DSC 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10. 11. 12.	REF SCP BRL RES WRC A01 A02 KRO UDV A03 A04 TRX DOX	DES Ballymun Soundscapes Ballymun Regeneration Ltd Resident Forums Ballymun Womens Resource Act I: Project, Temple Bar Act II: BRYR, Ballymun Kill Radio Broadcast Union de Vecinos Act III: UCLA Labor Centre Act IV: Axis Ctr, Ballymun Compositions made from SCPs Production documents	DUR 00:59:19 00:44:10 00:38:03 00:36:33 01:06:27 01:08:13 00:58:30 00:43:56 00:57:26 01:04:15 00:44:24 --
In February 2003, Los Angeles-based electronic musicians and sound artists Ultra-red began a year-long project in the Dublin Ireland council housing estate of Ballymun. Titled The Debt, the project was a series of collective reflections that brought together residents from the public housing communities of Ballymun in Dublin and East Los Angeles' own Pico Aliso. The purpose of these encounters was to compare and contrast experiences with regeneration of social housing. This twelve-disc archive compiles audio, textual and visual materials generated as part of The Debt. Given the dramatic changes in Ballymun, this archive is an echo of one moment in time and place, filtered through a specific exchange of experiences, ideas and questions. Given the paucity of materials in Ballymun detailing the history of community and social struggles, Ultra-red present this archive as a way of giving audition to what we have come to know as The Debt.

ARCHIVE 01.SCP
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08. 09. 10.	REF A0205-01 H0331-01 Y0711-04 L0403-01 A0205-02 Y0711-08 I0402-02 P0410-01 Y0711-06 I0402-01	DES Town Centre Town Centre to WRC Sandy Hill Gardens Recco to Anna's Flat School Yard Coultry Spine Block Coultry Road Regeneration Office Anti-Social Behavior Inside 6 Coultry Gardens Top of Coultry Spine Block	DUR 06:39:06 05:29:38 07:43:38 05:59:00 04:49:38 07:23:38 07:54:00 05:01:00 07:24:12 00:38:00
Through out the development of The Debt, Ultra-red were housed at 6 Coultry Gardens in Ballymun. Furnished by the commissioning agency, Breaking Ground, the house offered a base of operations in the middle of the 20,000 member community. The house, part of a tract slated for demolition, was surrounded by Ballymun's distinctive 15-storey towers and 8-storey spine blocks. It was a landscape due for profound changes that will eventually see all the flats torn down. The acoustic experience of Ballymun was a sensual thing sculpted daily by the competing forces of what has been, what will be and the din of machinery and labour executing that transformation. This was a subject of great fascination for us as we drifted through the landscape in both its geographical and social manifestation. These soundscapes are products of those wanderings.

ARCHIVE 02.BRL
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04.	REF D0204 E0205 A0206 C0207	DES John Montague at Axis Ctr Noel Martin at Axis Ctr Eammon Fairley at BRL Anne Keating at WRC	DUR 10:58:01 10:26:38 10:57:01 11:43:00
The regeneration of Ballymun, one of the largest development projects in the EU, represents such a significant overall budget that per cent for arts money from the regeneration offered a unique opportunity for Ireland's art community. Rather than funneling money into a general fund, it was decided to found a separate public arts organisation to commission projects for the community of Ballymun. That organisation, Breaking Ground, set up a series of meetings for Ultra-red during the group's first visit. Given Ultra-red's history of opposing public housing regeneration, it was disquieting to have our first introduction to the community mediated by the perspectives of the Ballymun Regeneration Ltd. Well versed in regeneration ideology, Ultra-red were especially interested in the ways the BRL spokespeople deviated from an American context.

ARCHIVE 03.RES
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04.	REF B0206 M0404 G0326 N0407	DES Silogue Maint. Subcom Vickie McElmigott Coultry Gardens neighbors Liz Johnson	DUR 07:15:38 09:47:38 09:05:47 11:49:14
As Ultra-red became conversant in Ballymun's political structures, the group endeavoured to learn more about the role of the five Resident Forums. Composed of popularly elected resident-representatives, the Forums were initially set up to mediate between the five neighbourhoods of Ballymun and the City Council which maintains the estate. With the advent of regeneration, the Forums had become a mechanism of mediation between the BRL and residents. Some Forums functioned as the means of disseminating information from the BRL to residents. Other Forums adopted a more activist stance in relation to the BRL. These four recordings reflect Ultra-red encounters with members of four of the five Forums: Silogue Forum (track one), Poppintree Forum (track two), Coultry Forum (track three) and Shangan Forum (track four).

ARCHIVE 04.WRC
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04.	REF H0331 L0403 N0407 X0708	DES St Pappins Ladies Club Womens Studies Class at BRYR Young Mothers Class at WRC Conversation about visiting LA	DUR 10:01:38 07:49:38 09:54:02 08:42:38
Early in the development of The Debt, Ultra-red determined to develop its project following the model of community organising. One implication of this approach was that the project should make an impact on ten per cent of the overall population of Ballymun. This meant outreach to 2,000 people. As outsiders to the community, working with limited time and resources, Ultra-red made decided to form an alliance with the Ballymun Women's Resource Centre as a way of reaching more people. These recordings are made from some of Ultra-red's encounters with social groups and programs organised by the WRC or who, in the case of the St. Pappins Club, utilise WRC facilities. Track four is from a conversation with women selected by Ultra-red to visit Los Angeles. These women include Michele Gifford (Youth Worker, WRC), Liz Johnson (Member, Shangan Forum), Anne Keating (Executive Director, WRC), and Sylvia Walsh (President, St. Pappins Club).

