Anechoic Chamber Episode 21 - Scanner - a podcast by Thomas Bey William Bailey

Welcome listeners to the 21st episode of Anechoic Chamber, once again bringing you unique reportage from the thriving margins of art and culture. Our guest this time is the British sound artist Scanner, known by his human alias Robin Rimbaud. With a staggering number of live actions and recordings to his credit, Scanner’s oft-cited and controversial claim to fame has been his usage of intercepted communications and conversations as the raw material with which to build music dramas with an intense poignancy and personal relevance. This practice is, however, just one point of reference in a large body of work that deals with what the artist has called a “archaeology of loss” documenting the ghosts and all-too-quickly forgotten ephemera of the information age. Scanner’s enthusiasm for such led to the co-formation of the notable record label Ash International, one of the key labels to fuse esoteric or paranormal interests with aesthetic impression from the hard sciences. His own work has been applied to all kinds of installation environments and contexts, and to collaborations with artists from DJ Spooky to Mike Kelley, and has even earned the endorsement of the late Gilles Deleuze. He has created permanent installations in everything from Riga airport to a Paris morgue, has scored the first virtual reality ballet for the Dutch National Ballet, and also scored a piece in Trafalgar Square for 1,000 dancers. With a restlessness that has extended to his private practice of writing a daily diary entry since he was 12 years old, we at Anechoic Chamber are fortunate to steal some rare moments of his free time.

all selections provided by Sacnner, from the following releases (mostly) available to stream / download at https://scanner.bandcamp.com/:-"Sound for Spaces"-"Play Along"-"Mass Observation (Expanded)"-"Esprits de Paris (with Mike Kelley)"-"Electronic Garden"-"Reason by Heart, Sleep by Twilight"- also featured Scanner remix of Scorn"Night Tide,"from"Ellipsis"remix album

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