I love this so much. It's everything I want to hear.

very good! I like this stuff and I´m happy to see Colin this saturday with Wire!

De:tuned guest mix on We Are Various by Scanner (UK).

Tracklist

00.00	Oval: Textuell
02.10	Laurie Spiegel: Drums
04.55	Fovea Hex: We Dream All The Dark Away (Remix By Abul Mogard)
12.17	Thomas Brinkmann: Paris Texas
18.16	To Rococo Rot: Cosimo
21.20	Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force: Yermande (Prophet 5 Mix feat. Mbene Diatta Seck)
27.28	Robert Fripp: The Deception of the Thrush (RF guitar extract)
30.16	Loscil: Red Tide
35.12	Arovane: Tascel 7
40.08	Autechre: y7
44.52	Maggi Payne: Gamelan
48.20	Fog School: Pieces (Fragmented by Scanner)

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Scanner The Homeland of Electricity DiN72

Release date 17th June 2022
Limited to 500 copies Digipak CD

The second album for the DiN imprint by British Electronic Musician Scanner sees Rimbaud utilising a different toolset from his first album, An Ascent (DiN63), released in July 2020. Here he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone.

Rather prophetically Rimbaud states that this album was indebted to the work of the Ukranian film maker Laris Shepitko. Indeed the title of the sixth track “Artemovsk” references the birth place of Shepitko. Furthermore the title of the album, “The Homeland of Electricity”, is taken from her 1968 film which was commissioned by the government to celebrate the October Revolution’s 50th anniversary, but was rejected by the authorities for not being patriotic enough.

At times the music has a sense of blissful calm such as the opener “You and Me” with layers of texture slowly rising & falling to unveil hidden depths to the soundscape. Rimbaud’s love of the human voice as a musical element can be heard in the tracks “Another Aircraft”, “Artemovsk” and “At last it moves into silence” albeit with very different sonic outcomes. Fluctuating between darker elements displayed in such tracks as “Air in the Air” and “Beginning of an Unknown Century” in the end the album reveals a sense of hope which is no more apparent in the joyous simplicity of “Acentria”.

As Rimbaud puts it “this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle”.


01 You and Me   05:58
02 Air in the Air   05:10
03 Another Aircraft   05:29
04 Grain, Letting Go   05:02
05 Beginning of an Unknown Century   05:33
06 Artemovsk   05:32
07 At last it moves into silence   03:47
08 Heaven Research Unlimited   04:08
09 Acentria   04:55
10 Traces upon Traces   04:19

Total Time :  50:11

The Homeland Of Electricity

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The Homeland Of Electricity by Scanner (DiN72) Demo Mix

Harda Vydia (Dub Mix)

Musique: Erik Karol

Scanner aka Robin Rimbaud: Programing & keyboards
Erik Karol: Keyboards & vocals
Mixed by Scanner
Cover & Art: Kharma Estrany

Harda Vydia (Remixes by Scanner)

Harda Vydia (Dub Mix by Scanner)

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Small Triumphs And Deep Disappointments (Scanner Remix)

a mixture of alternative rock and electronic dance music

Heads On Fire

Various Artists Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live DiN:TS08

Release date 6th October 2023
Limited to 500 copies. Digipak CD format

Tone Science sub-label, from DiN records, continues to explore the world of modular synth music.

The first seven volumes on the Tone Science sub-label featured 63 musicians (9 on each album) with varying backgrounds and styles, showcasing the wonderful richness and variety inherent in the world of modular synthesis. The next step was to transfer this concept to a live performance and hence the inaugural Tone Science Live concert, which took place at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on the evening of 22nd April 2023. 

All five musicians were set up onstage simultaneously and each played solo before joining together at the end. Field Lines Cartographer opened the evening with a beautiful set full of glistening textures and pulsating oscillations. Next came Nigel Mullaney with a more upbeat performance, featuring the famous “Pale Blue Dot” speech from Carl Sagan which seemed very appropriate as the 22nd April was Earth Day. After a short interval, Polypores took to the stage with a breath-taking display of modular synth virtuosity, with him constantly shifting and morphing the myriad sequencer patterns and tones emanating from his modular system. DiN label boss Ian Boddy followed with a sonic trip through four ambient sections, seamlessly mixing minimal ambience with vibrant pulsing sequencers before falling away to a tranquil conclusion. After another short break, Scanner played a stunning set featuring field recordings and disarming vocal samples and building up a monumental industrial rhythm from the simplest of ingredients.

