Ultra-red www.ultrared.org
Founded in 1994, Ultra-red are a Los Angeles-based audio activist group producing radio broadcasts, public space occupations, performances, recordings and installations. Exploring acoustic space as enunciative of social relations, the group's work radicalizes the conventions of electro-acoustic music and artistic process. Ultra-red have developed projects around a variety of urban ambiences including needle exchange (Soundtrax, 1996), public sex (Second Nature, 1999), public housing (Structural Adjustments, 2000), resistance to global capital (Imperial Beach, 2003) and immigration (Ultra-red Play Los Jornaleros, forthcoming).
Ultra-red have released CDs and albums on a variety of domestic and foreign labels including Comatonse Recordings (Japan), Mille Plateaux (Frankfurt, Germany), Beta Bodega Coalition (Miami, Florida), True Classical (Los Angeles), FatCat Recordings (Brighton, England), Antiopic (New York) and Sounds-Like (London, England).
In practice and membership, Ultra-red occupy the borders between art and political organizing. The four core members of Ultra-red include: Elizabeth Blaney (artist, organizer with Union de Vecinos), Pablo Garcia (musician, organizer with Valley Family Technology Center), Dont Rhine (artist, AIDS activist) and Leonardo Vilchis (artist, organizer with Union de Vecinos).
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