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PR No. 2.06.005
Release Date: July 1, 2009

Artist: Various
Title: Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.4
Series: P.O.P.
Description: In the fourth and final installment of the series, artists and activists forty-five to sixty sound off their replies to the invocation: What is the sound of the war on the poor? This concluding chapter offers one-minute sound bites that range from microphonic interventions to musique concréte documentaries. Volume 4 features contributions by Pablo Alvarez, Ava Bromberg, Sean Burn, Cassy, William Crisp, Elders of Zion, Ismail Farouk, Gitar, Susanne Lang & Anziska Frielinghaus, Augusto Palma, Andrew Poppy, Ilich Sabotage, Starry Zafara, T Ernest Wilbey, Union de Vecinos.

PR No. 2.06.004
Release Date: March 15, 2009

Artist: Various
Title: Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.3
Series: P.O.P.
Description: In the third installment of the series, another fifteen activists and artists answer the call: What is the sound of the war on the poor? Coming from North, South, East and West, the pieces range from electroacoustic dispatches to Hörspiel miniatures. Volume 3 features contributions by Emily Abendroth, Dieter Behr & Peter Sihorsch-Jenseide, Toshiro Bishoko, Zeljko Blace, Deison, Pawan Dhall, Fax, Field fo the Neo-Futurist Collective, Hopen, I Cut People, Manrico Montero, Duncan Speakman, Kevin Van Meter & Team Colors, The Vectorist, Adern X.

PR No. 2.06.003
Release Date: February 1, 2009

Artist: Various
Title: Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.2
Series: P.O.P.
Description: Fifteen artists and activists from around the world enter their responses to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? The results range from soundbite mash-ups to sound walk documentaries. Volume 2 features contributions by Luigi Archetti, BLK w/Bear, GPV-C/E. Castro, Ellipse Elkshow, Heribert Friedl, Ryan Griffis & Sarah Ross, Kixly, kLIMEK, Pedro Rocha, Steve Stuffit, Swimming Lesson, Gerhard Schultz, Michael Trommer, X-Chris, Héctor Zárate.

PR No. 2.01.016
Release Date: November 1, 2008

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Wire Magazine (UK), November 2008
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Full-page paid advertisement announcing the release of Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.1, in The Wire (UK), November 2008, Issue 297.

PR No. 2.06.002
Release Date: November 1, 2008

Artist: Various
Title: Fifteen Sounds of the War on the Poor, vol.1
Series: P.O.P.
Ultra-red asks fifteen artists and activists to come up with a one-minute audio recording in response to the question: What is the sound of the war on the poor? The results range from field recordings, re-appropriated sounds, mini-symphonies and spoken rants. Volume 1 features contributions by Alejandra and Aeron, Knut Åsdam, Checkpoint 303, Christopher DeLaurenti, Michelle Dizon, Ashley Hunt, Jack Tactic, Anton Nikkilä, Isabelle Noël, Elliot Perkins, PSBEUYS, Jennifer Rarick, Rural Racism Project, Terre Thaemlitz, Ultra-red.

PR No. 2.06.001
Release Date: October 1, 2008

Artist: Christopher DeLaurenti
Title: Wallingford Food Bank
Series: P.O.P.
Description: Seattle phonographer and soundscape composer Christopher DeLaurenti delivers a gritty sonic document of poverty for his Public Record debut. According to the cliché, the starving artist holds a golden thread to class advancement. Does an artist persist in identifying with wealth even to the point of amnesia? This is the sound of the golden thread being cut.

PR No. 2.01.015
Release Date: July 1, 2007

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Wire Magazine (UK), July 2007
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Quarter-page paid advertisement announcing the release of The Laurence Rassel Show, in The Wire (UK), July 2007, Issue 281, p.47.

PR No. 2.01.014
Release Date: June 1, 2007

Artist: Terre Thaemlitz & Laurence Rassel
Title: The Laurence Rassel Show
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Produced for German Public Radio by musician and trans-activist Terre Thaemlitz in collaboration with Laurence Rassel of Brussel's cyberfeminist collective Constant. The album combines original and liberated music with spoken word examining the gender politics of the copyLeft. An album so cutting edge German Public Radio banned it from broadcast. Also starring Tina Horne, Pierre De Jaeger, Nicolas Malevé, Femke Snelting, Marie-Françoise Stewart, Aiko Tsuji and Wendy Van Wynsberghe.

PR No. 2.01.013
Release Date: May 1, 2007

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Wire Magazine (UK), May 2007
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Ninth-page paid advertisement announcing recent additions to the AIDS Uncanny series, in The Wire (UK), May 2007, Issue 279, p.112.

PR No. 2.01.012
Release Date: January 1, 2007

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Wire Magazine (UK), January 2007
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Half-page paid advertisement announcing the launch of Public Record, in The Wire (UK), January 2007, Issue 251.

