Upcoming Events


About This Calendar

This calendar compiles creative music events around Pittsburgh, both hosted by Pittsburgh Sound Preserve and not. We also do show announcements every other Monday at the Open Improvisation Lab.

Want us to list your event? Contact us here.


Jul
6

XENHARMONIC Music Summer Workshop

2025 Xenharmonic Summer Workshop!

Place: Gesundheit Institute, Hillsboro, WV (home of our 2011, 2012 and 2019 events)
Dates: 6-20 July 2025
Lodging, Food, and Session: $2000--value exchange and financial aid can be discussed; write to summercamp@untwelve.org
Website: https://www.patchadams.org/course/xenharmonic-music-summer-camp/

We're an experienced team who have hosted 10 like events dating back to 2008, which explore a unique, non-institutional, and almost neo-anthropological approach to microtonal tuning and the harmonic imagination.

Many attendees have felt their worlds change and their networks grow.

In summer 2024 we had a mini 4-day camp that was exciting and replenishing for attendees, but since losing our 2020 event to the pandemic, we've been seeking the momentum to hold a full camp. This year, we believe we have it.

Our present course of action: find out who is coming; what projects/tech/interests they are bringing; and thus see what we've got. Expect abundant demos, coaching/project development, and sing-alongs with xenharmonic achievers.

The point is as much to see each other, revel in our shared joy in xeno-tuning, and enjoy community and the outdoors, as to get anything specific done... though fascinating projects and recordings often have a way of taking flight.

And some just keep going from there, with awesome results:

  • Hark Ye, Music Lovers, 2019 EP incubated at past camps:

  • Microtonal cover song compendium, Stephen Weigel:

  • Mirage for string trio by Nicholas Osborn:

  • Nature's First Green Is Gold, vocal round by Danny Newman-Lessler:

So here are our two requests:

1) Add the save-the-date to your calendar, to begin squaring this opportunity to your other summer commitments.

2) If you become sure this is an event that would be great for you, don't be shy to APPLY (&). Your expression of interest need not become a firm commitment until April 4, but seeing the list of likely attendees and their interests is what begins to bring this event into focus, so those who say yes earlier are influential.

Best for a year full of bright creativity, for which dark times are ultimately no match,

Bruce, Chris, Jacob, and Thomas

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Jul
9

SWEET ABYSS w/ Gag Reflex, Vani-T, Heather Harper, Bella Figlia

https://arcane.city/events/sweet-abyss-w-gag-reflex-vani-t-heather-harper-bella-figlia

SWEET ABYSS w/ Gag Reflex, Vani-T, Heather Harper, Bella Figlia

GAY PSYCHEDELIC VIBES & MORE

WEDNESDAY JULY 9 / 7-11PM / $5–$20 ALL AGES AT @banthateabar 5002 Penn Ave

Pittsburgh sonic weaver & vocalizing extraordinaire @bellafiglia777 will be conducting a live experience of fluidity, voice, & rhythmic beats w/ @ca11.11una for a debut performance at Sweet Abyss inbetween entrancing selects by Gag Reflex & Vani-T

BELLA FIGLIA, ELIZABETH JOAN HARRIS, IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY, GENRE- FLUID ARTIST AND SOUND DESIGNER

Using piano, guitar, found sound from her own field recordings, Ableton, and her classically trained voice, elizabeth creates expansive soundscapes with expressive pop melodies. bella figlia extracts the divinity from the mundane, fuses the grotesque to the holy, and finds the sensual in the spiritual.

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Jul
11

Communal Psychomagic Ritual: B. Dumbauld / Yotzeret Sheydim

https://www.facebook.com/share/16izfED8aP/

B. Dumbauld / Yotzeret Sheydim

COMMUNAL PSYCHOMAGIC TIRUAL

In Three Parts

Persad Center

5301 Butler St, Suite 100

Jully 11, 7pm

free

Required Admission:

A single thought, rumination, obsession, compulsion, dead name, personality trait, toxic relationship, anxiety, fear, or unhealthy attachment to dispel

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Jul
13

Foundation Series #19

Foundation Improvised Music Series

Every 2nd Sunday, 7pm

Bantha Tea Bar, 5002 Penn Ave

$10-20 suggested donation

No one turned away for lack of funds!

July 13th lineup:

Ethan Isaac / Danny Fratina

Sheer Anxiety

Jay Rauch / eli namay / Caleb A. Smith

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Jul
17

Tough Pill #48

Tough Pill is a creative music and performance series held primarily at The Government Center, third Thursdays of Every month in Pittsburgh. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners while also expanding the scope of the experimental art audience. It's not always this, but it's always good... so always come!

