• 05.04.13 . D. BURKE MAHONEY + ANNA FRIZ @ NAISA SPACE
• 05.14.13 . QMT + CAMERON/DAVISON + D. BURKE MAHONEY
+ GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS @ SUPERMARKET
• ping things FREE release . Live at The Ambient Ping by SEVA

THE AMBiENT PiNG NEWS

05.04.13 AMBiENT TRANSMiSSiONS • Part 1
A special presentation for Deep Wireless
in collaboration with NAISA featuring
D. Burke Mahoney + ANNA FRIZ
Sat. May 4th @ NAISA SPACE . 601 Christie St. #252
Artscape Wychwood Barns . South west of Bathurst and St. Clair
Doors open at 7:45pm . 1st set at 8:00 . $10

05.14.13 AMBiENT TRANSMiSSiONS • Part 2
A special presentation for Deep Wireless
in collaboration with NAISA featuring
QMT + Cameron/Davison + D. Burke Mahoney
+ GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
Tues. May 14th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . just south of College. Map + info here
PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

AMBiENT TRANSMiSSiONS is a special two night presentation
with New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for their DEEP
WIRELESS Festival of Radio and Transmission Art. For the
first night on May 4th, AMBiENT TRANSMiSSiONS will be in
the intimate NAISA Space for a sit down surround sound
performance with Anna Friz and D. Burke Mahoney. The
second night will be in our usual space Supermarket on
May 14th with QMT, B. Burke Mahoney and the
Cameron/Davison Duo.

. ANNA FRIZ is a Canadian sound and radio artist currently
based in Chicago, where she is a post-doctoral fellow at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the department of
Sound, funded by the Fonds de recherche Québec – société
et culture (FRQ). She received her Ph.D. in the Joint Graduate
Program in Communication and Culture from York University,
Toronto in 2011; her dissertation is entitled “The Radio of
the Future Redux: Rethinking Transmission Through Experiments
in Radio Art.” Since 1998 Anna has predominantly created
self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance,
where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work.
She also creates dynamic, atmospheric sound works for
theatre, dance, film, and solo performance that are equally
able to reflect upon public media culture or to reveal interior
landscapes.

D. Burke Mahoney . Scanning the shortwave dial for the faintest
of transmissions, D.Burke Mahoney creates compositions that
haunt and stimulate his listeners. Radio has become his instrument
of choice in creating richly textured and melodic soundscapes that
range from heavy and dense to sparse and subtle. Mahoney's
compositions encourage a wide variety of interpretation.
D. Burke Mahoney is a Toronto-based sound artist.

. QMT is a new project by Alan Bloor, James Bailey & Matthew
Poulakakis. The trio taps, rubs, scrapes and otherwise manipulates
instruments both home made & found, mostly made of metal, to
create improvised soundscapes. The results are often surprisingly
delicate and have been described as “eerie” and “oddly orchestral.”
All three are veterans of local experimental scenes and in addition
to their many solo and collaborative projects are all currently
members of improv ensemble Build To Suit.

. CAMERON/DAVISON . W.A.Davison is a multi-disciplinary
artist who has been producing various forms of experimental
art and music for over 30 years. As a composer, improvisor,
and instrument-builder Davison has performed solo (as Songs
of the New Erotics, Th W rbl r, M.Stactor, etc.), in his own
ensembles (Urban Refuse Group, Six Heads), and in various
collaborations (with members of CCMC, Nihilist Spasm Band,
AMM, MSBR, irr.app.(ext.), Nurse With Wound, and many
others). Allison Cameron performs improvised music and
creates sound environments using Casio SK sampling
keyboards/Casio saxophone/ukulele/banjo/Honeytone
amplifiers/radios/a desktop theremin/drum machine/crackle
box/cassette tapes/miscellaneous instruments & objects
amplified with a variety of contact mics/a variety of pedals
including: a homemade fuzz factory, envelope follower synth,
Digi-tech wah, and Holy Grail reverb/piano.

. GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS . Stephen Lindsey and Eric Siegerman
will be busy working their arsenal of projectable light machines to
create vibrant techno colour light paintings.

• More PiNG news coming soon.
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• the latest FREE net label release
from ping things:

Download Live at The Ambient Ping by SEVA

ping things is pleased to
announce the release of
Live at The Ambient Ping
by SEVA. Recorded in
December 2012, the latest
net release from ping things
features a truly inspired
improvised live set from
Eric Hopper, Beau Lukes
and Michael Holcer. Drifting
through a wide range of
sounds and styles Live at
The Ambient Ping finds the
trio in excellent form, an organic and fluid musical unit that drifts
seamlessly through a beautiful dreaming soundscape.

"Live at The Ambient Ping" is available for free download as a
103Mb Zip file containing the full release in mp3 format along
with artwork suitable for printing. The music on this release is
copyright Eric Hopper, Beau Lukes and Michael Holcer and may
not be used or reproduced without the artist's express permission.

Download Live at The Ambient Ping by SEVA

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the free downloadable releases from the
ping things net label and check out the
archives of the ALMOST LiVE SERiES from
the old AMBiENT PiNG RADiO podcast.
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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 LiST

A BRiEF HiSTORY OF THE PiNG!

THE 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 second PiNG decade continues with mostly-monthly shows
at Supermarket - a wonderful club with a superb sound system,
video projector, delicious meals and quality micro-brews.

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
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.

Check back here for news or become a PiNG LiST subscriber
to be kept up-to-date with details of future PiNG presentations.
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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 • Sylken

Available 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.

• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 2

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.

 

• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 1

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 Baker

Available online at ping things.

• PiNG SiTE UPDATE

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
ambient, electronic, soundscape, space, drone, psychedelic, chillout, downtempo, darkwave and experimental artists from around the world.

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