PR No. 2.04.004
Release Date: December 8, 2006

Artist: Various
Title: The Minutes (XVI International AIDS Conference)
Series: The AIDS Uncanny
Description: For the performance of SILENT|LISTEN in recognition of the XVI International AIDS Conference, Ultra-red enlisted five Toronto-based electronic musicians. This album compiles the minutes of that performance with original tracks by Reena Katz, Scott Kerr (Kids On TV), Isabelle Noel (Miau Miau TM), Eddie Peel (Death Drive/Ultra-red), Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo), Dont Rhine (Jack Tactic/Ultra-red), and Andrew Zealley (PS Beuys).

PR No. 2.04.003
Release Date: December 8, 2006

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: The Minutes
Series: The AIDS Uncanny
Description: In this follow up to AN ARCHIVE OF SILENCE, Ultra-red analyze statements made during eight performances of SILENT|LISTEN. Crossing the US and Canada, ending up at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Ultra-red asked audiences to enter their reflections into the record on the AIDS crisis today. These are the minutes of that record.

PR No. 2.02.008
Release Date: November 2006

Artist: Union de Vecinos
Title: Plaza Mariachi
Series: Transistors
Description: This album features an edit of the original hour-long soundscape composed for the Oasis Sonoro exhibit in Mexico City by Ultra-red's Elizabeth Blaney and Leonardo Vilchis. Using the sound of mariachi musicians looking for work in La Ciudad's Bellas Artes, this composition celebrates the mariachis of Mexico and East Los Angeles as heralds of labor and the autonomy of migration.

PR No. 2.01.011
Release Date: October 1, 2006

Artist: Various
Title: Encuentro
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: In April 2006, Ultra-red convened a daylong conference on the subject of militant sound investigation at the Los Angeles alternative art space, LACE. This contribution to Ultra-red's ongoing conversations on aesthetics and politics with fifty radical artists and community organizers features special Ultra-red megamixes by Eddie Peel of Sony Mao and Ultra-red.

PR No. 2.04.002
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: An Archive Of Silence
Series: The AIDS Uncanny
Description: Since 1994, Ultra-red has deployed recorded sound in the space of political reflection, analysis and action. What action is possible when no record exists? What politics arise from a record purloined, plagiarized or presented by proxy? Reflecting on their AIDS activism, Ultra-red present an archive of site recordings, bootleg remixes and silences.

PR No. 2.02.007
Release Date: August 21, 2006

Artist: Various
Title: BLOK70:Translations
Series: Transistors
Description: The Belgrade market in Blok 70 stages a remarkable convergence of Chinese shopkeepers, war refugees and Roma deportees from Germany. Ultra-red invites five artists to compose original tracks using the sounds of Blok 70. Featuring Octex (Ljubljana), Vuneny (Mostar), Belgradeyard Soundsystem's PoS (Belgrade) and artists from Zagreb and Sarajevo.

PR No. 2.02.006
Release Date: June 30, 2006

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: BLOK70
Series: Transistors
Description: The recent expansion of the European Union into Eastern Europe has placed increased pressure on countries like Serbia to adopt new migration policies. In 2004, Ultra-red traveled to Serbia to hear from activists and migrants how those changes have impacted everyday life. Field recordings, broken beats and techno explore a landscape of precariousness.

PR No. 2.05.003
Release Date: February 15, 2006

Artist: The Speculative Archive
Title: Not A Matter Of If But When 3
Series: Documents from the Speculative Archive
Description: The third and final compilation of QuickTime shorts from this groundbreaking series.

PR No. 2.04.001
Release Date: February 1, 2006

Artist: Various
Title: A Silence Broken
Series: The AIDS Uncanny
Description: Whither queer politics? The right-wing sharpens its teeth on eviscerating AIDS-funding. The federal government conspires to constitutionally disenfranchise queers. What does it mean to claim victory at a moment when what was thought surmounted makes a farcical return? Queer electronica artists Lezzies On X (Canada), Soft Pink Truth (US), Terre Thaemlitz (Japan) and others remix Ultra-red's "Death."

PR No. 2.05.002
Release Date: October 1, 2005

Artist: The Speculative Archive
Title: Not A Matter Of If But When 2
Series: Documents from the Speculative Archive
Description: The second compilation of video shorts from this groundbreaking series.

PR No. 2.05.001
Release Date: September 1, 2005

Artist: The Speculative Archive
Title: Not A Matter Of If But When 1
Series: Documents from the Speculative Archive
Description: Public Record releases its first QuickTime movie compilations with this remarkable series. Based on The Archive's yearlong residency in Damascus, "Not A Matter Of If But When" (subtitled: brief records of a time in which expectations were repeatedly raised and lowered and people grew exhausted from never knowing if the moment was at hand or was still to come) is a three-part series of compiled video shorts documenting a time when expectations are repeatedly raised and lowered. It is a time when people grow exhausted from never knowing if the moment is at hand or is still to come.

