[Nettime-bold] [ULTRA-RED] Performances in Portugal, Spain and SF

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ULTRA-RED BRING "TRABAJO Y DÍAS" TO PORTUGAL, SPAIN AND SAN FRANCISCO

This summer, Los Angeles audio-activists Ultra-red will appear in three
prestigious music and media arts festivals: the San Francisco Electronic
Music Festival, Barcelona Spain's Sonar Festival and the "Squatters"
Festival at the Casa Serralves in Porto, Portugal. For each appearance,
Ultra-red will showcase a new program titled "Trabajo y días (Social Factory
No. 3)". 

Following Ultra-red members' participation in a variety of campaigns and
projects around immigrant labor in Los Angeles, "Trabajo y días"
(translated, Work and days) combines field recordings, pre-recorded
interviews with workers and organizers, sound and image processing, and
spoken word. A mixed media bucolic, the performance cuts across protocols of
lap-top electro-acoustic music, press conference polemics and panel
discussion dialectics.

At the center of "Trabajo y días" is a collaboration between the audio
activists of Ultra-red and the band Los Jorneleros del Norte. Comprised
entirely of immigrant day laborers, Los Jorneleros are modern-day
troubadours. Drawing on the influences of Mexican and Central American
popular music, Los Jorneleros sing about the daily life of day laborers in
Los Angeles. 

In contrast to Los Jorneleros who wed social commentary to popular music
forms, Ultra-red endeavor to politicize the form itself. This struggle
between pop form and its transformation aesthetically and politically
permeates "Trabajo y días" as well as the tension between new media
technologies and their social conditions. From its electro-acoustic music to
its spoken word poetics, "Trabajo y días" argues that organizing for change
entails listening for its possibility.

Whether it's their acclaimed albums or headline-grabbing political
interventions, Ultra-red consistently explore the ways experimental art can
reconceptualize social justice organizing. This commitment brings together
the group's current line-up of Elizabeth Blaney (Video and Textual Poetics),
Pablo Garcia (Digital Sound Processing), Shannon Noble (Digital Image
Processing - not on tour), Dont Rhine (Sound Design) and Leonardo Vilchis
(Video and Textual Poetics).

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Saturday, May 5, 2001
Event:  San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (May 3, 4, 5 and 6)
Site: Cellspace, 2050 Bryant St., San Francisco (Between 18th and 19th)
URL: http://www.sfemf.org

Saturday, June 16, 2001
Event:  Sonar 2001 (June 14, 15 and 16, 2001)
Site:  Sonarmacba, Barcelona, Spain.
URL: http://www.sonar.es

Tuesday, June 26, 2001
Event:  "Squatters" Exhibit and Performance Series, Foundation Serralves
Site: Casa Serralves, Porto, Portugal
URL: http://www.serralves.pt

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Founded in 1994, Ultra-red have released CDs and albums on Comatonse
Recordings (Oakland, California), Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt, Germany), True
Classical (Los Angeles) and Beta Bodgea (Miami). For more information about
Ultra-red visit their website at http://www.comatonse.com/ultrared/

To contact Ultra-red directly, email Dont Rhine at dontr@earthlink.net




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