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THE AMBiENT PiNG NEWS

WHAT'S HAPPENING?

Hi again Everyone,

We're always running into someone asking "What's happening
next for the PiNG?" Well next is now as the PiNG begins
presenting special events in various spaces across the
city instead of just in a single barspace.

Our e-mail list is the best place to get the news in
a timely fashion, so if you're not already on the PiNGLiST
just send an email to ping@theambientping.com with
Subscribe in the subject line and you'll be in the loop.

Thanks, as always, for your interest and support
for Ambient and Experimental musics.

Now here's what happening at the PiNG:

• COMiNG SOON 05.08.08
Deep Wireless Trans-Local Mash-up

Thursday May 8 @ 8pm ($5) THE AMBiENT PiNG in collaboration
with New Adventures in Sound Art and angelusnovus.net
presents the Deep Wireless Trans-Local Mash-up
@ Gallery 1313 (1313 Queen St W), IndexG (50 Gladstone Ave.)
& the NAISA space (103 Beaconsfield Ave)

To commemorate the 5th anniversary of the Deep Wireless radio art
compilation CDs, it's a Trans-Local mash-up with angelusnovus.net
(@ IndexG), iNSiDEaMiND (@ Gallery 1313) & NOiNO (@NAISA space)
plus more. These Trans-Local performances will be streamed to and
transmitted from the NAISA space in Toronto and broadcast live in
New York and on the net at: http://www.free103point9.org

For this event, each of the artists will be spinning and manipulating
the content from the Deep Wireless CD Series. The sounds created
by angelusnovus.net (Monica Clorey, Emilie LeBel, Henry Ng,
David Ogborn, Jason Stanford, Chris Thornborrow, Hector Centeno,
Troy Ducharme and others) from IndexG will be mixed with the sounds
of iNSiDEaMiND from Gallery 1313 and then beamed into the
NAISA space where the NOiNO aggregate (James Bailey,
Matthew Poulakakis and Jamie Todd) will heap on the
final mash to the mix before it's transmitted to the
world via free103.9.

Come on down to Queen West West / Parkdale, wander about
and pop into all three of our live spaces to experience live radio
art in the making.

If you can't make it down, tune in on Thursday at 8pm EST to
http://www.free103point9.org

More info on Deep Wireless 2008

• IMPORTANT PiNG NOTiCE - Feb. 2008

Please note that the January 29th 2008 show was
the last regular AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAY as
The Drake Hotel will no longer be opening its
Underground venue on Sunday or Tuesday nights.

Sadly this means that effective February 2008, we will
be putting the regular monthly PiNG club shows on hiatus.

If you have any suggestions about places that might
be suitable for PiNG events then please feel free to
email us venue names and/or addresses care of
bookings@theambientping.com

Remember that you can always chill with
AMBiENT PiNG RADiO Podcasts which will be
featuring the ALMOST LiVE series of exclusive
performances by some of your favourite PiNG
artists unavailable anywhere else! Currently posted
are the ALMOST LiVE sets by Panoramaroid
(a new project by Matthew Poulakakis of
Salvagesound and Noino), NAW, Resonant Drift,
Remora, MWVM and URM.

Check this space or join THE AMBiENT PiNG EMAiL LiST
for announcements of future events in various venues
and news about all things PiNG. (if the above link doesn't
work for you, just send your name and email to
ping@theambientping.com with Subscribe in the subject line.)

• NEW 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.

• More PiNG news and more PiNG
shows are coming soon.

Watch this space to stay tuned or
JOiN THE AMBiENT PiNG EMAiL LiST
(if the above link doesn't work for you, just send your name and email
to ping@theambientping.com with Subscribe in the subject line.)

• A BRiEF HiSTORY OF THE PiNG
• AMBiENT PiNG RADiO
• PiNG SiTE UPDATE
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 3
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 2
• PiNG AMBiENCE Volume 1
• THE PiNG REMEMBERS DAVID PRITCHARD
• 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 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.

Check back here for news or become a PiNG LiST subscriber
to be kept up-to-date with details of future PiNG presentations.
(if the above link doesn't work for you, just send your name and email
to ping@theambientping.com with Subscribe in the subject line.)

• AMBiENT PiNG RADiO iS NOW LiVE

At long last, thanks to the efforts of our
good friend rik of ping things and mara's torment,
AMBiENT PiNG RADiO is LiVE and just a click away.

Check out music from the PiNG featured along with other
ambient, chill, triphop, downtempo, darkwave and
more from around the world playing now on
AMBiENT PiNG RADiO.

click here for more info • click here to hear

• 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

• 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.

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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