PR No. 2.03.011
Release Date: May 1, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: The Debt
Series: The Debt
Description: In the spirit of their seminal "Structural Adjustments" album, the "The Debt" finds Ultra-red bending their collective ear to the struggles around housing once again. This time the location is the massive Ballymun housing estate in Dublin, Ireland. Ultra-red at their most electro-acoustic: contemplative, abstract, and haunting.

PR No. 2.02.005
Release Date: April 1, 2005

Artist: WR
Title: border sounds
Series: Transistors
Description: Pulled from the archives of Manoa Free University, "border sounds" traces the efforts of the WR aesthetic-political collective to map the Eastern perimeter of the EU border as it existed in the summer of 2001. Composed from field recordings and interviews, "border sounds" forces the larger question of how might soundscapes resist a "Beautiful World" tendency to inform and interrogate political process.

PR No. 2.01.010
Release Date: April 1, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Grooves Magazine (US), April 2005
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Half-page paid advertisement in Grooves (US), April 2005.

PR No. 2.01.005
Last Updated: March 15, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Articles of Incorporation Document
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Documents (including various drafts) composed on the founding of a new political-aesthetic organization out of the restructured remains of the audio activist group Ultra-red.

PR No. 2.02.004
Release Date: March 1, 2005

Artist: Various
Title: Movement for Airports Transistors Remixes
Series: Transistors
Description: Taken from "Play Kanak Attak," this single hits the dancefloor in the vein of Ultra-red's classic "A16." One part electro-house, one part electro-acoustic, "Movement" is as close to an anthem as one can imagine (or care to imagine). Guest remixes from Elliot Perkins, Belgradeyard Sound System off-shoot POS, Ultra-red and others.

PR No. 2.01.003
Release Date: February 25, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Institutional Fever: Advisory Board Conference Manuscript
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: In the process of re-forming itself into an aesthetic-political organization, Ultra-red convened a panel of collaborators and confidants. This group participated in an internet dialogue reviewing the history of Ultra-red, its purposes and praxis. Out of their conversation came questions used to draft Ultra-red's "Articles of Incorporation."

PR No. 2.02.003
Release Date: February 1, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Play Kanak Attak
Series: Transistors
Description: In 2001, audio activists Ultra-red joined forces with the German migrant network Kanak Attak. These encounters offered both groups a chance to compare notes on strategies and analysis around migrant struggles. "Play Kanak Attak" compiles the first two years of that encounter with soundscapes, minimal-house, and electro-beats.

PR No. 2.02.002
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Artist: Elliot Perkins
Title: Eurodac Express
Series: Transistors
Description: Elliot Perkins (fka Phonem) returns from a three-year hiatus with the opening chapter to his epic "Eurodac Express" project. Originally a collaboration with internationally-renowned Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam, the project follows migrant struggles against the techno-bureaucratic controls on migration in Europe.

PR No. 2.01.009
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Grooves Magazine (US), January 2005
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Half-page paid advertisement announcing the launch of Public Record, in Grooves (US), January 2005.

PR No. 2.01.008
Release Date: January 1, 2005

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Paid Advertisement, Wire Magazine (UK), January 2005
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: Full-page paid advertisement announcing the launch of Public Record, in The Wire (UK), January 2005, Issue 251, p.11.

PR No. 2.02.001
Release Date: December 1, 2004

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Play Los Jornaleros del Norte
Series: Transistors
Description: DSP desperados Ultra-red face-off with LA's Los Jornaleros. From the rehearsals of the Ranchero posse to the street corners of day laborers, the album takes in the sound and poetry of migrant struggle in Los Angeles. "Play Los Jornaleros del Norte" features a mix of minimalismo and Ultra-red's interpretation of electronic norteña.

PR No. 2.01.007
Release Date: November 1, 2004

Artist: Sony Mao
Title: Play Ultra-red
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: The agents of granular digital sound processing, Sony Mao set upon Ultra-red's "Articles of Incorporation." Mining the Ultra-red album of previously unheard tapes, Sony Mao construct a contrary history of sound as negation and possibility in forty tracks of one minute each.

PR No. 2.01.006
Release Date: October 1, 2004

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Articles of Incorporation
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: "Articles of Incorporation" features forty soundscapes, each one minute in length, excerpted from previously unheard tapes recorded over Ultra-red's ten years. Compiled, these sounds represent an alternative history of the group: A map of routes not taken, in anticipation of detours to come.

PR No. 2.01.001
Release Date: January 1, 2004

Artist: Ultra-red
Title: Advisory Board Invitation
Series: Articles of Incorporation
Description: (Graphics only.) Invitation for the formation of the Ultra-red Advisory Board to advise in the restructuring of Ultra-red from an audio activist group into a political-aesthetic organization. Included an audio CD surveying audio actions produced by Ultra-red over its ten years of activities.


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