LoveBytes Photo Gallery from the lovebytes festival 2002
Acclaimed British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud, creates absorbing, multi-layered soundscapes that twist technology in unconventional ways. His early work became infamous for using scanned mobile phone conversations. As well as producing compositions and audio CDs, his diverse body of work includes soundtracks for films, performances, radio, and installations.
 Robin Rimbaud AKA Scanner, performer at lovebytes festival 2002 |
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was involved in Lovebytes about 2 years ago on an interactive CD publication
called Digital Space http://www.lovebytes.org.uk/dsp
with a friend called Tonne, yeah so I did a piece for that... Performing at Lovebytes 2002 was interesting actually, as I always improvise and I deliberately didn't use visuals because I wanted people to listen. After the first 10 minutes I was like, actually I don't know what to do now?! I had this pulse going like this di-di-di-di, and I'm thinking what the hell should I do next, but I like that. I was moving about a lot. There is an element of dance to making my music:) I have to say I really enjoyed it, I only came up today and spent most of the day watching events in the cinema. I saw the Richard Lippok thing which was really really good, amazing. Then the warp videos, which were fun, kind of manic, too intense for the middle of the afternoon. Squarepusher, it was like a colonic irrigation film program :) I totally enjoyed my performance, completely. I do mostly commission work now. At the moment I'm doing some very strange projects, one for a mortuary in Paris, in a hospital, a permanent piece, I do lots of pieces like that, commissions, for the French government, I work with dance companies, just had a theatre piece in Australia ...all kinds of weird things. I've been self employed for seven years, I always played around with sound since I was about 11 years old, not that when I was 11 I was thinking, wow, one day I'm going to be an avant-garde artist!. But I liked playing around with tape recorders and things. With music, I started at university then worked in a music library, I worked in a bookshop, I worked full time in the music library and I was doing music as well. I worked 11 hour days, super stressful and then I went part time, and I thought, I wonder if I can survive just working part time?? And enough work was coming in that I thought, I can give this up, and that was 7 years ago and it hasn’t stopped, and I work like manicly at times. I can’t listen to sound too much sometimes and I only record during the day, I don’t do anything at night. I go to bed early, I’m really old fashioned. This is late for me:) So I’m always trying to keep a simple system going as much as possible, I mean I always have deadlines to do but this is not like an office job. But I do get up early and finish at a certain time..I love a bit of discipline J. Well you have to kind of be, when you work for yourself. Yeah today has been great and the response has been positive. The Richard Linklater film - Waking Life - is the oneI think is the one I enjoyed most, because I think the ideas are so strong and I think it’s one of those works that really stays with you. Sometimes you see a film and it’s almost like you’re inside it afterwards, I think there’s so much detail, so much texture, it’s really important to see it again. |
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