TONSPUR 21: Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner

Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner is TONSPUR-Artist-in-Residence at q21/MQ Vienna in July 2007<

This work explores an idea of the ensemble voice. Traditional choirs use a series of voices to compliment each other in an elegant formation, but here you listen to the singular voice of the artist in a choral manner. Using breaths and pauses within the piece to echo around this open location, the work suggests a collision between physical space and the human voice. Klusterblock, a playful amalgam of German/English, suggests the use of the voice as a wall of sound, leaving subtle traces of the human, embedding the walls with harmonies of an imaginary nature. [Scanner]

Dieses Werk untersucht eine Idee, die der Ensemblestimme zugrunde liegt. Während herkömmliche Chöre von einer Reihe von sich in eleganter Form ergänzenden Stimmen Gebrauch machen, hört man hier allein die Stimme des Künstlers auf eine chorähnliche Weise erklingen. Durch die Verwendung von Atemzügen und Pausen innerhalb des Stücks, die einen Widerhall zu diesen offenen Stelle schaffen, suggeriert das Werk einen Zusammenprall des physischen Raums mit der menschlichen Stimme. Klusterblock, ein verspieltes Gemenge von Deutsch und Englisch, legt die Verwendung der Stimme als Klangmauer nahe, wobei subtile Spuren des Menschen zurückgelassen und die Mauern in Harmonien einer imaginären Natur eingebettet werden.

Scanner - British artist Robin Rimbaud traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form, creating absorbing, multi-layered sound pieces that twist technology in unconventional ways. From his early controversial work using found mobile phone conversations, through to his focus on trawling the hidden noise of the modern metropolis as the symbol of the place where hidden meanings and missed contacts emerge, his restless explorations of the experimental terrain have won him international admiration from amongst others, Bjork, Aphex Twin and Stockhausen. Scanner is committed to working with cutting edge practitioners and has collaborated with artists from every imaginable genre: musicians Bryan Ferry, Radiohead and Laurie Anderson, The Royal Ballet and Merce Cunningham and Random Dance companies, composers Michael Nyman and Luc Ferrari, and artists Mike Kelley, Derek Jarman, Steve McQueen, Carsten Nicolai and Douglas Gordon. Since 1991 he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, 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. In 2004 his Sound Surface work was the first ever Tate Modern sound-art commission and in 2006 he produced Night Haunts for Artangel whilst sound-designing a new car horn for the USA. He has performed and created works in many of the world’s most prestigious spaces including SFMOMA USA, Hayward Gallery London, Pompidou Centre Paris, Kunsthalle Vienna, Bolshoi Theatre Moscow, Tate Modern London and the Royal Opera House London. His work has been presented throughout the United States, South America, Asia, Australia and Europe.

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TONSPUR 21: Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner
"Klusterblock"
Ort: TONSPUR_passage
Kurator: Georg Weckwerth