ARCHIVE 05.A01
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07.	REF A01-01 A01-02 A01-03 A01-04 A01-05 A01-06 A01-07	DES Project Arts Centre Pt 1 Project Arts Centre Pt 2 Project Arts Centre Pt 3 Project Arts Centre Pt 4 Project Arts Centre Pt 5 Project Arts Centre Pt 6 Project Arts Centre Pt 7	DUR 09:58:00 10:04:00 10:00:00 10:02:00 10:00:00 10:00:01 06:11:33
The public manifestation of Ultra-red's The Debt took the form of five performances, or Acts. The first two Acts took place over a weekend in June in Dublin. Both events featured dialogues on the regeneration of public housing. The first Act occurred on Saturday, June 28, 2003, in a dialogue that brought together representatives from the Ballymun Women's Resource Center and three residents from the Los Angeles housing organization, Union de Vecinos. Located in the Project Art Center in Dublin's Temple Bar district, the event was titled, "Peripheral Vision: Community at the Urban Margins, Ballymun, Dublin and Pico Aliso, Los Angeles." The three residents from Los Angeles were Carmen and Walter Mendoza and Candice Monay. Representing the WRC were its Executive Director Anne Keating and Mandy Murphy.

ARCHIVE 06.A02
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07.	REF A02-01 A02-02 A02-03 A02-04 A02-05 A02-06 A02-07	DES BRYR Centre Pt 1 BRYR Centre Pt 2 BRYR Centre Pt 3 BRYR Centre Pt 4 BRYR Centre Pt 5 BRYR Centre Pt 6 BRYR Centre Pt 7	DUR 10:00:00 10:00:01 09:58:38 10:00:00 09:59:38 10:00:00 08:03:25
For Act II, Ultra-red convened the second of two public dialogues comparing experiences with regeneration in Ballymun, Ireland and Pico Aliso, Los Angeles. Hosted at the Ballymun Regional Youth Resource Centre or BRYR on Sunday, June 29, 2003, this event was titled "Leading Voices: The Legacy of Leadership in Public Housing Community, Ballymun, Dublin and Pico Aliso, Los Angeles." The round table discussion featured comments by Pico Aliso residents Carmen and Walter Mendoza and Candice Monay. From Ballymun we heard comments from Liz Johnson, John Dunne and Annie Krene (from the St. Pappin's Ladies Club).

ARCHIVE 07.KRO
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06.	REF KRO-1 KRO-2 KRO-3 KRO-4 KRO-5 KRO-6	DES Kill Radio 0912 Pt 1 Kill Radio 0912 Pt 2 Kill Radio 0912 Pt 3 Kill Radio 0912 Pt 4 Kill Radio 0912 Pt 5 Kill Radio 0912 Pt 6	DUR 11:10:57 11:08:19 10:34:38 11:04:69 10:40:00 03:42:00
Over the course of nine weeks each Friday afternoon from August 8 to October 3, Ultra-red presented a one-hour radio broadcast as part of The Debt. Aired on the Los Angeles-based internet radio channel KillRadio.org, these broadcasts offered a weekly review of interviews, site recordings and electronic music produced from the Ultra-red's visits in Ballymun. On Friday, September 12, 2003, a special live broadcast was presented featuring five women from Ballymun who had come to Los Angeles as part of the collaboration between Ultra-red and the Ballymun Women's Resource Center. Interviewed by Ultra-red members Dont Rhine and Elizabeth Blaney, the five guests from Ireland were Anne Keating (Executive Director, BWRC), Niamh McGuire (Board member BWRC), Michele Gifford (Youth worker, BWRC), Sylvia Walsh (President, St. Pappins Ladies Club), and Janice Broe (Member, St. Pappins Ladies Club).

ARCHIVE 08.UDV
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05.	REF Z0909UV1 Z0909UV2 Z0909UV3 Z0909UV4 Z0909UV5	DES Chayo Carmen M Carmen C Manuela Candice	DUR 12:18:74 07:25:65 06:14:47 12:04:00 05:45:00
A high point of the five Dubliners' visit to Los Angeles in September 2003 was to at last tour the Pico Aliso housing projects in East Los Angeles. After months of hearing about the community from Ultra-red, the women could finally visit with Pico Aliso residents and experience the neighbourhood themselves. While much smaller than the sprawling community of Ballymun, the public housing of Pico Aliso appeared to the women plagued by enormous problems, not the least of which was an adversarial housing authority that cared little for preserving existing social relations and community integrity. These themes were repeated several times during their visits with five members of the Union de Vecinos, the resident-activist group founded to advocate for fair and democratic housing policy in Los Angeles.

