Released 30.5.2017: EclectikTronik’s first album release on Staaltape (Berlin): Unit Audio. Available from Staaltape or 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.
Recent work:
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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
Recent work: 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
