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CONCRETE DISCUSSION GROUP presents: a meeting in Rochester's defunct subway tunnels (MUSIC/ART/LITERATURE)

This Friday (April 6th), Concrete Discussion Group is hosting a "meeting" in Rochester's defunct subway tunnels. This meeting, which will last from 8:00 PM to 4:00 AM, will feature a sound installation entitled Canvasmix by Paul Coleman of the Ossia New Music Ensemble and a performance of Andrew Colella's Eisenbach. Coleman and Colella are both currently studying composition at the Eastman School of Music. The meeting will also feature the live "installation" of art and text on the walls of the subway tunnels, as well as an exhibition of CDG's own Illuminated Manuscripts project. DJs will play through the night.

MUSIC SCHEDULE

8:00 - 9:00 PM -- DaveyDave (The Space)
9:00 - 10:00 -- Special K (a.k.a. Misterkraft) (cavernous textural sounds)
10:00 - 11:00 -- Sound Installations by PC, Andrew Colella, and B.C. Bobby. Live performance by Adam Matthes (Viola)
11:00 - 12:00 -- Dijon (a.k.a. Kind Sir) (The Space)
12:00 - 1:00 -- Adonis (a.k.a. Sensio, a.k.a. Antonio Emmanouilson) (Freestyle dub/funk set)
1:00 - 2:00 -- Sound installation and live performance (encore)
2:00 - 3:00 -- Polycarp (Komputer Skool)

ART/LIT SCHEDULE TBA

For more information, please visit: http://dijon.soulrebels.com/concretediscussiongroup

DIRECTIONS

For legal reasons, we cannot provide directions to the tunnels, nor can we provide information on how to enter them. We have, however, left many clues.

OFFICIAL CDG STATEMENT

Members of Concrete Discussion Group (CDG) plan arts-related events in the defunct subway tunnels of Rochester, NY. The mission of CDG is to promote conversations about unused or under-used urban spaces, and to think of alternative ways to occupy those spaces. Several members of CDG previous participated in Revolution Now!, (February, 2006). CDG draws inspiration from the way that Revolution Now! appropriated under-used urban spaces for a creative purposes. CDG works with local artists and musicians to foster an ongoing engagement with downtown Rochester.

We invite a broad audience into the discussion about downtown Rochester though participating in CDG events, planning, or creative contributions. The upcoming CDG event will include music and art that directly relates the subway tunnels. Some ideas include: the subterranean atmosphere of the tunnels, the material waste of a network of un-used and under-used tunnels in Rochester and/or the people who do use or inhabit the tunnels. More details about the event will be available as they occur.

We are actively soliciting artists, musicians and creative thinkers who would like to participate in our ongoing discussion.

An upcoming event is scheduled for Friday April 6, 2007.