THE AMBiENT PiNG NEWSThe PiNG celebrates DRONE DAY 2025
with dreamSTATE + DRONE:KLUB 47
. a Community Drone Gathering
@ Trinity-St. Paul's United Church
427 Bloor St West, Toronto
Saturday May 24th . 2pm - 4:20pm ET . FREE
May 24th will be the 11th Anniversary of the first Drone Day (back in May 2014) and THE AMBiENT PiNG is presenting an afternoon double-bill at the beautiful Trinity-St. Paul's Church to celebrate!
Electronic soundscapers dreamSTATE have faithfully performed for The Drone each year and they will be bringing their latest dronescapes and atmospherics. Following their set, DRONE:KLUB47 will assemble to weave a community sound tapestry for the occasion. This is a free event.
https://www.trinitystpauls.caBeginning at 2PM, dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie Todd) launch a deep ambient drone journey into the church's soundspace. Listen to dreamSTATE's performance at the very first Drone Day at:
https://dreamstate.bandcamp.com/album/drone-day
dreamSTATE Home: https://www.dreamSTATE.to
Sylken Music: https://sylken.bandcamp.comNext, the PiNG invites you to experience or to participate in DRONE:KLUB:47 - a live community drone session. Droners, Friends and Audience are all welcome.
* Please note that Trinity St. Paul's is not air-conditioned - so you may wish to dress lightly. Bottled water (especially in reusable bottles) is welcome in the Sanctuary - but no other food or liquids (including coffee). There will be washrooms (including an accessible one) and a fountain available. *
We request a particularly respectful sonic offering from each Droner for this special event as we'll be sound-weaving in a sacred space during the Doors Open Toronto event and church-staff and visitors with their families will be coming and going throughout.
There will be less mixer inputs for this gathering (about a dozen mono or 6 stereo) so we may need to trade off after a while. Please bring your own long cables with 1/4" male jacks (or adapters to 1/4" male) to connect with the mixer. There will be AC power and some power bars. 3 large tables will be available to be shared and there's comfy chairs.
Loadin / Setup - 1:15pm to 1:45pm
After the dreamSTATE set (which begins at 2pm), we'll make the final connections and sound tests and set sail... returning to silence by 4:20pm. We'll need to pack up and be out of the Sanctuary by 5pm.
BTW - If you're droning, bringing headphones (to hear your part of the ensemble drone more clearly) & a tuner (if you're analog) would be a plus.
We'll be recording for potential free album releases like these:
https://droneklub.bandcamp.comFind more info about the Drone Day worldwide celebrations at: https://droneday.org
• LiVE PiNG 2014 11 25 with
URM + General Chaos Visuals
URM performs ambient electronic soundscapes and sequencer
driven Berlin School electronics to the light painting projections of
General Chaos Visuals live at THE AMBiENT PiNG in Toronto's
Array Space.All music was generated in real time utilizing a virtual studio of
synthesizers, effect units and step sequencers. Light paintings
were also projected and created in real time utilizing hand
painted gels and analog projectors.As the show was captured with a single camera there's a lot
chaotic compositing of the Chaos Visuals and light paintings
which makes it a very psychedelic experience - like a
concert being held inside a lava lamp.
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• A BRiEF HiSTORY OF THE PiNG
• SADU LiVE @ THE PiNG with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS - DVD
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 3
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 2
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 1
• THE PiNG REMEMBERS DAVID PRITCHARD
• PiNG SiTE UPDATE
• ABOUT THE PiNG
• JOiN THE PiNG LiSTTHE AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community of
audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists. The PiNG
presents live multimedia performances featuring ambient, electronic,
soundscape, chillout, trip hop, dream pop, downtempo, space,
darkwave, drone and experimental artists from around the world.As longtime PiNGers know, the PiNG has had many homes for its
regular series AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS. Beginning in 1999 with
3 spots on Augusta Avenue in Kensington Market: Garvey's, Cafe
Vernon and Po Boys Club. None of these places exist any more.Some of you have fond memories of our shows at Po Boys in
2000, but our next residence from 2001 - 2004 was a favourite
spot for many - Club Nia at C'est What! A fabulous beer
selection, delicious food (many still miss their Shepherd's pie),
a quality stereo PA system and very cool staff, who
came to understand what we were about - especially
our fave bartender Andrea. What a shame that
they had to close that room.Following a warm home at Nia was a very cold fall/winter
at the Gladstone Hotel (as they were still early in their
renovations and had not yet installed their heating system),
and then, for a year and a half (2005 - 2006), in the massive
mothership of a room, Tequila Lounge/Hacienda.After 7 years of running AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS as a
weekly series, the PiNG switched the format in the summer
of 2006 and produced AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS as a
monthly event at the DRAKE UNDERGROUND until
early in 2008.June of 2008 through July 2009 the PiNG alternated between two
very comfortable arts-friendly clubs, The Renaissance Café and
The Central, for our regular monthly in-club series. Sadly in May
2009, The Renaissance Café retired from the local bar scene.For its Tenth Anniversary in August of 2009, THE AMBiENT PiNG
returned to Augusta Avenue for a special celebration at Supermarket.