Tough Pill 48: July 17th, 2025

$10-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds!

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Jul
5

Skeletonized, Wiring, Main Area, Histrionic

https://arcane.city/events/skeletonized-wiring-main-area-histrionic

Skeletonized, Wiring, Main Area, Histrionic

JULY 5 AT BANTHA TEA BAR, 5002 Penn Ave

kame house takes on @banthateabar for the first time with a stellar lineup of bands, including @histrionictheband , @skeletonizedpgh , joined by @wiring____ and @justmainera on tour. lock in bridge the gap

DOORS @ 7, $10 COVER

All Ages

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Jul
4

BLOODRAVE III w/ Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren

https://arcane.city/events/bloodrave-iii-w-nowhere2-run-rita-lukea-visciousswishes-arie-cole-slow-danger-rob-chilldren

BLOODRAVE III w/ Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren

goth, industrial, freak shit, multimedia rave

friday july 4th. 9pm.
Spirit, 242 51st Street Pittsburgh

21+ $25


Nowhere2Run, Rita Lukea, Visciousswishes, Arie Cole, Slow Danger, Rob Chilldren
fire breathing, cage dancing, with tantalizing tigers
light install by projectile objects

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Matmos and How Things Are X PJ Roduta at The Government Center
Jul
4

Matmos and How Things Are X PJ Roduta at The Government Center

Matmos
How Things Are x PJ Roduta

07-04-2025 at 8pm $15
The Government Center
715 East St, Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Tickets - https://events.humanitix.com/matmos-pj-roduta

Experimental/electronic legends who have released music on Matador & Thrill Jockey as well as touring/production work with Bjork

Matmos - https://matmos.bandcamp.com/music

How Things Are x PJ Roduta
https://howthingsaremade.bandcamp.com/
https://bandcamp.com/pjroduta

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Jul
4

Lylyth EP Release Party (All proceeds benefit Casa San Jose)

https://www.instagram.com/p/DLib4iQxV5y/?img_index=2

The Rose Bowl Presents:

Lylyth “Fight Back” EP Release Party

Fourth of July @ Little Giant (100 Asteroid Way, Pgh, 15210)

7pm / all ages / $10-20 sliding / all proceeds benefit Casa San José

Live Music:

Lylyth (queer punk / alt rock)

GLITCH - Binghampton, NY (rap rock)

EYECANDY (hard rock / metal)

THE BOOK CLUB (ska)

+ Piercings + Flash Tattoos

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Jul
3

FOLK MUSIC [NATE WOOLEY/CHRIS CORSANO/CHES SMITH] with BEN OPIE and CHIFFCHAFF TRIO + PATRICK BREINER

https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/tcrps-prsnts/folk-music-nate-wooley-brillobox

Thursday July 3rd 2025

tcrps prsnts

an evening of experimental electro-acoustic music

featuring

FOLK MUSIC

[NATE WOOLEY - trumpet, amplifier, CHRIS CORSANO - drums, clarinet, feedback, and CHES SMITH - drums, sampler, electronics, percussion]

with

BEN OPIE

and

CHIFFCHAFF TRIO + PATRICK BREINER

[Trē Seguritan Abalos, Ricki Weidenhof, Caleb Gamble]

8:30pm

$20 at the door /$15 advance

(no one turned away for lack of funds)

21+

Brillobox

4104 Penn Ave.

Pittsburgh, PA 15224

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Jul
2

Banjo Club

https://alleghenyelks339.weebly.com/banjo-club.html

Banjo Club* in the Elks Lodge Allegheny Room on Wednesdays
Doors at 7pm, Band starts at 8pm
Food 7:30 - 9:30pm
Free Admission  

400 Cedar Avenue, 15212

Improve Your Wednesdays With the Pittsburgh Banjo Club.   The Elks Lodge on the North Side is filled with banjo music, singing, polka dancing and people of all ages

* Not an Elks hosted Event

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Jun
29

The Transition of Things

new rooms showing art in pittsburgh—come check out TTOT, The Transition of Things (thetransitionofthings.com), in its first instance, sunday june 29, 2025, from 3 to 4 pm—dm @romanantopolsky on iG for address or email pittsburghsoundpreserve@gmail.com

five sets of work: Joella Clove, Carl Fuermann, Trever Hadley, Roman Antopolsky, Jay Rauch

electronics, tapes, flute, clarinet, cello play’d and soun’d by trē seguritan abalos, Dittocrush, Joshua Malave, Jay Rauch

come by and check the website for more info!

https://thetransitionofthings.com/

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Jun
29

Effects Pedals Workshop for Wind & Brass Players

https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/little-giant/effects-pedals-workshop-for-wind-brass-players

Bring your horn and join flutist Kaleem Kheshgi to test and try a variety of effects pedals in this 2-hour pedal playground workshop!

