Robin Rimbaud (born 1964 in Southfields, London) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact. Rimbaud is also a writer, media critic, multi-media artist and record producer. He borrowed his stage name from the device he used in his early recordings, picking up indeterminate radio signals in the airwaves and using them as an instrument in his compositions. Growing up, Scanner was interested in avant garde literature, cinema and music, attended Kingston University in Surrey, earning a degree in Modern Arts (BA). He created music as Dau Al Set and The Rimbaud Brothers, releasing cassette editions in the early 1980s. He released Peyrere compilation cassette album in 1986, featuring the work of Nurse with Wound, Derek Jarman, Current 93, Coil and Test Dept. That same year, he composed the soundtrack to a short film, A Horse with No Name, directed by Phil Viner, shown at the London Film Festival. In 1989, he was commissioned to contribute to the Cultural Icons publication (Bloomsbury) edited by James Park, writing many articles on contemporary art, literature, music and dance. His debut Scanner CD was released in 1992 on Ash International, a subsidiary label of London's Touch Music record label. He continued to produce the first dozen releases with Mike Harding of Touch, including Scan

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