The evening ended in fine style with all five musicians taking to the stage and performing an ambient drone piece inspired by the early American minimalist composers. At the helm was Scanner, mixing and shaping the overall sound of the music as it slowly grew in intensity to fill the hall with a mesmerising wash of tones. A fitting end to what was a fantastic evening of music from five musicians coaxing such varied and beautiful sounds from their small modular systems.

The entire evening is presented as a double CD in a 6-panel Digipak with accompanying 8 page booklet. A must-have album for followers of the Tone Science series.


Track listing:

01 TSL Set 1 by Field Lines Cartographer   23:43
02 TSL Set 2 by Nigel Mullaney   27:44
03 TSL Set 3 by Polypores   22:42
04 TSL Set 4 by Ian Boddy   23:58
05 TSL Set 5 by Scanner   28:45
06 TSL Set 6 by Tone Scientists   23:58

Total Time: 151:00

Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live

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Tone Science Module No.8 Tone Science Live Demo Mix

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A motorik Scanner remix of Before Tomorrow by Githead, my alter ego rock band with Colin Newman (Wire), Malka Spigel and Max Franken (of Minimal Compact). 
Unreleased, a little treat for you all :-)

Before Tomorrow (Motorik Mix)

Bev Boyd talks to Battersea-based poet Hilaire about her collaboration with artist Stephen Graham

Doddington Estate Art Collaboration

This series will explore the Anthony Burgess Cassette Archive.
Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917. He published more than 50 books, including 'A Clockwork Orange' and 'Earthly Powers' and he composed around 250 musical works. His wife Lianna carried a cassette recorder at all times to capture her life with the author and their son. The archive is extraordinarily intimate and has been remixed by 23 artists in a new project which provides unique insight into Burgess. Find out more about the project at https://www.subrosa.net/en/catalogue/soundworks/anthony-burgess.html 
•	Anthony Burgess from Andrew Biswell, director of the foundation
•	The most unusual things in the archive from Anna Edwards, the foundation’s archivist
•	How the project came about from Alan Dunn, artist and producer
•	How artist Scanner AKA  Robin Rimbauld worked with the archive material
We will also get to hear some of the archival recordings and adaptations too.


Conversations with the Anthony Burgess cassette archive (1964-1993: We are pleased to announce the release of a new collection of rare archival material from the Anthony Burgess archive alongside remixed ‘conversations’ from a range of artists and musicians including Scanner, Chris Watson, Band of Holy Joy, Clinic and Dinah Bird.

Double LP/CD curated by Alan Dunn in collaboration with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Guy-Marc Hinant, Sub-Rosa. 

Anthony Burgess’s second wife Liana carried a cassette recorder with her at all times to capture her life with the author and their son Andrew. This extraordinarily intimate audio archive of over 1,000 cassettes now sits with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and artist Alan Dunn has been granted access to select excerpts from it and curate sonic conversations from others.

Disc 1 contains the very first and last known recordings of Burgess’s voice alongside domestic incidents, rehearsals and answering machine messages, while Disc 2 invites 23 artists and musicians to remix the rare material into a unique Burgess portrait far beyond ‘A Clockwork Orange’.

Biographies
Born in Manchester in 1917, Anthony Burgess was educated at Xaverian College in that city and at Manchester University. He served in the army from 1940 to 1946 and as an education officer in Malaya and Brunei from 1954 to 1959. He published more than 50 books (including ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and his masterpiece, ‘Earthly Powers’) and composed around 250 musical works. He was created a Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by President Mitterrand of France and a Commandeur de Mérite Culturel by Prince Rainier of Monaco. He died in London in 1993. His books are still read all over the world. 

Alan Dunn is an artist and curator based between Liverpool and Leeds, where he is a reader in Art & Design at Leeds Beckett University. His projects have been presented at Tate Britain, ICA, Liverpool Art Prize, BBC Radio and Bluecoat. See www.alandunn67.co.uk 

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester is an independent educational charity which encourages public and scholarly interest in all aspects of the life and work of Anthony Burgess. See https://www.anthonyburgess.org

SUB ROSA is a Belgian-based record and production company managed by Guy Marc Hinant and Fred Walheer and has been releasing records across avant-garde, electronic, world and noise music genres since the late 1980s. See https://www.subrosa.net/en.html

Anthony Burgess Archive: Scanner

A collaborative track with Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) for an unnamed upcoming release. The opening uses the wonderful Stream app from Delta Sound Labs (https://deltasoundlabs.com/tag/stream).
Photo is from a long time ago :)
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L-F, (Scanner, Vitiello)

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.

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