Kaleem will open with a brief description of the basics of using a microphone, overcoming signal impedance issues, planning your signal path, and the available effects pedals to try.

After the overview, attendees will have ~45 minutes to move between several mic & pedal stations to experiment with various pedals and equipment made available by Kaleem, Little Giant Studios, and other generous peers. 

There will be a break and time for Q&A while the stations are disassembled.

After the dissassembly, attendees will have the opportunity to collaborate to pick and choose pedals to make new stations, and to continue experimenting for the remainder of the workshop. 

Attendees are welcome to bring their own gear to let others try, but there's no requirement to bring anything but an instrument.

Address: 100 Asteroid Way, Pittsburgh, PA 15210, (Loading dock at the corner of Asteroid Way & Manton Way)

Parking: Public lot at Asteroid & Manton Way (diagonally opposite Little Giant), Dollar Bank lot on Manton Way, Little Giant’s remote lot (at the end of Asteroid Way by the church), Street parking on Industry Street

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Jun
27
to Jun 28

Pittsburgh Noisefest

https://pittsburghnoisefest.com/About.html

Pittsburgh Noise Fest will be held at Little Giant Studios on June 27th and 28th, 2025.
Doors at 4pm

Regular Two day passes available now!
$50

Buy tickets here:
http://cleanertapes.ticketleap.com/pittsburghnoise

LINEUP:

PHARMAKON

https://pharmakon.bandcamp.com

COMPACTOR
https://compactor.bandcamp.comSTCLVR

https://stclvr.bandcamp.com/

PCRV

https://pcrv.bandcamp.com

Richard Ramirez's
AUTOPSY EXPERIMENT

https://deathbedtapes.bandcamp.com/album/televised-death

WHITEPHOSPHOROUS

https://whitephosphorous.bandcamp.com

HUMAN FLUID ROT
https://humanfluidrot.bandcamp.comBISON SQUAD
https://woodroomcollective.bandcamp.comJANNA LEE

JANNA LEE

https://jannaleemusic.bandcamp.com

GYNA BOOTLEG
https://gynabootleg.bandcamp.comPAIN CHAIN & NQISE COLLAB SET

https://pain-chain.bandcamp.com

FARRAH FAUCET

https://farrahfaucet.bandcamp.com

FUCK TELECORPS
CHOP CHOP CHOP
CHOP CHOP CHOP CHOP

https://chop7times.bandcamp.comZILMRAH
https://zilmrah.bandcamp.com

WHITEY ALABASTARD

https://figurerecords.bandcamp.com/album/perdition

DRAOIDH
https://orbtapes.bandcamp.com/album/calamity-of-man

VIATOR
https://viator.bandcamp.com

7D
https://notforcommodity.bandcamp.com/

AETHER
https://aether42.bandcamp.com

TFFNI

https://tffni.bandcamp.com/

SLACKING
https://slacking.bandcamp.com/

FOREST ALTAR
https://seanematzus.bandcamp.com/music

SUPPORT UNIT & SCARLET DIVA COLLAB SET
supportunit.bandcamp.com
https://thomaspuopolo.bandcamp.com/music

NIKU DARUMA
https://nikudaruma.bandcamp.com

SHE WALKS CROOKED
https://shewalkscrooked.blogspot.com

ECHO LIGHTWAVE UNSPEAKABLE
https://echolightwaveunspeakable.bandcamp.com

NEGLIGIBLE WOUND
https://negligiblewound.bandcamp.com

VOIDWELLER
https://voiddweller000.bandcamp.com

LUCITE SPINE
https://lucitespine.bandcamp.com

MOTHERLESS FUCK
https://motherlessfuck.bandcamp.com

ESTELLE
https://estelle-estelle.bandcamp.com

TERRA HOSTILIS
https://knucklecrosser.bandcamp.com

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Jun
26

Wolf Eyes (Michigan), Orgone Archive, Cloning, Slacking + Nightglare

https://arcane.city/events/wolf-eyes-orgone-archive-cloning-slackin-nightglare

Wolf Eyes, Orgone Archive, Cloning, Slackin + Nightglare

Thursday June 26th at
Wood Street Galleries 💫 601 Wood St.

