Forces, Reactions, Deflections

At the core of Scanner's (Robin Rimbaud) work is always a deep curiosity, the ability to make cognitive leaps into the creative unknown and fashion something beautiful - it's with this sense of wonder he's made something truly incredible for quiet details.

The album is a stunning sonic exploration of the world around him, another fundamental element running through his work - realising the majesty contained within structures that has always been there, now brought to life.

As Robin says:

This album is forged entirely from the resonant clangs, echoes, and whispers of a stainless steel staircase at home, transforming everyday architecture into an unexpected orchestra.

By coaxing rhythm, tone, and atmosphere from the metallic body of a staircase, the work reimagines movement between floors as a passage through sound.

No synthesisers were used in the creation, only the natural sound of the staircase using a geophone seismic microphone and the gentle assistance of the occasional resonant filter and sample software.

This has led to an album of enveloping beauty - highly textured drones meet distance pulses; metallic fragments merge with hauntingly evocative melody. Physical architecture translated to harmonic structures in the most breathtaking way imaginable.

There's so much to admire here - from the beauty of the original recordings to the highest level of craft to turn them into something so musically engaging - a true masterpiece from one of our finest artistic minds.