THE
AMBiENT PiNG PRESENTS
ROBERT RICH • LiVE
at HOLY
TRiNiTY
SATURDAY APRiL 29th 2006 • 8PM
Church of the Holy Trinity • Trinity Square, Toronto
south-west
of Dundas & Yonge • behind
the
Eaton Centre
Doors
open at 7.30PM • Performance at 8PM
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Ambient
music pioneer Robert Rich gives his second-ever
Toronto performance on April 29th, in a solo concert of
his distinctive instrumental electronic music -- playing
flutes and lap steel guitar, along with analog synthesizer,
keyboards
and
computers.
Featuring
selections
from
his
new
CD
"Electric
Ladder"
as well as forays
into earlier works
and improvisation,
his music will be
accompanied by
a
film by
artist
Daniel
Colvin,
as
well as custom
laser projections.
Since
releasing his
first album in 1982,
Robert Rich has
released
over two
dozen
more,
helping
to define
the genres
of ambient music,
dark-ambient,
tribal and trance.
Rich uses home-made
acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal
tunings,
and computer-based signal processing to sculpt his unique
sonic environments,
an approach dating back to
1976
when he built his first synthesizer,
at the age of 13.
His all-night Sleep Concerts, performed
in the 80s,
became legendary in the San Francisco area and
beyond.
In
2001
he released the 7-hour
audio DVD
" Somnium", a studio
distillation of the Sleep
Concert
experience, and possibly
the longest continuous piece
of music ever released.
His two collaborations with
Steve Roach, "Strata" (1990)
and "Soma" (1992),
both charted
for several months in Billboard.
Robert
Rich is without a doubt one of the most
fascinating electronic musicians of our time. This
rare
Toronto appearance (in the beautiful setting
and great acoustics
of the Church of the Holy
Trinity) promises
to be a treat!
As
an added bonus, arrive at 7.30PM to experience
dreamSTATE's waveforms quadraphonic
soundscape
installation which will be playing before and between sets.
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Robert
Rich website
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Rich Photographs
Robert Rich Sound Files
THE
AMBiENT PiNG PRESENTS
ROBERT
RICH • LiVE at HOLY
TRiNiTY
SATURDAY APRiL 29th 2006 • 8PM
Church of the Holy Trinity • Trinity Square, Toronto
south-west
of Dundas & Yonge • behind
the
Eaton Centre
THE
AMBiENT PiNG presents live
performances by
the
finest ambient, chillout, improv and
experimental
music
artists
from Toronto and around the world.
Every
Tuesday evening THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS,
a weekly social sound/art
event, at HACiENDA • 794
Bathurst Street at Bloor.
(NW corner, upstairs, across from the Bathurst subway)