First thing I thought of was another more niche musician (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud) who released

First thing I thought of was another more niche musician (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Rimbaud) who released a number of tracks in the early 1990s under the name "Scanner". Which, as the name suggests, was ambient music over recorded snippets of conversation picked over radio scanners.