivi Sonori Malagola
A permanent 8-channel sound installation in Malagola, Ravenna, Italy, exploring the voice, intimacy and togetherness.
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VOICE_ERASE.PY
VOICE_ERASE.PY is an artwork in the form of digital code to encourage recording and forgetting in our modern age
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Strom Newsletter 04.2026
An overview of March 2026, with a new album from Geins’t Naït, live footage with Cabaret Voltaire, Cameo's Word Up and much more
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Minimalist Anti-Hero Scanner by Anthony Carew (1996)
Robin Rimbaud is Scanner, a workaholic English eccentric whose sprawling work-in-sound ranges much further than a humble discography.
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Addicted to Your Noise by Marc Spiegler – Wired Magazine (1996)
English writer, producer and musician Scanner trawls the airwaves for cell phone conversations to weave into chilling ambient music recordings
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The Lizard by Rob Young (1996)
We are all scanners. If we're not settling down in the sofa with a six-pack to watch cataclysmic events in other people's personal lives, then we're handicamming through the streets
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Scanner by Michael Uman – Seconds Magazine (1996)
Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a Techno Telephone Terrorist. DJ Spooky calls him "The Clockwork Orange Milk Bar Kid."
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Eavestripping – Paper Magazine by Kurt Reighley(October 1996)
Big Brother may be watching you, but London's Robin Rimbaud would rather just listen.
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Mute Superstar – Magnet Magazine (1996)
Interview by Gil Gershman with musician, DJ, remixer, artist, lecturer, label founder, writer, media-proclaimed 'radical techno data pirate' Scanner
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Strom Newsletter 03.2026
From Athens to playing with Cabaret Voltaire, EarSpace Radio to musical supermarkets
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Strom Newsletter 02.2026
An overview of the month, with trips to Amsterdam, two new episodes of EarSpace, working with Vexed Generation and supporting Cabaret Voltaire
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Strom Newsletter 01.2026
First newsletter of 2026 with stories of Thailand, Nostalgic Bandwidth Anomalies and new projects for the year ahead
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The Angry Brigade (i-D Magazine 1996)
Subversive, sceptical and sardonic, Britain's techno underground is a world away from the optimism of American cyber-culture. Wave goodbye to the future as you thought you knew it...
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Bon Voyeur (G-Spot Magazine 1996)
Homepage! G-Spot Home Visits #2: Scanner "the bloke who stands at the top of Saint Paul's and sucks off the whole of London"
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Reach Out and Clutch Someone – Alternative Press (1996)
Interview with Robin Rimbaud in Alternative Press magazine in the USA from 1996
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Melbourne Newspaper (1996)
Interview with Robin Rimbaud Scanner in Melbourne newspaper, based around his live performance at the Fringe Festival finale
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Eavesdrop Zone – NME (1995)
Techno art genius or state-of-the-art nosey parker? Scanner's penchant for 'found' samples of mobile conversations has divided critical opinion, but Roger Morton finds a thoughtful, intelligent musician with a healthy appetite for good old-fashioned vulgar entertainment
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Scanner Interview for Radio Centraal (08/07/1995)
Scanner interview for Radio Centraal on 8 July 1995 with Tom Kloeck
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It’s Good to Talk – On Magazine (1995)
Petula risks a quick chat with surveillance minimalist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner in On Magazine (1995)
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A scanner in the works – Observer Newspaper (1995)
A scanner in the works from Observer Newspaper 1995 - Jim McClellan on a man who is making surveillance an art form
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One 2 One: Scanning Scanner in Mute Magazine Issue 1 (1995)
A telephone interview with Scanner - musician, composer, performance
artist...by William Shoebridge
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