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October 12, 2009 - Monday 
Friday, Oct 16th, 2009 // Viaduct Theater, CHICAGO

Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ the Viaduct Theater
Line-up: CP-303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) + Special Guest DJ MARK GERGIS (Sublime Frequencies + Porest)
Doors 10:30pm
Venue information: www.viaducttheatre.com
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Line-Up: Checkpoint 303 (Live Electronics) + Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies / Porest - DJ Set)
Event Description: Arabic Sound Hackers: Did you say Palestine? Yes, we did. Forget about world music, forget about oriental exotic lounge mixes. Expect a night of raw no-nonsense tunes from the Middle-East and beyond. The menu: experimental field recordings, middle-eastern breakbeats, recycled sound, audio collages and exquisite audio piracy by an underground international sound hacking brigade. Checkpoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) and special guest DJ Mark Gergis (Sublime Frequencies / Porest) invite you to tune in to hacked airwaves and chopped sound bites: A ride that will take you from Palestinian underground grooves to Syrian Glamour Dabke, rare sounds from the depths of south-east Asia and everything in between. From Ramallah to Aleppo, Tunis to Beirut, Bagdad to Cairo…A sonic journey of abstract beats and activism for peace, justice, freedom and the right of all populations to self-determination.

Find out more about Checkpoint 303:
www.checkpoint303.com
www.myspace.com/checkpoint303

Find out more about Mark Gergis and the label sublime frequencies:
www.sublimefrequencies.com
www.porestsound.net

Tuesday, Oct 20th, 2009 // The Dark Room, CHICAGO

Live Electronic Set in CHICAGO @ The Dark Room
2210 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60622-4827, USA.
Line-up: CheckPoint 303 (Palestine/Tunisia/France) + more bands/DJs
8pm / $10
Venue information: www.darkroombar.com
Currently reading:
Marxism and the Philosophy of Language
By V. N. Volosinov
10:56 PM 
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September 16, 2009 - Wednesday 
 After All, Everything Is Different In The End

Opening: September 25, 2009 at 18.00
HISK / Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187A, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Open: September 26 - October 18, 2009, Thursday to Sunday from 14.00 till 18.00
HISK / Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Charles de Kerchovelaan 187A, 9000 Ghent, Belgium

Film program: October 5, 2009 at 20:00
Art Cinema OffOff, Begijnhof Ter Hoye - Lange Violettestraat 237, 9000 Gent, Belgium

Mike Carremans / Brandon LaBelle / Gent Clapping Group / Nate Harrison / Jeuno JE Kim / Raimundas Malašauskas / Joris van de Moortel / Tisha Mukarji / Sarah Pierce / Thus & Hence / Ultra-red / Katarina Zdjelar / plus Jean-Luc Godard, Len Lye and Norman McLaren
Currently reading:
The Philosophy of Marx
By Etienne Balibar
4:55 PM 
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August 15, 2009 - Saturday 
Ultra-red
SCHOOL OF ECHOES
Glasgow Sessions

What is the sound of community organising?

International sound art collective Ultra-red launch School Of Echoes Scotland this autumn with a five-session workshop scheduled to take place in Glasgow on five week-end days in October and November. The practice-based workshop on community organising and sound art is open to artists, social movement activists, community organisers, and students.

Description: For fifteen years Ultra-red has used sound to investigate anti-racist organising, the struggles of migration, social housing mobilisation, and AIDS activism. This history informs the approach to sound art that will be presented in the Glasgow Sessions. Drawing on the experiences and commitments of workshop participants, the Glasgow Sessions will examine the practice of community organising through collaborative learning where sound and listening are means for producing collective reflection and action. Workshop activities include walking tours of the city; making site-specific audio recordings; analytical listening to recorded sounds; generating new strategies for collective action; and investigations into the crucial concepts of political process, participation, and political action.

Ultra-red will select fifteen participants for the Glasgow Sessions through an application process. We are seeking participants committed to expanding their practice in art and/or community organising, social movement activism, or radical research. Individuals do not need to be artists or musicians to be eligible to participate. Students are welcome to apply but must be 16 years or older. We are particularly keen to work with people who are 25 or under, students are welcome to apply but must be 16 years or older.  Given the cumulative nature of the workshop, it is essential that participants commit to attending all five sessions. Equipment, materials, travel stipend, and meals will be provided.