ARCHIVE 09.A03
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06.	REF A03-01 A03-02 A03-03 A03-04 A03-05 A03-06	DES UCLA Labor Centre Pt 1 UCLA Labor Centre Pt 2 UCLA Labor Centre Pt 3 UCLA Labor Centre Pt 4 UCLA Labor Centre Pt 5 UCLA Labor Centre Pt 6	DUR 03:45:47 21:09:68 09:57:41 07:39:22 14:18:60 00:25:01
For Act III, Ultra-red staged a performance conversation on Public Housing in Los Angeles and Dublin Ireland. Joining the group on stage were Ultra-red's five guests from Dublin Ireland: Anne Keating (Executive Director, Ballymun Womens Resource Center), Niamh McGuire (Board member BWRC), Michele Gifford (Youth worker, BWRC), Sylvia Walsh (President, St. Pappins Ladies Club), and Janice Broe (Member, St. Pappins Ladies Club). Held at the UCLA Downtown Labor Center on Friday, September 12, 2003 at 6PM, audience members included Los Angeles housing activists, artists, and friends of Ultra-red. The performance was also the first time most of the Irish women heard Ultra-red's mix of live voice processing, site recordings and electronic music. Functioning much like a dress rehearsal, the performance gave the women a chance to work out publicly their reflections on Los Angeles housing in comparison to Ballymun.

ARCHIVE 10.A04
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07.	REF A04-01 A04-02 A04-03 A04-04 A04-05 A04-06 A04-07	DES Axis Centre Pt 1 Axis Centre Pt 2 Axis Centre Pt 3 Axis Centre Pt 4 Axis Centre Pt 5 Axis Centre Pt 6 Axis Centre Pt 7	DUR 10:00:01 10:02:00 10:00:00 09:56:00 10:00:01 10:00:00 04:05:53
On Saturday, October 11 at the Axis Art Centre in Ballymun, Ultra-red presented its fourth Act. Billed as "An evening of reflection and strategy in sound," the event was in keeping with Ultra-red's tradition of social housing performances that combine experimental electronics, video projection and community celebration. Split between Ultra-red and the Ballymun Women's Resource Center, the evening began with a reception in celebration of the St. Pappin's Ladies Club. This was followed by a performance reuniting Ultra-red with the five women who traveled to Los Angeles in Act III (see Archives 7, 8 and 9). Then came a presentation of work commissioned by the WRC inspired by the site-recordings of Ultra-red. The WRC commissioned local Dublin artists, David Frew and Chris Nash to develop a sound piece in collaboration with a group of teen girls. This project was facilitated by Michele Gifford, a youth worker with the WRC and participant in The Debt. The evening concluded with local punk band, The Clams and a fortuitous coincidence of DJ-ed music and birthday partying in the AXIS pub.

ARCHIVE 11.TRX
TRK 01. 02. 03. 04. 05. 06. 07. 08.	REF DTRK-01 DTRK-02 DTRK-03 DTRK-04 DTRK-05 DTRK-06 DTRK-07 DTRK-08	DES Value Form of Participation The Debt (Themes) Beneath the Green Temporary Amenities Against a Natural History of Wind Return (Beyond the Pale) Interior Designs One Door Down	DUR 03:43:00 05:45:20 07:15:60 06:55:48 07:53:07 06:41:00 05:42:38 00:14:28
In subsequent months following their last visit to Dublin, Ultra-red revisited the soundscapes from Ballymun. Reflecting on the ten soundscapes, processing the sounds, articulating electro-acoustic technique with the source recordings, and composing tracks, accompanied a larger process of evaluation. That evaluation has been a challenge and initiated a much larger transformation for Ultra-red itself. According to the group's objectives, The Debt produced less than successful results. Yet, on the level of researching the psycho-acoustic geography of a community destined for radical Ð and largely unknown Ð changes, The Debt sounds a clear warning: in Ballymun, there is no blueprint for dignity, no master plan for an experience of community.

ARCHIVE 12:DOX
FIL 01: 02: 03: 04: 05: 06: 07: 08: 09: 10: 11: 12: 13: 14: 15:	DES Original Proposal Worksheet 1 Worksheet 2 Worksheet 3 Worksheet 4 Worksheet 5 Worksheet 6 ACT 1 and 2 Poster ACT 3 / The Debt Radio Flyer ACT 3 / UCLA Performance Flyer ACT 3 Visit to LA Diary ACT 4 Flyer ACT 4 Performance Program Essay Archive Index
From the original proposal draft made in November 2002 to the completion of the post-production in January 2004, the development of The Debt journeyed through many stages, phases, acts and tactics: In some respects, this is an archive of artists encountering the limits of site-specificity as a practice when knowledge itself refuses a change of soil. It's a highly problematic notion given the histories of the US in its current imperial phase and Irish post-colonialism. Further complicating such an evaluation is the history of exploitation in the art's relationship to communities of struggle. When an artist's political objectives fail, can something of value be recovered when it is those objectives that give the artist her or his legitimacy in a community defined by struggle? These questions and many others can be charted in this archive of development and promotion materials generated through-out the course of The Debt.