Hello

It's moving towards the festive season here, the Christmas lights brightening up the dark evenings and toasty central heating buffering against the chilly nights. I've managed to slip from the icy blizzard conditions of Aarhus in Denmark over to sunburn central in Brisbane Australia in just one week, so seem to be testing the limits of my body and bodyclock to the extreme.

November began with a week spent running workshops with a group of lively students over at the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts, and for the opening of the 'On the Edge,' in the fine company of James Patten, Critical Art Ensemble and Eduardo Kac amongst others. Then in almost a dream state I traveled to Australia for the weekend. Whilst most folks might slip out of the city in the countryside for the weekend I moved across the globe for just two days spent by the ocean, and a performance at Brisbane Powerhouse for the 'Sound Polaroids' festival, a title affectionately borrowed from one of my projects some years ago. And before I could ask where the kangaroos were, I was back on the plane! 

Last weekend Sukhdev Sandhu and I premiered our Haunted Lullabies collaboration for the grand 'Because the Night' celebratory evening. In the gigantic space of the old Bethnal Green Town Hall, a ghostly location, we performed the work in near darkness, to a sold out crowd of dedicated nocturnalists.   Expanding upon my Nightjam project with the homeless youths earlier this year I also recently commissioned several artists to remix the original material, so check out www.nightjam.org.uk , to freely download new music from Troy Banarzi, Pete Lockett, Hakan Lidbo, Si-cut.db, and Stephen Vitiello. Further mixes will follow in the months to come.

Don't forget to tune into this months episode of Night Haunts when we'll be telling the tale of the urban fox shoot. As Sukhdev writes:

"As London expands, and the division between the city and the countryside becomes blurred, foxes are commonplace.   They represent the return of repressed nature to a spayed and neutered capital.   They battle down upon us because, whether we know it or not, we are wrecking their homes and whetting their appetites.   They are the trace of the human."

Whilst writing of free items, my live collaboration with motion graphics artists D-Fuse, at Effenaar in Eindhoven The Netherlands, 'Light Turned Down,' is now available to freely download at the NoTV website

Or even speedier you can also manually download your video here:

http://www.notv.com/vodcast/MU_Scanner_vs_DFUSE.mp4   (123 MB)

Download and enjoy! Spread the virus ;-)

Any visitors to London might be interested to check out 'Articulated' at the Bargehouse at Oxo tower, just along the river from Tate Modern. Curated by pioneering digital artists, The Light Surgeons, this cross displinary exhibition will transform the building with a series of multimedia installations for ten days. Connecting the dots between performance, theatre, film and sound, I've curated a series of sound pieces that offer a reading of the city, a cinematic and sonic journey through the metropolis.

And whilst in London don't forget to enjoy the 'Friendscan' installation still showing as part of Game On, at the Science Museum, where all your movements are remembered by a computer and your route mapped across a screen, combined with the movements of previous visitors to create sound and images.

I'm off to Lille in France to soundtrack the classic black and white silent movie 'Broken Blossoms' in a collaboration with mecano musician extraordinaire Pierre Bastien this month, to Philadelphia to continue research at the Wagner Free Institute of Science and then prepare myself for a busy entry into 2007.

So have a wonderful and safe entry into the New Year and see you on the other side.

Yuletide greetings

Robin Rimbaud 

Exhibitions 

Articulated

Bargehouse
Oxo Tower London

01-10  December

www.oxotower.co.uk

This cross disciplinary exhibition will transform Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf on London's South Bank with a series of multimedia installations for ten days. The works unravel a multitude of human stories in the modern metropolis; visitors to the Bargehouse are invited to re-experience the everyday through the exhibition where they can engage with interactive works, short films, live performance and theatre. Sonic installation curated by Scanner, offering a view of the city through sound.

IDA -China
Beijing Film Academy Galleries
Beijing

Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit

21 October 2006 - 25 February 2007

From the PDP-1 of the 1960s to the latest must-have consoles Game On examines the technologies that have revolutionised the gaming world. Friendscan is an interactive installation, inspired by a handheld computer game from the early 1970s, Simon.