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