{"article":{"id":12173,"heading":"Audio Activists ULTRA-RED Performed At PLAN's \"The Next Agenda\" Conference","author":"ULTRA-RED \/ IMC-LA","created":"2001-10-23 13:14:43","modified":"2005-08-15 00:42:01","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:42:01","article":"

Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are audio activists producing radio broadcasts, performances, recordings, installations and public actions, or public space occupations (PS\/o). The group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic and ambient music to explore acoustic space as enunciative of social relations.

With a fluid membership determined by collaborations between electronic musicians and grass-roots political groups, Ultra-red has developed projects around a variety of urban ambiences including needle exchange (Soundtrax, 1996), public sex (Second Nature, 1999), public housing (Structural Adjustments, 2000), issues around globalization (Value System, work in progress) and labor.

Ultra-red have released CDs and albums on Comatonse Recordings in Oakland, California and Mille Plateaux in Frankfurt, Germany.<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.comatonse.com\/ultrared\/","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"The conference concluded with a mesmerizing bilingual multi-media performance by audio activists Ultra Red, featuring spoken word along with processed audio and video, and dealing with themes of border life, culture and politics, including border crossings, music-making and the day-laborers union.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/10\/ultrareds_sm.gif","filesize":"9.5 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/12173.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2001\/10\/ultrareds_sm.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}