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ben eclectiktronik

eclectiktronik

About Me

Welcome to my space(ship). It's well and truly futile. She's right here where you left her ...For my art and music go to www.eclectiktronik.tk ...Meanwhile...... ***The video clips and mp3s below are designed to be used simultaneously to provide an interactive audio field- by stopping and starting the individual playback and adjusting the volumes up and down, a new, 'remix' synthesis piece can be made.***
  • eclectiktronik
  • My Interests

    art, sound, electronics, music, communication theory, recycling, video, production, ruins, dust, recording, collecting, hunting, talking, looking, finding, turntables, audio, junk and any combination of the above

    I'd like to meet:

    About the songs on the embedded MP3 device below: -PARAISO. Turntablism /found tape performance at El Ojo Atomico, 2006-URBANA. Turntablism / found tape performance at CAM gallery, 2006-SPAIN FOOTBALL WIN. Field recording from my window, July 2008-BERGMANNSTR. FLEAMARKET. Field recording from 'Sounds of the flohmarkt' project, 2008- WE DON'T KNOW IT YET ; - WHAT YOU'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ; - SHAPE, PART ii : The above are taken from the mini album , 'construction for 5 turntables and a record playing fan' , performed at el Jacalito, June 2007, Madrid.-NOTHING LIKE THE REAL THANG : one of my last computer based tracks, recorded in 2001 on a Commodore Amiga!-EXERCISE WITH PAUL : This was a construction I made live on several occasions, all slightly different. This one is from ane event at Melounge, Madrid , 2005
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    Music:

    Jaga jazzist, Silver convention, Brian Eno, corduroy, bebu silvetti, St germain, the chap, grupo sportivo, herbie hancock, donald byrd, Manolo Gas and the Tinto Band Bang, Fecal, Art of noise, de phazz, einstürzende neubauten, rockbotz, gong, LTJ Bukem, Bobbi Humphrey, Serge gainsbourg, velvet underground, Faust, Monade, Cardigans, Tony manero, Volume all star, Luke Vibert wagon christ, Aphex twin, Jorge Ben, Frank Zappa /mothers of Invention, Christian marclay, John Cage, Lee perry, Quincy Jones, Down to the Bone, Kraftwerk, Thievery corporation, James taylor quartet, Django Bates loose Tubes, Bob james, Pierre Henry, ELO, ChiLites, Martyn Ford, Roy Ayers, Stereolab, Alan hawkshaw, Midas Touch, James Last, Herb Alpert, sex pistols, High llamas, Broadcast, Pram, Jessamine, Bert kaempfert, BBC radiophonics, Nino ferrer, Kid Carpet, Bowie, Miles davis, brigitte Fontaine, Harry roche, John coltrane, nurse with wound, Mister K, Air, the Shaggs, Wesley Willis, Kool and the gang, Fela Kuti, Stockhausen, Astrud Gilberto, Michel colombier, Javier krahe, Jake thackray, Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Jacques dutronc, drog-a-tec, erobique, hot butter, War, edgard varese, Steve Hillage, Anita Harris, Nicola Conte, Can, popol Vuh, Saint etienne, hawkwind, Amon Duul i /II , Azymuth, weather report, pat metheny, Norman connors starship orchestra, klaus Wunderlich, the orb, erykah badu, the divine comedy, focus, half man half biscuit, steely dan, the kinks, Bootsy collins, jean jacques perrey, funkadelic, gershon kingsley, parliament, the jb's, maceo parker, tom waits, sergio mendes, randy newman, boards of canada, stevie wonder, Royksopp, Hugo montenegro, mezzoforte, ohio players, stylistics, johnny guitar watson, Airto, deodato, tito duarte, john handy, caravan, henry cow, soft machine, kevin ayers, robert wyatt, shawn lee ping pong orchestra, Keith mansfield, hamilton bohannon, ELP, ryuichi sakamoto, syd dale, tokyo no.1 soul set, the o'jays, maynard ferguson, james brown, gil scott heron, derrick harriott, heino, the crusaders, King crimson, david sylvian, merde sur la mer, supersilent, william shatner, the wombles

    Movies:

    home videos found dumped on old vhs and hi8 tapes

    Television:

    Philips, Toshiba, Hitachi, Thomson-Saba-Ferguson-Telefunken, Grundig, ITT.

    Books:

    box of old letters and diaries by 'Laura' found dumped in Avenida del manzanares, madrid are my current reading matter

    My Blog

    New Eclectiktronik remix music releases

    On Nov. 5th last year I wrote:"The event-story does not end there.  Last month I met up with James of GE and we agreed to collaborate on a strange remix project: I gave him the jacalito material ...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:55:00 PST

    FOUND STUFF!

    For the first entry of 2008 i will be adding a bit of info on latest pickings from the streets of Madrid and elsewhere. stay tuned!quick summary so far:2-1-08 Inves music centre on top of bin in c. ja...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:23:00 PST

    MADRID: ANTIMUSEUM OJO ATOMICO TO CLOSE!

    Ojo Atomico to close.After five long and eventful years of work at the venue in Calle Mantuano, we have decided to close it down  and embark upon a new phase of the Ojo Atomico.The hostility disp...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:24:00 PST

    On Art and Dissent - Part One...

    The Göteborg Biennale has for its theme this year the subject of rethinking dissent.: "...the curators wish to encourage reflection on the condition of the political and the meaning of resistance in a...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:27:00 PST

    NEW MINI ALBUM - construction for 5 turntables and one fan

    I have recently finished putting together a 'mini album': a selection of material from performances in Madrid earlier this year. There are a few MP3 previews now on the embedded sound player.Event his...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:32:00 PST

    écoutez et répétez ;-)

    part of the inspiration for a future 'structural situational' sound installationhttp://www.bu.edu/geddes/lab/video/glc/orientati on1989.html...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:24:00 PST

    An eco-electronic rant

    Our government in the UK struggles to know even what industry is any more, let alone control it. As far as spares go, there was the time when spares had to be kept for all products for a certain num...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:25:00 PST

    ECLECTIKTRONIK VIDS -ON YOUTUBE

    ECLECTIKTRONIK VIDS - YOUTUBE ...TYPE INTO SEARCH BOX 28019AB, HIT ENTER TO VIEW LIST    
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Mon, 28 May 2007 04:17:00 PST

    in honour of analogue and the c90

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6634727.stmI think it will be a considerable time before blank cassettes become unobtainable on the wholesale market. Even when they do, there is a huge quantity of...
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:43:00 PST

    IS THIS THE KLF????!

    http://www.myspace.com/thedjfoundation  check out 'I shot you babe' - conceptual genius!Note the use of G. Glitter on 'God is dead' - that's an old KLF ruse too....
    Posted by ben eclectiktronik on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:18:00 PST