With a fascination for the sounds that surrounded him, Robin Rimbaud built a career spanning four decades. With a creative spirit and a humble attitude, his work continues to be featured the world over. From a very early age Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, has been fascinated with sound. In fact, as a child he would take his cassette recorder everywhere he went and record all sorts of things. "We had this cheap plastic portable battery-powered tape recorder, so I would record

From "prepared" piano experiments to modular synth mastermind, Ian Boddy has spent the last 42 years exploring the sonic universe. For ten-year-old Ian, the internal parts of his grandmother's piano were more interesting than banging on the keys. The unusual sounds that could be made fascinated him and led to many "prepared" piano experiments. By his early teens he was experimenting with cassette recorders and audio tape, but it wasn't until the late '70s when Ian went to u

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Sound on Sound magazine presents Synthfest / UK, October 8, 2022. To be held at The Octagon, in Sheffield, it will feature a day of seminars, demos, exhibits, and education. For tickets and information visit: https://www.synthfest.co.uk/home

Electronic duo, Matrix Mirage has released the first installment in a series of live, improvisational, albums. Experiments Volume 1 features excepts from a jam session, recorded on December 3, 2021, and is a mixture of noise experiments and electronic rock. For more information visit: https://matrixmirage.bandcamp.com/album/experiments-volume-1-3