Scanner

Scanner is the working name of Robin Rimbaud, a British electronic musician and sound artist born in London in 1964. He took the name from the police and mobile phone scanners he used in his early recordings, which wove intercepted private conversations into electronic soundscapes. Active in sound art since the early 1990s, Rimbaud has made albums, installations, film soundtracks and scores for dance. Scanner's debut CD and its sequel Scanner 2 appeared on Ash International, a subsidiary of Touch, followed by Mass Observation (1994).