Scanner [Royal Opera House - London]

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Robin Rimbaud, known in experimental music circles as Scanner, first attracted attention when he started using ‘found’ mobile phone conversations in his compositions.

 

Using a hand-held scanner, he trawled the airwaves for sonic artefacts to use in his work, developing a form of music that is rich with warmth and frailty, yet heartbreakingly poignant and immersive, twisting technology in unconventional ways to find new worlds of sound.

 

He has collaborated with a wide range of artists, including Bryan Ferry, Merce Cunningham, the writer and critic Sukhdev Sandhu, Steve McQueen and Wayne McGregor. In ‘Of Air and Ear’, he will be combining his distinctive techniques with a spectacular playable light sculpture created by the visual artist Sophie Clements, who has specialised throughout her career in working with sound and music.

 

The result will be a dialogue of colour, music, texture and light, given renewed force by live percussion from Pete Lockett. This event will continue through the night, allowing the audience to be drawn further and further into the hypnotic interplay of light and sound.

 

Where: Paul Hamlyn Hall

When: Sep 13, 8pm -2am; £8 before 10pm, £10 after.

Anyone up for going to this. Sound like a bit of a laugh, I might get drunk before hand then go around 10-ish

More details here: http://www.roh.org.uk/deloitteignite/scanner.html

was it good?

Cor, that was a while back. Yeah it was well nice, but completely dead (admittedly I got there pretty late, but there was probably less than 20 people in the whole room). Plus I got in for free as some lovely people gave me their tickets as they left early. I even got to have a little chat with the man afterwards.

sounds great to me, I'm not that much for massive crowds. I don't have any idea how "famous" the man and his work are, his stuff always seemed to be kind of difficult to get hold of to me, I don't know very much of it either and there's barely anything about him on watmm as well. Lauwarm Instrumentals is remarkable, Double Fold is pretty different but sick as well. I bought The Garden is Full of Metal some years ago, merely cause I liked the title, but I found it to be a bit disappointing. I guess it would have meant more to me, had I known Derek Jarman, but the quality of the music doesn't compare, maybe it was just too minimalistic for me.

I'm very fond of his bizarre ambient pieces, like Passage de Recherche. I have an eye on Sound For Spaces, but I don't know whether it is what I think it is, and whether I should buy it or not... what IS it?