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Jason W. King
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...what is going on? And why are you being so nice to me?
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Date: Thu, 25 May 95 16:00 WET DST
From: eye WEEKLY <eye@interlog.com>
To: eye-music@winston.interlog.com, eye-l@winston.interlog.com
Newgroups: eye.news, tor.arts, rec.music.ambient
Subject: LIVE EYE: Scanner
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eye WEEKLY May 25 1995
Toronto's arts newspaper .....free every Thursday
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LIVE EYE LIVE EYE
preview
SCANNER
Saturday May 20, 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m.
McLaughlin Planetarium (Royal Ontario Museum), 100 Queen's Park.
$20, ticket includes shuttle bus to post-performance party with
11 DJs and Legion Of Green Men.
LISTENING IN
Scanner's war on the cell-phone
by
CHRIS TWOMEY
Like most technological fixes for making our lives more comfortable,
the portable cellular radio-telephone has only made it more stressful.
It seems cellular phones are not only easy to eavesdrop on, but they
may also be bad for you.
Scanner is an English experimental musician who transforms other
people's radio-telephone conversations (and the broadcast noise that
comes with them) into electronic music. His artistic eavesdropping has
put him at the centre of issues around making private things public.
"It's kind of like a hall of mirrors situation," says the formerly
anonymous Robin Rimbaud, now a presenter on MTV Europe. "The ironic
thing is when journalists ask me questions about `the morality' and `is
this private?' and so on. And the thing I always point to is when Phil
Collins split up with his wife recently."
Oh yes, the world of international gossip! The global village is not a
quiet one and in the electric age the telephone came with, everyone's
business is now our own.
"The interesting thing about this was he actually broke up with her
over the fax machine. And there was a quote in the papers from her and
it said something like, `The fax was so personal even my mother
wouldn't want to read it.' And then she sold it to the national press
and printed it in all the papers! And I can't help think -- what is
private any more?"
Privacy is the last thing to worry about if you use the kind of
portable phones that Scanner will be sampling and manipulating live
from the Toronto airwaves this weekend. In Scanner's piece "RF
Radiation" on his latest techno-flavored album, Spore (New
Electronica/Cargo), he samples the words of British researcher Roger
Coghill about the dangers of radio-telephones, which may produce
harmful magnetic fields and also seem to broadcast at the resonating
frequency of the human skull. The regulatory bureaucrats "can't tell"
for sure, but, at the "cellular" level, there may be a whole lotta
shaking goin' on.
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