doors open at 7pm
all-ages
$10 - $20 donation
no one turned away for lack of funds

All Ages

tcrps presents:
An evening of electronic sound + image
Curated by @edgarumtcrps

Featuring live performances by:

WOLF EYES [Michigan] @wolf_eyes_official

THE ORGONE ARCHIVE

CLONING @slopmachine

SLACKING @jrlslacking

with entrance & interstitial sounds by NIGHTGLARE @marzsipan

Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust
(2nd Floor)
601 Wood St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222
USA

For thirty-one years, Wood Street Galleries has been a vital platform for innovative and experimental art, offering unique exhibitions and boundary pushing programs that engage the local community.

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EVERDARK MIDSOMMAR RAVE
Jun
20
to Jun 21

EVERDARK MIDSOMMAR RAVE

FRIDAY, JUNE 20TH
UNDER 40TH STREET BRIDGE 9 PM - 3 AM
$10 NOTAFLOF
Lux Lucet in Tenebris
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Azrael - @djazrael_
- (Techno)
Cecropia - @everyone_i_fuck_is_gay
- (Experimental Ambient / Noise)
djentsen_ - @djentsen_
- (Techno / Jungle)
Dylan - Alynment - @produced.by.alynment
- (Minimal / Deep House)
Psychostasia - @psychostasia_pgh
- (Acid Techno)
CosineVi - @viviantanygin
- (Atmospheric Breakbeat / Jungle)

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Tough Pill #47 - Microplastique (Chi)//Vicky Davide + Collective//Luke Farakas & Corey Hackathorn
Jun
19

Tough Pill #47 - Microplastique (Chi)//Vicky Davide + Collective//Luke Farakas & Corey Hackathorn

Tough Pill is a creative music and performance series held primarily at The Government Center, third Thursdays of Every month in Pittsburgh. Tough Pill seeks to create space for practitioners while also expanding the scope of the experimental art audience. It's not always this, but it's always good... so always come!

Tough Pill 47: June 19th, 2025

$10-15 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds!

(flyer by Vicky Davide - @musicbyvix / @89vicky )

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Microplastique (Chicago)

Ben Zucker:

pocket trumpet, j horn, melodica, toy piano, harmonica, percussion, sound effects

Molly Jones:

soprano saxophone, flute, alto flute, percussion, sound effects

Josh Harlow:

toy piano, melodica, percussion, flutes, sound effects

Adam Shead:

wood blocks, snare drum, log drum, cowbells, banana bells, handbells, desk bells, elephant bells, shepherds bells, goat toes, splash cymbal, almaglocken, crotales, gongs, glockenspiel, bird calls, flutes, sound effects

https://irritablemysticrecords.bandcamp.com/album/blare-blow-bloom

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Vicky Davide + Collective

world premier of "Ode to Pittsburgh Urbanism."

Andre (Flute)

Caleb (Piano/Flute)

Steve (Chair),

trē (electronics)

Vicky (flute/original score).

@musicbyvix

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Luke Farkas & Corey Hackathorn

https://ofmusicandmind.com/2019/08/12/making-meaning-skeletonized-on-cannibal-cop/

https://simplisticscientists.bandcamp.com/album/idea

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Jun
19

Suroor Hassan (Memphis) / Sherry CD-ROM / Cereza Online

Hyperpop Princesses 2: Great Lakes Edition:

Suroor (Memphis) coming to Pittsburgh, PA featuring local support from:

SHERRY CD-ROM

CEREZA ONLINE

Live at Pierogi Palace (DM @ pierogi.palace on iG for address or email pittsburghsoundpreserve@gmail.com.)

Thursday June 19th

doors at 7, show at 8

$10

Born in Karachi and now based in Memphis, Suroor’s music can best be described as industrial hyper pop but draws influence from shoegaze, Sufi eastern classical, vaporwave, Bhangra, alt-R&B, riot grrrl, UK drill, digital hardcore, spoken word poetry, among others.

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Jun
16

THAT LIKE THIS debut album release with Your Elephant’s Cousin

THAT LIKE THIS is a Pittsburgh-based improvised music collective led by drummer Corey Hackathorn. This ever-changing cast of players will gather at Poetry Lounge to celebrate the release of their debut record, This is the Grip.

Relying on the beauty and ingenuity of "‘The Group’, and working always to serve the power of ‘The Moment’, THAT LIKE THIS smashes together palettes of sound and genre in real time. Anything in possible, from heavy groove, dub, noise, rock, free jazz, and beyond.