Application: Glasgow Sessions is limited to fifteen participants. If you are interested in participating, please submit a 350 to 400-word statement about your artistic and/or community-based investments and how participation in the Glasgow Sessions may contribute to those efforts. Let us know about your experiences, the communities and social concerns in which you are invested and the skills or processes you hope to developed and strengthen by participating in collaborative sound investigations. Your application must include your name, home address, email and contact telephone number. Deadline for application is Friday 25 September. Email application to info (at) ultrared.org. Or send your application by mail to: GLASGOW SESSIONS, c/o Arika 37/6 Brunswick Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5PD.

info@ultrared.org | www.ultrared.org | www.publicrec.org | www.arika.org.uk

Currently reading:
Soap (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
By Francis Ponge
5:37 PM 
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July 31, 2009 - Friday 
Investigation Three are happy to invite you to a public event
at the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre
this Saturday, the 1st of August at 14:30. 

The event is part of our residency at “The Elephant Rooms” gallery (29/07-02/08). The event involves an amplified soundwalk, as in attentive listening and possible recording within the spaces of the shopping centre. After the walk, we invite everyone back to the gallery space, to listen together and discuss “what did you hear”, focusing on the relationship between attentive listening and the regeneration process. 

For further information, please visit our blog http://investigationthree.blogspot.com  or feel free to pop-in and have a chat with us during our residency at the Elephant Rooms, the shop at lower ground floor, opposite old Woolworths.

Warm Regards,
Rashmi Munikempanna, Lucie Galand, Robbie Lockwood, Anna Kontopoulou

[Note: Investigation Three came together as one of the three teams during Ultra-red's Raven Row Sessions of the School Of Echoes. The team have taken up a sustained inquiry into the soundscape and struggles around the Elephant and Castle neighbourhood of London.]
Currently reading:
New Studies of Old Villains: A Radical Reconsideration of the Oedipus Complex
By Paul Verhaeghe
Release date: 2009-01-13
1:21 PM 
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July 19, 2009 - Sunday 
Presented by The Wapping Investigation

Guest speakers:
Anthony Iles, Mute Magazine
Mara Ferreri, Isola Art Centre in Milano

SUNDAY 26th JULY 2pm til 4pm
Discussion at Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London E1 7LS

Stemming from the recent Ultra-red 'School of Echoes' project at Raven Row in Spitalfields, participants in the workshops have been hosting discussions on Sunday afternoons on a range of differing topics.

For the final Sunday session, some of the participants will briefly share some of their sense of unease about contributing to both a gallery and its exhibition programme before opening up the room to conversation.

We invite you to come to this space and discuss many and more of the following themes:

In other cities in the world, there seems both space and practical action that that is able to bring together cultural projects with political activity that link-up and work as a resistance to local regeneration and gentrification. Increasingly in London the gallery or funded art institutions have become the host for (supposedly) interesting discussions and exhibitions around questions of political and cultural organising and not our own alternative spaces, temporary or permanent. Many people sustain themselves through work in and around these spaces (art education, publishing, exhibition projects in and out of the spaces). How does it feel to work politically from within spaces that can be described as a 'contested' spaces? Do we ever escape the vortex of accomodation and instrumentalisation that working out of these spaces often entails.

More pointedly and seeking to go beyond mere institutional critique, we ask the question why does London lack self-organised spaces where the contradictions between art, activism and gentrification can be explored from both the personal realm but at the same time expand collective working against the continuing enclosure of the city?

Currently reading:
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Release date: 2009-08-25
4:43 PM 
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July 8, 2009 - Wednesday 
¿Cuál es el sonido de una comunidad organizándose?

Fechas: Martes 14 y jueves 16 de julio (10 a 16 h.)

Dirigido a: artistas, músicos, interesados en movimientos activistas sociales, trabajadores comunitarios, investigadores militantes y estudiantes.

Información e inscripciones: educacion.ca2m@madrid.org o 91 276 02 27

Concierto Ultra-red jueves16 de julio a las 21:00 h. en la terraza del CA2M
El colectivo de artistas y activistas Ultra-red presenta un taller en dos sesiones en el CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. Partiendo de las experiencias y aportaciones de los participantes, el taller incluirá derivas por el espacio urbano, audiciones, creación de nuevas estrategias para la acción colectiva, e investigaciones en torno a conceptos cruciales de procesos políticos, de participación y activismo político.

Ultra-red: fundado hace quince años en Los Angeles, lleva a cabo Investigaciones Militantes del Sonido junto a movimientos de justicia social en los que el sonido es al mismo tiempo el medio y el espacio de investigación. En este tiempo, Ultra-red ha usado el sonido para analizar los movimientos anti-racistas, las luchas migratorias, la movilización de los sin techo, los movimientos okupa y el activismo contra el SIDA.

