THE AMBiENT PiNG NEWS
• 07.16.08 THE
AMBiENT PiNG presents
TEXTURES
a Special Sunday Afternoon Concert
with dSU (dreamSTATE, Sylken & URM),
Building
Castles Out of Matchsticks,
General Chaos Visuals and
more TBA soon.
Sunday
September 21st @ Textile
Museum of Canada
55
Centre Ave . S
of Dundas . E of University . Map & info here
PiNG doors open at 1.30PM . 1st set at 2PM . $6 / PayWhatYouCan

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For September, we're planning something a little different from
our usual in-club PiNG shows as we return to the Textile
Museum
of Canada's Auditorium for a Sunday afternoon concert. Come on
out and settle back into the comfy seats to enjoy the sonic and
visual textures emanating from the stage.
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There'll be soundscapes and sequencer-driven space music
piloted by dSU [Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Eric
Hopper (Sylken),
and Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE & URM)]
building on their late
80's & early 90's electronic explorations together as Radio Silence.
.
Queen of the robots, Anne Sulikowski will be Building
Castles
Out of Matchsticks as she coaxes lovely sonics from her synths
while
cooing and musing overtop exploring both extraordinary events and
the simple pleasures and boredom of her everyday life.
.
The auditorium is a large space, so who better to fill it visually
than General
Chaos Visuals, who will be bringing out their full
arsenal of projectors and light toys to turn the theatre and
the performers into a canvas for their evolving light painting.
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We're not done yet though. We will be announcing more acts
soon for this special event - so stay tuned for more details in the
next PiNG email. If you can't wait, just keep checking the PiNG
site as things will be posted as soon as they're confirmed.
Special
thanks go to Maurie Todd and the Textile
Museum of
Canada for helping us to make this happen.
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ping
things is proud to present its fourth net label release,
"Land" by Nunc Stans is a brand new and exclusive digital
EP.
A stunning work that captures the sound of Nunc Stans at a
turning point where drone-based sensibilities blend seamlessly
with melodic work to create a stunning sonic environment for the
listener to explore. Influenced by the stark beauty of Northern
Canada, Kerby has created a set of aural landscapes that inspires
and delights from the cold drones of opener "Before the Colors
Deepened", through the sparse melodies and underlying urgency
of "Journey of a Thousand Days", to closing track "Ice Field" with
it's beautiful humming tones and found sounds.
"Land" by Nunc
Stans is available for free download as a 69Mb Zip
file containing the full release in high quality 256kbps mp3 format
along with front cover and tray card art suitable for printing in both
jpg and psd formats. The music on this release is copyright Anthony
Paul Kerby, 2008 and may not be used or reproduced without the
artist's express permission. If you like the work of Nunc Stans, check
out Anthony
Paul Kerby's website where you'll be able to find
out more about Kerby's work.
New releases will be added to the ping
things site on the 22nd of
each month. In the coming months you'll be able to download
exclusive work from Ortiz, NAW, Building
Castles out of Matchsticks,
Remora and more.
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Check out the ALMOST
LiVE SERiES on the AMBiENT PiNG RADiO
podcast. Currently posted are sets by Numina, MWVM, NAW, Panoramaroid,
Remora, Resonant Drift, Salvagesound,
and URM.
Also
on AMBiENT
PiNG RADiO podcast are
these releases
from
the ping things net label: "Aqua" by Andrew
Duke,
"
The
Perfect City" by Phil
Ogison and Les
Landes
by Spatial
Correlation
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AMBiENCE Volume 3
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 2
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 1
• THE
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• PiNG
SiTE UPDATE
• ABOUT
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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 7 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. Again
this
last room no longer exists.
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.
As
local PiNGers know, the PiNG also
presents random
shows in alternative spaces such as Tom Heasley and
THE AMBiENT PiNG ORCHESTRA at the Music Gallery
in 2001, Robert Rich at Art System Gallery in
2002 and
again in 2006 at the Church of the Holy Trinity and
most
recently Troum at Le
Labo also in 2006.
Currently
the PiNG is presenting special events in various spaces
across the city instead of just in a single barspace.
Check
back here for news or become a PiNG
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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 periodically
presents concerts in
alternative performance spaces featuring ambient, chillout,
soundscape and experimental artists from around the world.
Watch this space for announcements and details.
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