Opening set by experimental electronic duo, Your Elephant’s Cousin (Hellcat Sneer and Taker fka Darren Moore).

June 16

7-10pm

$5

21+

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Jun
13

ILLUSIONS [dark dance party] w/ LILAC/WEB, NONSITE, Rachel Ruckus, Cutups

https://arcane.city/events/illusions-dark-dance-party-w-lilac-web-nonsite-rachel-ruckus-cutups

ILLUSIONS [dark dance party] w/ LILAC/WEB, NONSITE, Rachel Ruckus, Cutups

Friday June 13th 2025
$10
9PM
at Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave

21+

ILLUSIONS

a night of
synth punk, dark italo, gothic wave,
industrial ebm, witch house

live sets:
LILAC/WEB
synthpunk / splatter pop
https://lilaccybercrust.bandcamp.com/

NONSITE
industrial techno collision
https://nonsite.bandcamp.com/

MSHR
ecstatic sensory zones & custom light sculpture
https://www.mshr.info/

dj sets by:
RACHEL RUCKUS
https://www.brutalismpgh.com/

CUTUPS
https://soundcloud.com/cutups/sets/illusions

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Gravity Series: Bussy Kween Power Trip // Genital Shame // Farrah Faucet
Jun
13

Gravity Series: Bussy Kween Power Trip // Genital Shame // Farrah Faucet

Friday, June 13th, 8p at Roboto Project, Gravity Series! We are happy to host our dear friends from Chicago in Bussy Kween Power Trip!! Farrah Faucet and Genital Shame will be hitting as well. $10-20 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds!! (If you'd like to throw some cash in advance so we make sure our friends on the road have a little something, venmo @eli-namay).

@bussykweenpowertrip

@genitalshame

@farrah.faucet.noise

@mr_roboto_project

@pittsburghsoundpreserve

@tawngs

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Jun
11

Sweet Abyss w/ Sir E.U., DJ Chelle, Carrie Sours

Sweet Abyss w/ Sir E.U., DJ Chelle, Carrie Sours

two of the Midatlantic’s freakiest freaks & rogue innovators

WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 / 7-11PM / $5-$20 SLIDING SCALE ALL AGES AT @banthateabar 5002 Penn Ave Pittsburgh

Sweet Abyss returns to the magnetic cocoon of Bantha Tea Bar with two of the Midatlantic’s freakiest freaks & rogue innovators DJ CHELLE + SIR EU 🫣🫢🤭 @chellejoestar @sire.u These two bring a special pizzazz to all they do, whether it’s being a purveyor ov cosmic slut jackin disco mutations, an agent of chaos in our broken world, or on the cutting edge of diabolical eclectic & out of body soundscapes amidst violence - all facets of this thing we know as TRANSGENDER DANCE MUSIC 🩷😼🤓 EU will be gracing us with a live set of danceable beats & kinetic wordplay, while Chelle will meld your body to the rhythm & peel it off again like sticky icky flypaper 🪰📃💦 Resident DJ Carrie Sours will bring her signature Moody Bitch Disco selections to the esoteric confines of Bantha Tea Bar

Sweet Abyss is an event to center people that run afoul of societal expectations playing a wide variety of fun, strange, rhythmic sounds to dance or move their minds to. Dance to all kinds of synth-wave, trip hop, dub, disco, & electronic explorations. Hosted by residents Kiernan Laveaux, Malzof, Davis Galvin + Carrie Sours

GAY PSYCHEDELIC VIBES
COSMIC BEATS
ESOTERIC LOUNGE MUSIC
& MORE!!!

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Jun
11
Jun
10

Bloodrot, Slowdanger, Burnt-Feathers, Johnny Arlett, Mercy Clinic

https://arcane.city/events/bloodrot-slowdanger-burnt-feathers-johnny-arlett-mercy-clinic

Tuesday Jun 10th 2025

Show 7:00 PM

Bloodrot, Slowdanger, Burnt-Feathers, Johnny Arlett, Mercy Clinic

noise, performance art, ambient and more
ConcertbyCleaner Tapes
Bantha Tea Bar5002 Penn Ave Pittsburgh
All Ages$10/ $15

tues june 10th
noise, performance art, ambient and more

Bloodrot
(dagger wound x kwami winfield)
https://dagger-wound.bandcamp.com/
https://kwamiwinfield.bandcamp.com/

Slowdanger
Burnt-Feathers
Johnny Arlett
Mercy Clinic
https://mercyclinic.bandcamp.com/

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