Hello bramjon,
The musician/composer you remember listening to is Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner.
?Robin Rimbaud aka scanner. records phone conversations with his
portable radio scanner and puts excerpts of the most intriguing
conversations into his recordings and DJ performances. Disturbing,
amusing and often shocking, scanner reveals that nothing is private
anymore and your neighbors are a lot more unusual than you think.
Voyeurism or art? Titillation or a powerful statment on
technology?...?
Artist Direct: Scanner
http://www.artistdirect.com/showcase//club/scann.html
?With his work as Scanner, Robin Rimbaud implicates himself in
processes of surveillance, engendering access to both technology and
language and the power games of voyeurism. Dubbed a 'telephone
terrorist,' Rimbaud is a techno-data pirate whose scavenging of the
electronic communications highways provides the raw materials for his
aural collages of electronic music and 'found' conversations...?
Kunstradio: Scanner
http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/scannerbio.html
Some reviews on Scanner:
"He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound
which is not usually used for music...he has a good sense of
atmosphere"
(Karlheinz Stockhausen - BBC Radio 3, August 1995)
"A man who is making surveillance an art form...The work highlights
disconnection, the fact that while it may be good to talk, it's
sometimes impossible to actually communicate, especially where men and
women are concerned"
(Jim McClennan - The Observer, March 1995)
"He's a kind of end-of-millennium renaissance man... everyone's
favourite phone-tapping, sonic terrorising, media junkie, academic
mover and shaker and, quite possibly, the avant-garde's first sex
symbol"
(Melody Maker)
"The Scanner work is obsessed with hybrid sound - the techno organix
of human communication as indissolubly linked with the sounds of
communication technologies. Here we are, observing the unobserved at
the game of metrofictions"
Village Voice - New York, Sept 1996
More on Scanner and his personal achievements can be found here:
Mute: Scanner
http://www.mute.com/mute/bffp/hover/scanner.htm
You can download and listen to four complete works of Scanner's at the
following site:
?Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner - BBC Radio Works 1998-2002 Four
full-length works created specially for radio: "The Human Voice"
(1998), a production of the Jean Cocteau play starring Harriet Walter;
"The Three Women" (2000), based on poetry by Sylvia Plath consisting
of three intertwining interior dialogues; "The Sounds of Love" (2002),
a musical feature using the extraordinary sounds of love to be found
in nature, starring a cast of hundreds of humans and animals; and "The
Woman With the Fork & Knife Disaster" (2003), a compelling
psychological thriller written by Jackie Kay.?
UbuWeb: Scanner
http://www.ubu.com/sound/scanner.html
?There have been numerous releases on vinyl and CD since 1992. Here
you will find a historical library of Scanner releases, some of which
can be found for purchase at the SHOP.?
Click ?Music? on the menu.
Scanner dot com
http://www.scannerdot.com/sca_001.html
Here is another site listing some of Scanner's releases:
Post Everything
http://www.posteverything.com/labels/releases.php?id=2820
Scanner's Contact Information:
ROBIN RIMBAUD
PO BOX 6127
LONDON
UK
E2 6XD
Email: scanner@scannerdot.com
Website: http://www.scannerdot.com/
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I hope the information provided is helpful. If you have any questions
regarding my answer please don't hesitate to ask before rating it.
Best regards,
rainbow-ga |
