UPCOMING: (24-28 May)
My piece “1969-2019: Don’t believe in what you’ve never known” will feature.
Video installation, three new video pieces using found tapes. Preview.
CURRENT:
First Original Spanish Nationalist Drive – In Church and Bank. 2nd edition plus live improv at Expo ‘Votox’ ABM Confecciones, Madrid.
Video of performance from 27.4.19
Contributions to two releases on the great Staaltape.
KANTOOR cassette+zine. Release date 13 Feb 2019. info
Dear Concerned Employees. info
Oct. 2018: Audio piece: First Original Spanish Nationalist Drive-In Church And Bank: Spanish Study 1983-2018. Presentación: 12 octubre 2018. clip
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Sept. 2018: Participation in the event ROMERIA Y CHULERIA with a mobile sound installation : Ordering Around. Event info and gallery
Recent:
Playing Time (Past Continuous) – 12 loops
Playing Time (Past Continuous) – 12 loops (edition)
Audio Installation : Playing Time (Past Continuous)
Jun 1-3 2018, Event: Se Alquila/Tiempo
Ryan at Cassette Gods’ review of Unit Audio, 25.9.17
“ UNIT AUDIO is freaking cornucopia of found sound, pieced together for maximum weirdness and instant likability. It starts strong and stays strong, continuing on its path toward greatness minute by warped-audio minute. Ever thought you’d hear somebody talk about musique concrète that way?” Read full review here
Released 30.5.2017: EclectikTronik’s first album release on Staaltape (Berlin): Unit Audio. See the Buy/Releases page for more information.
UNIT AUDIO
UNIT AUDIO PIC2
Recent: EclectikTronik EP#2 now available in PijoPak parody edition and standard edition!
ep#2
Recorded in Madrid 28-2-17 at the event below, using material compiled over the period 2014-2016. Product of a new ‘unit’ approach to working which will be presented soon on a forthcoming full length release. Made from recycled materials, the PijoPak edition (limited to 10 copies) is slightly longer, includes a parody of mass production packaging, a copy of the flyer for the event and is numbered and signed. See the ‘releases/buy’ page for contact details.
click to hear!/pincha para escuchar!
Arte Sonoro en España 1961-2016. I have produced a ‘re-issue’ of Grand Mal Editions’ ‘Usa el auto reverse’ for interactive/ hands-on use.
Gran Mal Editions (1986 orig.) ‘Usa el autoreverse’. C-1 cassettes by Eclectiktronik (2016)
Gran Mal (1986 orig.) Usa el autoreverse. C-1 cassettes by Eclectiktronik (2016)
Also two recently-restored interactive pieces by LUGAN : ‘Grifos sonoros’ and ‘Pajaros Máquinas Niños’.
LUGAN (1988): Pájaros Máquinas Niños
BOOTLEG ACTION V in GRS /AVLAB at MEDIALAB PRADO 18.6.16. VIDEO PROMO
Video
Found-Video Tape Footage interactive installation ‘Closed Circuit II (or: Who’s got your video tape collection?)‘. 14 MAY, ‘Habitar la intimidad‘ Espacio Nigredo, Madrid.
// instalación interactiva que gira en torno a grabaciones de video personales encontradas en la calle ‘Closed Circuit II’ (o: ‘¿Quien se ha quedado con tus cintas VHS?‘), ‘Habitar la intimidad‘, en Nigredo, Madrid, 14 mayo.
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Bootleg Action III (GRS MADRID en Medialab) Project info
Arcotangente 2016. Pieza nueva// New piece: ‘ Organiza tu despedida’ . 28 Feb 2016 DOWNLOAD
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LUGAN y la Bienal de Sao Paolo 1973.
I have recently been restoring some electronic pieces made by LUGAN, a pioneer in Spanish electronic art. Detail here.//
Recientemente he estado restaurando algunas piezas de LUGAN, un pionero del arte electrónico español. Info aquí.
Próximamente algunas piezas se expondrán en la fundación Juan March (10 feb-21 mayo, Palma, Madrid). Info
Recent Sounds:
Dec.2015: Three programmes for Radio On Berlin, collaboration with Rinus Van Alebeek. Check broadcast times (programmes are repeated various times a week).
Programme I: ‘Playing with Voyeurism’ is an interview taped with Rinus in Madrid, discussing early experiences with found tapes and equipment.
Programme II: ‘The Ben Roberts show’ is a sort of home-made radio show where I give an overview of my performance work during the decade 2005-2015, playing excerpts from the releases.
Programme III: To be announced, this one will probably feature Rinus’ ‘remixing’ of some of the above.
Bootlegging Rinus van Alebeek, Oct 2015
‘Spanish Study 2005-2015´. Piece made for Arcotangente 2015 Bajar/Download http://lagaleriadearcotangente.tumblr.com/post/111948882838/ben-roberts-eclectiktronik-spanish-study
This album was assembled from a live improvisation with Gyohei Zaitsu (Butoh dance) in Barcelona, 2013. Constructed from reel to reel and cassette loops and modified vinyl. It continues the theme of disintegrating socio-economic relations, partially explored here with taped narrative cutups, obscure historical/literary insights into Barcelona’s working class. Yet it could just as well be a soundtrack for today, an artistic response to the collapse of a society fed on delusions of global consumer democracy, and rapidly losing belief in its own future. Hear preview :https://soundcloud.com/eclectiktronik/eclectiktronik-nocturnal-mammal-house
