Taking cues from Edgard Varïse's complete recorded work, British electronic artist par excellence Robin Rimbaud - aka Scanner - presents his new score for John S. Robertson's silent film version of Stevenson's classic horror story.
'It's a little-known fact that the composer Edgard Varase, celebrated for his inventive and sculptural works, abrasive and precise, also acted in this classic 1921 silent movie by Robert L Stevenson, playing the role of a police officer. For this new interpretation I have re-sampled the entire archive of Varese recordings towards a new soundtrack, using digital tools to re-process and re-imagine something that might be heard today if only Var se were still with us.' (Scanner)