Browse by Artist: SCANNER

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Reason By Heart, Sleep By Twilight
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	BINE 007CD

"'Scanner's music is both tiny and grand. It is like the delicate movement of a watch spinning through space. Microscopic clicks, wood blocks and everyday sounds are painted over rumbling, dark canvases.' The Guardian Newspaper, London -- Scanner is recognised for his sensitivity to sound and space. Through recorded works, performances and installations he continues to explore a world that shifts between digital pop culture and visual arts. For Reason by Heart, Sleep by Twilight, he has created a dreamy, insular world. Recorded exclusively for Bine Music, this work is a tangled web of scrawling, spidery sounds wrapped around a central muted rhythmic motif, that slowly draws you into its sensual vision."

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Teenage Wochen
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	BINE 010EP

"A rare outing on vinyl for two exclusive new Scanner tracks. 'Teenage Wochen' connects folk with an electro beat, sampling voices, acoustic guitar and harmonies to present a spidery, crackling foot tapper, and a melody to take to sleep with you. Autumn nights dissolves a similar mix of sounds into a casserole of bubbling synths and echoing voices and noises, suggesting Throbbing Gristle dining with Klaus Schutze. Since 1991 Scanner has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden is Full of Metal (1998) hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music."

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Moskau Disko
Label:	BINEMUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BINE 012EP

"Following the success of Teenage Wochen in 2006, Scanner follows up his slippery electro trip with Moskau Disko, the warped daughter of a night spent in a digital orgy of Wagnerian creative excess on German label Binemusic, home to modest musical surprises. Terrorized vocals open the acid slip-disc party atmosphere, Kraftwerk seduce the Aphex Twin in the kitchen, and James Holden takes photographs of Paris Hilton washing up the beats, and publishes them on Myspace. This bewitchingly groove-laden Russian discothèque is contrasted by the slow motion elegance of 'Russe Traum,' as the stockings are tidied away, the curtains drawn and the lights softly dimmed. Scanner -- British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud -- explores an eclectic mix of activities that place him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Since 1991, he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden Is Full of Metal (1998) are hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music."

Artist:	SCANNER
Title:	Warhol's Surfaces
Label:	INTERMEDIUM (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	INTER 017

"It is no surprise that Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, chose to make a one hour sound-piece of Warhol. Though, basing a 60-minute radiopiece for Bayerischer Rundfunk upon boredom, as is the case here, might seem a bit boring. Or as Warhol might have said: Gee, uhm, really up there. Because Warhol really liked boredom. He liked repetitiveness, copies, details. He liked the surface, the new technology. In fact: he would have liked to be a machine himself. Because Scanner takes the sound as Warhol took the soup; creating a universe where the looping everyday becomes interesting in the blurred domesticity most people see as the very essence of plain, repetitive boredom. Touching upon the fact that it does not matter how famous or ordinary you are: A sausage is just a sausage. Or is it? I guess it's up to each individual to choose what to make of it. Warhol and Scanner are, it seems, just showing us the cans / scan. -- Mathilde Schytz.

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