Performers booked included some of the first artists to play the PiNG
in 1999 and a first-ever live performance by a new collaborative
project – to represent the artistic cross-pollination often
inspired at the PiNG. The PiNG continued with mostly-monthly shows
at Supermarket - a wonderful club with a superb sound system,
video projector, delicious meals and quality micro-brews - for 5 years
until its Fifteenth Anniversary in August of 2014.2014 also saw a number of PiNG concerts at the wonderful
Array Space in the Queen West area just south east of
Trinity Bellwoods park.April 2015 through to July 2016, the PiNG's live mostly monthly live concert series was hosted at Ratio, a wonderful intimate artist space on the south side of College west of Spadina.
The PiNG celebrated its 17th Anniversary at the Burdock Music Hall in August 2016 before settling in back to where it started in Toronto's Kensington Market at Handlebar in September of 2016. Longtime PiNGers will remember that Handlebar is in the same space as Southern Po Boys and the Po Boys Club where the PiNG hosted many shows back in 2000 including dreamSTATE's first Drone Cycle of 12 monthly shows covering the 12 note chromatic scale. As looping is a big part of the music we present, it seems only fitting that we are now looping our presentation spaces too and are currently hosting the monthly PiNG concert series at Handlebar.
The PiNG also presents random shows in alternative spaces such as
Tom Heasley & THE AMBiENT PiNG ORCHESTRA at the Music Gallery
in 2001, ambient pioneer Robert Rich at Art System Gallery in 2002, at
the Church of the Holy Trinity in 2006 & St. George the Martyr Church (Music Gallery) in 2010. Also in 2006, Troum at Le Labo & SONiC TAPESTRiES featuring a wide variety of PiNG artists at The Textile Museum of Canada for Nuit Blanche 2006 and TEXTURE a special Sunday afternoon concert at The Textile Museum in September 2008 featuring a spectrum of artists.In the spring of 2010, the PiNG presented Toronto's first week-long
Ambient Music Festival which featured ambient legend Robert Rich.In 2016 the PiNG launched DRONE:KLUB, an ever evolving community of drone sound artists who gather and perform together to expore drone music while sharing their technology and techniques.
In Dec. 2016, monthly DRONE:KLUB Gatherings started at the Roland Inspiration Centre . 001-1179 King Street W. Toronto (Liberty Village) underground at the S/W corner of King St W and Fraser Ave (by Lamport Stadium). Droners, Friends and Audience are all welcome for these FREE community drone immersion experience so bring your instrument, wires & stand to join the drone:meld.
In August 2019, THE AMBiENT PiNG celebrated 20 years of live ambient and drone events.
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• LiVE PiNG DVD • SADU LiVE @ THE PiNG
with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
(A PiNG THiNG DVD CONCERT RELEASE)
A multi-camera concert video
of SADU performing live with
General Chaos Visuals on June
13th 2006 at THE AMBiENT PiNG.Experience the PiNG at home with
this spaced out psychedelic DVD
of eye and ear candy. Chill to the
ambient soundscapes and grooves
of SADU while basking in the visual
glory of GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS.SADU is Eric Hopper (Sylken),
Terrence O'Brien (Anomalous
Disturbances) & Jamie Todd (URM, dreamSTATE & NOiNO.) GENERAL
CHAOS VISUALS is Stephen Lindsey
and Eric Siegerman.Video produced and directed by David Sloma of Rockin' Films with audio
production by Jamie Todd. Presented in DVD (NTSC) widescreen format
complete with 5.1 Surround in dts and Dolby Digital.Available online at ping things.
