Redux A collaboration between Mark Cetilia and RS-232 (Joe Cantrell), Redux exists as an exercise in destruction and recombination. The nature of technological growth is not unlike evolution: industry creates, destroys and recombines technologies in a mad rush to provide consumers with the best-equipped tools for survival. But by marginalizing objects that are considered obsolete, consumers and industry alike ignore the potential capabilities these objects maintain. Redux circumvents this process by creating new life from the objects of the recent past, using capabilities of the present. Redux is the cut that cures. We give new life to dying technologies which speak to us of their lives as castaways, and of a bygone era, just out of reach. RS-232 RS-232 (Joe Cantrell) has been active in the performing community of the Los Angeles Area for about 10 years and has shared the stage with such varied artists as; The Secret Machines, The Midnight Movies, Fog, O.S.T., and Jeremy Drake. His work spans numerous musical disciplines from jazz to indie rock to experimental music and incorporates differing instruments and techniques such as re-purposed devices, tape destruction and computer generated sounds, as well as more traditional instruments. RS-232's music appeared on Simballrec's 45 Seconds of... CD, and he will be releasing an album of minimal dub tracks on the blankartists lable in september, 2006. As an installation artist, RS-232 takes inspiration from the incessent acceleration of technology and media and the waste it produces. The more inseverable they become, the less our lives are defined by "genuine" interactions and experiences. With Mark Cetilia, he performed at the 2005 CEAIT festival held at REDCAT in the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as well as having a sound installation at Soundwalk 2005. more at 2-3-2.com >> Mark Cetilia Mark Cetilia is a media artist who is interested in exploring control systems that are intuitive as well as experimental in nature. A large portion of his work is devoted to creating custom applications for live audio/visual performance. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound creation, Cetilia's work frequently employs such strategies as feedback loops and genetic algorithms, and is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. He is the co-curator of the internationally recognized CTRL+ALT+REPEAT festival, which has featured performances by the Penderecki String Quartet, Frances-Marie Uitti, Steve Roden and Damion Romero. Cetilia has performed at such venues as REDCAT (Disney Hall), the Orange County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, the Knitting Factory (LA), Levontin 7, and numerous venues throughout Southern California and the East Coast. He is a member of the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of a 2006 Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project and the electroacoustic duo Mem1, recipients of a Harvestworks artist residency for the creation of a new Surround Sound piece, Sonodenron. In Summer 2007, they traveled to Tel-Aviv to create a visual component for this work with video artist Liora Belford. Their second full-length album, Alexipharmaca, is published by Interval Recordings. more at mark.cetilia.org >>