Geoff Dugan and Sean Meehan
Beneath

A concrete music performance by Geoff Dugan composed of dérive recordings from beneath New York City. This subsurface psychogeography is an immersion into an improvised architecture in sound. It will resurface to include a forgotten sanctuary beneath the Manhattan Bridge illuminated with a live acoustical performance by Sean Meehan. Under the layers of infrastructure, the architecture of the interstitial struggles to escape capitalism. This is a free performance, of course.


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Geoff Dugan has been performing, recording, and producing sonic environments since 1983. Recent projects include a binaural psychogeography recording and performance: "aberto/fechyado parque serralves" at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto and an audio psychogeographical report from New York performed at the 2002 Zeppelin Festival of Sound Art in Barcelona. Geoff runs the recording label GD Stereo that has released a series of compilation compact discs organized around psychogeography and the theory of the dérive among the various (the artists): The Architecture of the Incidental (1999) and Psychogeographical Dip (1997). Solo projects include Play in random or shuffle mode. (GD Stereo, 2001), Surface Tension (Open Circuit, 2000) and the Stomach Ache Records release Technical Comfort Formalistic Style Features (7" vinyl - 1994). Geoff is also an architect and lives in NYC.

Sean Meehan mostly uses the snare drum in a manner that sheds conventional usage and reconstructs the conceptual function of the instrument. Sean performs often both in and out of doors. He lives in New York City where each summer he and Tamio Shiraishi give a series of free concerts, which explore the unwatched and unconsidered corners of the city. He has a new CD with Sachiko M. and a new collection of printed matter entitled "field recordings" which is meant to be contemplated so as to intone and suggest musical sound and composition in the readers mind.

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