During the Melbourne Fringe Festival, October 1996, Robin Rimbaud, aka Scanner, visited Melbourne, a guest of the Australian Network for Art and Technology. At the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Robin gave a talk on his work which is largely based on sampling in real-time, conversations scanned from mobile telephone transmissions and embedding them within his sound collages of electronic music. Listening, Memory and Methodology is a reconstruction of this presentation - a scan on Scanner.

Listening, Memory and Methodology are three pieces from a 12 part work entitled, Sensorium Scan. Each movement is a cluster of samples which generatively reconstruct the many facets of Robin's work. It is an aural metaphor for Robin's foray's into scanning culture and the source of much of his creations - commentary and discourse continuously re-contextualised by the generative process of the composition.

Generative music is never heard the same twice. It mutates over a given period of time according to parameters set by the composer. Sensorium Scan, in its true form, is ever-changing. It was created with Koan, generative music software from SSEYO.

Listening, Memory and Methodology is being exhibited at the Blue Armory, a digital museum in Virginia, USA. The installation is online via:

www.bluearm.org/omaha/armory/0106700/garton!sound!exhibit

Visitors to the site need at least Netscape 3 and the latest Shockwave plugin. A RealAudio version of this exhibit will soon be available via _Acustica_ on Satellite Dispatch.

www.toysatellite.org/news/acustica/

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