Gas 0095 Quotes: Robin Rimbaud (Scanner)

Today’s Gas 0095 quote comes from conceptual artist Robin Rimbaud who records as Scanner. Scanner shot to fame with his controversial methods of using scanned mobile phone conversations set over ambient scapes. He’s collaborated with Radiohead, Laurie Anderson, Michael Nyman and others, as well as recording for Emit (as has Michael Nyman for a Time EP). His sound design work can be heard as far apart as the Science Museum, a Philips wake up light and US car horn.

Robin Rimbaud on Gas 0095…

“A decade can change everything whilst even opinions and responses can alter in a moment. I remember hearing this CD on first release and being intrigued by the cool, futuristic sounds, possibilities suggested of an icy, cinematic scope. It remains a space-age dreamscape of electronic pulses, nudging rhythms and lost voices in the ether. It was far enough ahead that we are still waiting for it to sound contemporary!’”

Scanner on The South Bank Show 1997 (Popular UK TV arts program)