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http://www.joydivisionreworked.co.uk

“If Curtis hadn’t died you can’t help but wonder if this the kind of thing they would be doing today.”
The Independent

“brutalist… romantic… imaginative”
The Sydney Morning Herald

A special ten minute edit of live recordings from Live_Transmission, a collaboration between electronic composer Scanner and the 45-piece Heritage Orchestra in an audio-visual re-imagination of the sound and spirit of Joy Division. 

Instilled with poetic snapshots of Ian Curtis’ haunting vocals, Live_Transmission guides audiences through a sonic monument of new compositions accompanied by an animated landscape of artwork and projections created by visual artist Matt Watkins, reminiscent of the band’s creative process. 

Celebrating Joy Division’s key musical moments and groundbreaking evolution, Live_Transmission has redefined concert boundaries since proving a centrepiece of last year’s prestigious Brighton Festival 2012.

Live_Transmission: Joy Division Reworked

Staging Silence (Hans Op De Beeck) [Orignal Motion Picture Soundtrack]

Staging Silence, Pt. 2

Staging Silence, Pt. 1

Wing Pinger

Wing Pinger 01

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)

Loess

Flared Slope

Vermiculite

Volcanic Ash

Luncacrete

Weathered Rocks

Duricrust

Kaolinite

Groundwater

Illite

Clay Loam

The Phenol Tapes

Beach Relics

Robert and Cy

Rhyme and Rebus

Columns

Falling Columns

A Scanner Christmas

Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas

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

Falling Forward

Whilst recently digitising my tape archive I came across this one from Geff/John Balance of Coil, with whom I frequently exchanged music. It features this one solitary track which I believe he gave me to play out at my Electronic Lounge club that I ran at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London in 1994.

The other side features remixes of the band Stabbing Westward tune 'Lies' but don't believe this has anything to do with Coil. I just think Geff was recycling a tape that was lying around in the studio. This seems to be an alternative mix of ELpH - Static Electrician, longer than the released version.

I share it with you out of respect to the memory of great people no longer with us, and ask that you don't try to profit by making money out of this. Gift culture can make others happy :-)

Coil - For Robin

Forces, Reactions, Deflections

Base Plate

Riser Beam Connection

Grain Stress

Start Moment

End Moment, Wires

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

As thrilled as I was to be invited to support American pianist Harold Budd in London in April 2018, for his first show there in 17 years, I was equally dispirited by the cancellation of the event suddenly last week.

In the absence of this live show then here's a version of a piece I intended to perform on the night itself as a little tribute to Budd, and for the audience. I hope you will enjoy it and imagine sitting in a Church in London, only the creaking of the wooden benches and occasional shoe shuffles and coughs as your only other sonic distraction.

It's a version of his tune Late October, originally heard on The Pearl (1984), in collaboration with Brian Eno and produced by Daniel Lanois.

For Harold

Late October

Today is a troubling day for many in the UK. After the results of an election that was plagued and stained with lies and deception, we are now left in a very precarious position. Many friends are feeling very dispirited and lost today, as am I. So, I sat in the studio this morning and improvised live to the celebratory speech of the winning party. In response to the situation I then reversed parts of it, as well as using a recording of this very speech and buried it deep within the music, again playing backwards. It's clear to many that this political situation is not taking us forwards, but rather back to a nostalgic and challenging past. So, for this moment, use this music to relax and switch off the news.

Backwards to go Forwards

Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson BBC 6 Music with Scanner & Daniel Miller

Blink of an Eye

Dreaming with You at My Side (feat. Matthew Shipp & Post Modern Jazz Quartet)

An unreleased Scanner remix for Meat Beat Manifesto from the sessions for Storm The Studio R.M.X.S. (2002), a more biting and rhythmically intense mix than that which was officially released. Discovered in the archives, amongst many other delights :-)

Meat Beat Manifesto: Re-Animator (Scanner Collapse)

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.

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