Audio Active – Melody Maker (1995)
Scanner surfs the audio airwaves and tapes potential train crashes. Mark Roland meets him at the restaurant at the end of the universe.
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Robin Rimbaud
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Making Music (1995)
Got a mobile phone? Then you may have supplied the vocals for an album out this month. Robin Rimbaud, better known as Scanner, introduces Steve Wright to the pleasures of listening to other people's "private" conversations
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Techno’s ‘well weird’ grandad – The Independent (1995)
What do Karlheinz Stockhausen, Scanner and the Aphex Twin have in common? Dick Witts took Radio 3's Music Machine (and an hour of tapes) to Germany to find out
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Radio Star – Me and My Gizmo, The Guardian (1995)
As a child, Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, tapped phones, bugged his enemies and recorded his friends' conversations with his Walkman.
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Unknown fanzine (1995)
I've had a nice easy day...just settled down in front of the movie channel...a nice easy day...Interview with Scanner 1995
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Cellnetted in Fact Magazine (1995)
Using a mobile phone? Beward: Scanner could be listening. And he might put your voice on a record. By Andrew Perry
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Bugging Di – The Evening Standard (1995)
It started with Squidgygate. Then came Charles, Camilla and that tampon confession. Now scanners nationwide are tapping your calls. Tim Marsh tunes in
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Messages from Cityspace (1995)
In the depths of the sprawling city a lone figure leans out from a rooftop peering into the gloom. He fine tunes the small receiver he holds out its aerial piercing into the sky like a surreal fishing rod.
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Breaking Sound Barriers (1995)
The techno-ambient recordings of conversation voyeurist Robin Rimbaud are not so much musical compositions as they are audio snapshots, scenes of urban intimacy set against a backdrop of dissonant soundscapes
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Machine Head – Arena Magazine (1995)
Static bleeds over the PA system against a background of gentle, quasi-abstract beats. Radio frequencies are being cast. Suddenly a human voice drops out of the ether
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Techno-Hacker Crossovers (1995)
In an attempt to bring you the ultimate in Techno-Hacker crossovers, George Millward delives into the morass of cyberspace to deliver an interview with Robin Rimbaud
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Un’Immagine by Erik Kessels
UN'IMMAGINE is a work by visual artist Erik Kessels (Netherlands), made up of thousands of pictures from Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive
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Convulsion Magazine (1995)
Interview with Andrew Leeds Burton in London in December 1994 for Compulsion Magazine in 1995
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The Wire (1994)
The Scanner CDs, which feature intercepted cell phone conversations set to music, have generated a storm of controversy. What do they tell us about our ideas of privacy, voyeurism and vicarious living?
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The Face Magazine (1994)
Those bedroom boffins who've been making techno doodles on sampler's have now moved on to eavesdropping. Beware: little brother is watching you, by Andrew Smith
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Melody Maker (1994)
Scanner creates compulsive, disturbing listening from overheard phone calls and minimalist electronica. David Hemingway taps in
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The Independent Newspaper (1994)
Music Sans Frontieres - George Barber tunes into some private lines in The Independent Magazine 3 September 1994
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DJ Magazine (1994)
"If you have a mobile phone and live in London, chances are Robin Rimbaud is listening in" Artist Profile: DJ Magazine 1994 by Andy Crysell
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Bug Brother (1994)
Bethan Cole eavesdrops on Scanner and the man bringing a little 1984 to 1994, an interview with Robin Rimbaud in The List, Scotland
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Strom Newsletter 12.2025
An overview of 2025, with four new albums, performances in Thailand and Italy, Earspace Radio and much more
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Concrete Resistance with Robin Rimbaud (2025)
An extended philosphical and thoughtful interview about the invisible architectures of intimacy, surveillance, and presence of sound
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Strom Newsletter 11.2025
Travels from Berlin to Bari, Cabaret Voltaire to Nick Drake. New music and much more!
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Forces, Reactions, Deflections – The Making Of
The making of my album Forces, Reactions, Deflections on Quiet Details, using a Geophone microphone and metal staircase
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Strom Newsletter 10.2025
Three new albums, Songlines and Forces, Reactions, Deflections, and The Sinking of the Titanic. Plus EarSpace 27 and Fendi
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Strom Newsletter 09.2025
Stories from Helsinki, a 360 audiovisual installation in Turin, my debut column for Waveform magazine, and friends overseas
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Strom Newsletter 08.2025
Chatting with SonicState, art installations, mould remediation, on stage in Helsinki, London and Italy and GRIMM ballet
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Strom Newsletter 07.2025
Hello I’ve just returned from Lisbon, Portugal; an absolutely beautiful city I’ve visited several times over the years. I was there to perform at Village Underground for the Liquid Sky…
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Strom Newsletter 06.2025
From Ravenna to Lisbon, via Manchester and London, Scanner tells stories of his month. Live music improvisation and future shows
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Strom Newsletter 05.2025
Hello I’ve just safely returned from Amsterdam, where I was attending the Savvy Awards Ceremony to collect an award. Winning a Savvy Award in Amsterdam I was 12 years old the last…
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