• PiNG AMBiENCE 3 • STRiNG THiNGS
Featuring music from:
AmbientTV
Anomalous Disturbances
Aidan Baker • Matt Borghi
Cybertarist Paul E. Royes
Michael Diamond • Diatonis
dreamSTATE • Mark Mahoney
Phil Ogison • Matthew Poulakakis
Styrohead • SylkenAvailable online at ping things.
PiNG AMBiENCE 3 is the third CD in an ongoing series sponsored by
THE AMBiENT PiNG. The compilation features tracks by thirteen unique
and talented guitar soundsculptors, most of whom have performed at
the PiNG.PiNG AMBiENCE 3 began as STRiNG THiNGS, a personal project by Eric
Hopper of Sylken, to bring together onto one CD the ambient guitarists
he has come to know and admire in recent times. It became apparent that
releasing STRiNG THiNGS as PiNG AMBiENCE 3, a PiNG community project
would respond to the demand for more PiNG music and provide a venue for
these guitar artists to weave their sonic webs.Thirteen diverse and intriguing soundscapes are offered by Toronto
guitarists Aidan Baker, Joe G (Styrohead), Eric Hopper (Sylken),
Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Phil Ogison (TDITD), Matthew Poulakakis
(Solipsystem), Paul Royes (cybertarist), Arnold Sprogis (Ambient TV);
by Terry O'Brien (Anomalous Disturbances, Vancouver); and by our
friends from the USA, Matt Borghi (Portland OR), Michael Diamond
(San Rafael CA), Mark Mahoney (The Amaranth Signal, Knoxville TN)
and Stuart White (Diatonis, Los Angeles CA).Various tracks were sculpted by using only guitar / looper / effect meldings,
while other tracks include synthesized sonics and effect treatments in
concert with guitar. A palette of moods and textures are created where
the ambient guitar performs as the lead voice, evoking some wonderfully
vibrant and emotive atmospheres where the listener's imagination
can wander.The new PiNG AMBiENCE 3 • STRiNG THiNGS compilation CD of
spacious ambient guitar sound sculptures is available at ping things.The second in an ongoing series, a compilation of music from
AMBiENT PiNG performing artists. Available at the PiNG from
PiNG THiNGS.
Featuring music from
dreamSTATE + Susanna Hood,
Alpha Wave Movement,
Sylken, Paul Royes,
Anomalous Disturbances,
earotica, Solipsystem,
karmafarm, Aidan Baker,
Styrohead, URM, Sara Ayers
and James Johnson.Available online at ping things.
The first in an ongoing series, a compilation of music from
AMBiENT PiNG performing artists.
Featuring music from
Ambient-TV, cheryl o &
Andrew Aldridge, Wally Jericho,
dreamSTATE, Pholde, URM,
Mara's Torment, grain, Cymbl,
Styrohead and Sylken.Click here for an extensive interview
with Scott M2, Jamie Todd and
Rich BakerAvailable online at ping things.
The PiNG SiTE has been updated with a few new pages
(events2006b, events2006c and events2006d)
added in the Events section featuring photos from the March
through May 2006 AMBiENT PiNG shows.Featuring performance photos of:
• Aidan Baker (solo) and ARC
• Michael Keith and Friends
• Interweaver and NOT_digital
• Vessel = Menno Krant + The Devil in the Design and
dreamSTATE with The Devil in the Design + Lynn Harrigan
and General Chaos Visuals
• WHIPPOORWILL (Chris Gartner, & Great Bob Scott)
and POLMO POLPO (Sandro Perri)
• PHOLDE and Greg Lauzon
• Collapsible Frequency Flow (CFF) and
Nightingale (Jesse Baird & Dafydd Hughes)
• GEARS of SAND Mini-Tour featuring
Ben Fleury-Steiner with Mikronesia, William Fields and
Aidan Baker with PHOLDE
• Robert Rich Live at The Church of The Holy Trinity
• Arms Full of Sound - "Journey To Ambientia - Spring"
• RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 1 - A special presentation for
Deep Wireless in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art
featuring Debashis Sinha with Ben Grossman and Kathy Kennedy
plus JOUST - John Oswald and Scott Thompson
• RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 - A special presentation for
Deep Wireless in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art
featuring NOiNO (Jim Bailey, Matthew Poulakakis & Jamie Todd)
• URM
•Gnostic Rocket (Steve Barber) and Morgan Doctor
• THE AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community
of audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists.THE AMBiENT PiNG presents live multimedia performances featuring
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