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Invited by Sir John's publisher Music Sales Classical in 2009 to consider a project with him in the future I created a series of rewordings and deconstructions of his work.

Here is one demo which I offer as a gift to his spirit on the day of his passing, 12 November 2013. That collaboration will never happen in the form we intended but very soon more will be revealed. RIP sir.

Mother of God (Sir John Tavener Mix)

Soundtrack to film 'Falling Forward' produced at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts Tourcoing France

Falling Forward

Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's was commissioned to write a new story for the BBC, investigating the portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of BBC Radio 4's Utopia season.

I scored the new work and a separate documentary exploring the subject. This is an instrumental excerpt from the score as many people had expressed an interested in hearing it again.

No Point Talking

My Remix of "Footpaths" from new https://soundcloud.com/scanner record. Thanks to Robin Rimbaud for making available his stems across Blend web site

Footpaths - (Scanner) - Kivitog Remix

Source material recorded at the EMP in Seattle using our mobile phones. We improvised for 10 minutes with these two really terrible digital keyboards and recorded everything using the phone's voice memo function. With a little bit of processing in the studio afterward, I constructed this piece, adding some field recordings I captured during the Substrata Festival field trip.

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Lost Without Light EP

Backwood

Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) is an artist and composer working in the UK, whose works traverse the experimental terrain between sound, space, and image, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres – a partial list would include sound design, film scores, computer music, avant garde, contemporary composition, large-scale multimedia performances, product design, architecture, fashion design, rock music and jazz.

Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sonic art, producing concerts, 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. He scored the hit musical comedy Kirikou & Karaba (2007), designed the sound for the new Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), and campaigns for Stella McCartney (2017), Chanel’s Fall-Winter collection (2012) and Jaguar (2014).

In 2019 he designed the sound for the Cisco telephone systems used in offices around the world, whilst his sound work in Vex House in London was voted as RIBA House of the Year. His work Salles des Departs is permanently installed in a working morgue in Paris.

Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Dangermouse, Coil, Laurie Anderson, Carsten Nicolai, The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Merce Cunningham, Hermes, Hussein Chalayan, Philips Design, Mike Kelley, and Miroslaw Balka. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.