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Brendan Dougherty (b. July 30, 1978, Philadelphia, PA) is a American composer and musician.

Music
After studying music performance, he became involved in improvised music. As a part of the Meicht Group he performed regularly at the Knitting Factory and collaborated with local Philadelphia musicians Bobby Zankel and Matthew Mitchell.

Since moving to Berlin in 2002, he has collaborated with Guido Henneböhl and Keith O'Brien in the group Idiot Switch, along with performing with local improvising musicians Axel Dörner, Adam Linson, Andre Vida, Billy Bang, and composers Richard Barrett (composer), Jeremy Woodruff and Paula Matthusen.

In 2004 Dougherty co-founded the KGB trio along with Kim Cascone and Guido Henneböhl. The group has released three records.

Since 2009 Dougherty plays drums in Tony Buck's Projekt Transmit.

Theater and Dance
Dougherty has created three works with choreographer Jeremy Wade; Throwing Rainbows Up, I Offer Myself to Thee and There is No End to More. Wade requested his help in curating the Politics of Ecstasy Festival at the Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Berlin in 2009.

In 2010 he started a collaboration with Meg Stuart with resulted in Violet (2011).

Selected Discography

 * pim and bom (Scrapple Records 2001) with Dan Mohr
 * Feigner (Scrapple Records 2001) with Matthew Mitchell and Aaron Meicht
 * ''CARDBOARD KEYBOARD (2004) with AB Duo
 * ''Cleft (Utech Records2005) with the Sepia Trio (Seth Meicht and Akira Ando)
 * ''Pogie Tunebook (Scrapple Records 2008) with AB Duo

with The Meicht Group

 * The Meicht Group (Scrapple Records 1998)
 * Dig the Sound Live(Scrapple Records 2000)
 * Loud Like Hemlocks (Scrapple Records 2001)

with KGB Trio

 * Swiss Pharmaceuticals (Utech, 2005)
 * Smoke on Devil's Mountain (Scrapple Records, 2008)
 * Noise Forest (Aural Terrains, 2009)