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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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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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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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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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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