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Scanner, David Rothenberg

You Can't Get There From Here

Label: Monotype Records

Format: CD

Genre: Electronic

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Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is a conceptual artist, writer, plasticien sonore and composer working in London, whose works traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. 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), premiered his six-hour show Of Air and Ear (2008) at the Royal Opera House in London, designed the sound for the new Philips Wake-Up Light (2009), and in 2011 premiered his film collaboration Sakoko with Hussein Chalayan at Paris Fashion week for Vogue Magazine. Committed to working with cutting edge practitioners he has collaborated with Bryan Ferry, Radiohead, Dangermouse, Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet, Wayne McGregor, Flanders Royal Ballet, Hermes, Steve McQueen, Philips Design, Mike Kelley, and Douglas Gordon. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. He is currently Visiting Professor at Le Fresnoy National Centre for Contemporary Arts in France. Philosopher and musician David Rothenberg is the author of Why Birds Sing, also published in Italy, Spain, Taiwan, China, Korea, and Germany, and turned into a feature documentary for the BBC. Rothenberg is also the author of Hand's End: Technology and the Limits of Nature, and Always the Mountains. His most recent book is Thousand Mile Song, about making music with whales. It is accompanied by a CD, featuring live music together with whales, called Whale Music. Rothenberg's music is inspired by the melodies and beats of birds, insects, whales, water, and wind, he blends spontaneous musical inventiveness with a sense of rhythm, exhuberance, and the listening to nature. This project is currently being turned into three separate documentary films. As a clarinetist Rothenberg has performed and recorded with Jan Bang, Scanner, Glen Velez, Karl Berger, Peter Gabriel, Ray Phiri, and the Karnataka College of Percussion. He has nine CDs out under his own name, including On the Cliffs of the Heart, named one of the top ten releases of 1995 by Jazziz magazine. His first CD on ECM Records, 'One Dark Night I Left My Silent House,' a duet album with pianist Marilyn Crispell, appeared in June 2010, and it has been widely reviewed and acclaimed. David Rothenberg is professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.'

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File under: Abstract
Cat. number: mono 038
Year: 2011
Notes:
All tracks written, produced and performed in the Soap Factory London, B Street Cold Spring, and EMPAC, Troy 2008-2010 except: - track 2 live from the Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, August 2007 - track 7 live on WNYC, March 2007. Wave and ice sounds in track 11 recorded in Spitsbergen aboard the Arctic Circle artists residency, October 2009. ©+℗ 2011 all tracks published by Mysterious Mountain Music (BMI) and Scannerdot Publishing (Administered by Bug Music). Released in a four panel gatefold sleeve.