Ultra-red dirige el activismo hacia los oídos: el sonido de las comunidades organizándose por sí mismas, la acústica de espacios de disidencia, las demandas y deseos en nuestras voces y nuestros silencios, y los ecos de luchas históricas. Esta investigación toma forma de grabaciones, exposiciones de arte, performances o simples derivas. Los miembros de Ultra-Red trabajan con asociaciones como Rural Racism Project (Devon, UK), la organización comunitaria independiente Union de Vecinos (Los Angeles), la alemana anti-racista Kanak Attak, la Community HIV/AIDS Mobilisation Project (New York/Los Angeles), y Woodcraft Rangers que desarrolla programas educativos en 61 escuelas en Los Angeles.

Traed vuestras experiencias con vosotros, los oídos abiertos y actitud colaborativa. Equipos, materiales y comida corren de nuestra cuenta.

DIRECCIÓN
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Avda de la Constitución, 23
28931 Móstoles, Madrid
centrodeartedosdemayo@madrid.org
www.madrid.org/ca2m

INDICACIONES DE ACCESO
www.madrid.org/centrodeartedosdemayo/el_centro/ubicacion.html
Metro: Línea 12/ Pradillo
Cercanías: C5 Móstoles (23 minutos desde Embajadores)
Currently reading:
Twenty Theses on Politics (Latin America in Translation)
By Enrique Dussel
8:43 AM 
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July 6, 2009 - Monday 
The Wapping investigation invites you to Sunday sessions at Raven Row
Sundays in July, 2–4pm

12 July, 'Wapping in Reply' to the Investigation with invited guests.

19 July, 'New Composition' with sound artist Vasco.

26 July, 'Sound Institutions' with invited guests.

For further information contact chris56a@yahoo.co.uk


Raven Row
56 Artillery Lane
London E1 7LS
T +44 (0)20 7377 4300
info@ravenrow.org
www.ravenrow.org
Currently reading:
Hannah Arendt
By Professor Julia Kristeva
10:29 AM 
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July 1, 2009 - Wednesday 
In the series' fourth and final chapter, Public Record releases another wildly diverse collection of fifteen one-minute sound files from artists, musicians, and activists. In response to solicitations for submissions, the sound art archive Public Record has received a total of sixty sound recordings from Melbourne to London; from México to South Africa. From around the world, groups and individuals have responded to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor?

Contributors to the last chapter include Ultra-red's comrades Union de Vecinos from Los Angeles. British post-minimalist composer Andrew Poppy turns in a rare cut of musique concrète alongside Los Angeles radical urbanist Ava Bromberg. Sound activist William Crisp dispatches an intervention from the demolition of London's Heygate Estate. Urban geographer Ismail Farouk delivers a phonographic snap-shot from Johannesburg, and Berlin anti-racism activists Susanne Lang & Franziska Frielinghaus contribute a story of struggle against corporate globalization. Also from Berlin we hear from Panorama Bar DJ Cassy. The enigmatic electroacoustic noise-rock outfit Elders Of Zion make a surprise appearance after years of undercover activities.

Other contributions to the latest installment include U.K.-based Pablo Alvarez, Sean Burn, T Ernest Wilbey; Augusto Palma and Ilich Sabotage from Mexico; and from Santa Rosa, California's cut 'n' paste crew we have Nicholi Elwell and Ttod Hubbert's GitAr.

Throughout the four-part series, contributors have wrestled with how sound, and recorded sound in particular, might provide a basis for a social and political analysis. One can also hear in the sixty recordings a fundamental struggle to distinguish the sound of poverty from the sound of the war on the poor. Some artists have flipped the question around and turned their ears to the sounds of the poor fighting back. With one-minute sound-bites that range from microphonic documentaries to musique concrète dispatches, all four installments in the series have challenged artists and listeners alike to think through the fight against poverty according to an analysis of the ear:

What is the sound . . .
What is the sound of the war . . .
What is the sound of the war on the poor?

Public Record is the internet-based archive of the Ultra-red audio-activist organization.  Established for the distribution of work by Ultra-red members and allies, Public Record serves as an interface between the organization and its publics with free fair-use downloads of exclusive full-length albums, images, texts and video.

Currently reading:
The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War
By Gioconda Belli
Release date: 2003-10-14
10:59 AM 
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June 1, 2009 - Monday 
Ultra-red
SCHOOL OF ECHOES
Raven Row Sessions

Participants in Ultra-red's Raven Row workshop report on their investigations, on Thursday, 11 June, 6pm to 9pm.

Raven Row is located at 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS, tel. +44 (0)20 7377 4300, www.ravenrow.org

As the first official artists in residency at Raven Row, the international art collective Ultra-red have conducted a five-session workshop on sound art and activism. The sixteen participants in the workshop -- billed the Raven Row Sessions of the School Of Echoes -- came from a wide range of backgrounds as artists, musicians, political organisers, activists, and students. From session to session, the sixteen participants developed a series of critical terms rooted in their own experiences. Terms like "community transformation," "crisis" and "composition," were explored through site-specific listening, recording, and composing at three locations in London.

Thursday, 11 June beginning at 6pm at Raven Row in Spitalfields, launches the on-going and in-process installation open until 2 August. Also during the 11 June event, the three investigations of the Raven Row Sessions report to the public on the status of their collective inquiries. The event is a chance for the sixteen members of the Raven Row Sessions to celebrate their collaboration as well as invite new participation in the on-going inquiries. The first investigation will present their report at promptly at 6:30pm, the second investigation will report at 7:10pm, and the third investigation will present their report to the public at 7:50pm. All are welcome to come, listen, and comment.

Participants in the Raven Row Sessions were: Sarbaz Ahmed, Gabriella Alberti, Nelly Alfandari, Camille Barbagalo, William Crisp, Lucie Galand, Andrea Giulivi, Gavin Grindon, Chris Jones, Fozia Khaliq, Anna Kontopoulou, Robbie Lockwood, Ana Laura Lopez de la Torre, Rashmi Munikempanna, Francesco Salvini, and Paul Swann.

For fifteen years Ultra-red has used sound to investigate anti-racist organising, the struggles of migration, social housing mobilisation, and AIDS activism. This history informed the approach to sound art and organising presented in the Raven Row Sessions. Members of Ultra-red who contributed to the workshop were Elizabeth Blaney, Manuela Bojadžijev, Pablo Garcia, Janna Graham, Taisha Paggett, Elliot Perkins, Dont Rhine, Robert Sember, and Leonardo Vilchis. Ultra-red's collective residency at Raven Row was made possible in part by a contribution from The Glass-House Trust.

While in the UK, members of the group will support Ultra-red’s ongoing anti-racist work in the rural Southwest of England and early sound investigations with students and teachers in the Edgware Road neighbourhood, the latter undertaken in partnership with Serpentine Gallery.

info@ultrared.org | www.ultrared.org | www.publicrec.org

Currently reading:
The Memoirs of a Survivor
By Doris Lessing
Release date: 1988-04-12
1:29 PM 
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March 26, 2009 - Thursday 
After fifteen years of moving towards a theory and practice of Militant Sound Investigation, the sound collective Ultra-red have initiated an extended process of investigating the terms of such a practice. Titled, "School Of Echoes," this investigation will involve all nine members of the international collective in a series of phases in cities in Europe and North America.

The "School Of Echoes" began in the late months of 2008 with the nine members of Ultra-red reflecting on problematics that have arisen out of the group's work over the years. Reviewing projects from "Structural Adjustments," "The Debt" and "SILENT|LISTEN" through to "Blok70," "Rural Intavenshan" and "We Come From Your Future," members assembled fifteen themes that merit deeper investigation. In their contradictory and, even, irresolvable nature, these themes suggest both the possibilities and limits of a practice of Militant Sound Investigation.

Now the members of Ultra-red are poised to begin Phase Two of "School Of Echoes." Gathering in London over the next ten weeks, collective members have commenced a residency in the art exhibition centre, Raven Row located in the Spitalfields neighborhood. The residency will feature an in-depth investigation into the fifteen themes identified by the members of the group. Concurrent with the collective inquiry into these fifteen themes, Ultra-red will also conduct a five-session workshop with London activists, community organizers and artists into the theory and practice of Militant Sound Investigation. These Raven Row Sessions will then conclude with the presentation of an installation Raven Row that will offer a report on the status of the "School Of Echoes" project. That installation will have its public debut on Thursday, 11 June at 6:00PM in the storefront space of Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London E1 7LS, telephone +44 (0)20 7377 4300, and email; info@ravenrow.org.

Raven Row Sessions of Ultra-red's "School Of Echoes" is supported by Raven Row and the Glass House Trust. Phase Three of "School Of Echoes" is tentatively scheduled to take place in the fall in Los Angeles and Phase Four is tentatively scheduled to take place in the spring of 2010 in Oslo.

Raven Row is a new contemporary art exhibition centre run by Alex Sainsbury.

While in the UK, members of the collective will support Ultra-red’s ongoing anti-racist work in the rural Southwest of England and early sound investigations with students and teachers in the Edgware Road neighborhood of London, the latter undertaken in partnership with Serpentine Gallery.



Currently reading:
Music and Discourse
By Jean-Jacques Nattiez
7:09 PM 
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