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• 11.03.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
SPUTNiK 2 LAUNCHiNG LAiKA featuring
Beta Cloud + NAW + The Sales Department
+ GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
Tues. Nov. 3rd @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . just south of College. Map + info here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Beta Cloud . Beta Cloud aims to span the sonic ground between
avant/improv/instrumental performance and ambient/drone/dj sound
installation. All compositions are performed improvised in real time.
Noise, hiss, and dynamic peaks, sub and supersonics are intentional
and controlled to ensure a maximum lo-fi listening experience. The aim
of Beta Cloud is to provide intensity, relaxation, positive aggression,
and a sense of passionate response to all listeners.

NAW . Montreal ex-pat naw (Neil Wiernik) who currently calls
Toronto his home, began composing electronic music in 1988 with
explorations in audio art and experimental music. Neil's interest in
sound and technology has lead him to a continued questioning and
refinement of audio tools and modes of production resulting in
experimentation with altered instruments, modified devices, and
custom software environments. Neil's music could be described
as warm, atmospheric, and cinematic electronic music. The sound
design of naw is firmly grounded in the rich traditions of dub studio
culture but can also be weighed alongside formal contemporary
composition. His music was described in "The Wire" as having
" ...the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the murk
and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Neil has released
music on various labels including noise factory records and on
elevation recordings for his most recent project whisper room.

In addition to his recording career Neil is an accomplished curator
and digital media artist, he has shown work in a variety of traditional
and non-traditional spaces since the late 1980's. His projects have
included works in video, radio, print, and internet diffusion as well
as other non-gallery spaces including derelict buildings, billboards,
pirate airwaves, and public space. Neil has presented projects at
the Finland Contemporary Museum, ISEA, Subtle Technologies
Conference, La SAT, The Medusa Complex, Mutek Festival and
The Music Gallery. When Neil is not occupied with audio/visual
musings he steps into his co-managing editor role on vagueterrain.net
an online digital arts quarterly and is a member of the board of directors
for MusicWorks magazine. His online HQ is www.phoniq.net

THE SALES DEPARTMENT . The Sales Department is MD Matheson
who performed last at the PiNG in the C'est What/Club Nia days as
Beef Terminal. The music of The Sales Department departs from
the sonic and effects laden guitar work of Beef Terminal as there
is a heavier electronic feel to his music now, focused on an emotional
and mental connection with the music, through classic IDM rhythmic
structures and ambient soundscapes that ultimately work as time
machines. As with Beef Terminal, the music is still designed to reflect
life in the urban and suburban landscapes. The dichotomy of the messy
city and the clean cut lawns of the suburbs. This is music for travelling between opposing worlds. The Sales Department has recently released
an new album Measured Life.

. General Chaos Visuals . The Chaos guys (Stephen Lindsey and
Eric Siegerman) will be back to light up the PiNG with their unique,
compelling and mind bending light paintings.

Watch Sputnik 2 Launching Laika featuring Beta Cloud
+ NAW + The Sales Department + General Chaos Visuals
At SyncLive.com from the 11.03.09 AMBiENT PiNG @ Supermarket

• 08.18.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
DECADE! THE PiNG's 10th ANNiVERSARY
featuring WALLY & CJ JERICHO + KALTE
+ dreamSTATE + GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
Tues. Aug. 18th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . just south of College. Map + info here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Wally & CJ Jericho . On August 17th 1999, Wally Jericho brought
his horns and other musical toys out to perform at the very first PiNG.
Now, 10 years later, we're returning to the street where it all started,
Augusta Ave. in Kensington Market, so we've invited Wally back
to kick off our second decade. Wally will be performing with a new
generation - his son, CJ Jericho on guitar.

. Kalte . Deane Hughes of Akumu and rik maclean of mara's
torment are pleased to present their collaborative ambient/abstract
project Kalte as part of THE AMBiENT PiNG's 10th anniversary
celebrations. The music of Kalte crosses a range of electronic
sub-genres including zero-bpm, musique concréte and deep
ambient to produce dense and eerie soundscapes. Using the
process of improvised tonal manipulation found on their releases
"The Lanthanide Series" (Stasisfield, 2008) and "Glaciations"
(Dark Winter, 2009), Deane and rik will be sharing Kalte's musical
vision of isolation and darkness in a live setting for the very first time.
Also in celebration of the PiNG's 10th, Deane is releasing his new
DVD from AKUMU, "Tapeten: Video Anthology 2005-2008."
The DVD is a collection of experimental and abstract videos spanning
3 years of AKUMU's visuals, re-mixed in 5.1 surround sound and
available for the first time at the PiNG! For more information about
Kalte and to download exclusive 'net only releases, please visit www.kaltemusic.com

. dreamSTATE . Electronic soundscape artists Scott M2 and
Jamie Todd of dreamSTATE played the third PING event on
August 31st, 1999. They began curating THE AMBiENT PiNG in
January 2000 and after presenting hundreds of PiNG concerts
across the city are very proud to perform at the PiNG's Tenth
Anniversary. Invited by rik of the ping things label to release a
new album for the occasion, dreamSTATE are currently finalizing
"A Decade Dreaming", a selection of soundscapes recorded live
at their PiNG performances throughout the last 10 years. Perhaps
you were at some of those shows. Please join dreamSTATE again
as they present a set of old and very new works for 2009.

. General Chaos Visuals . Stephen Lindsey and Eric Siegerman
have long defined the visual style of the PiNG with their unique
analog light paintings. They are also the artists who hold the record
for most PINGs played. We are thrilled that General Chaos will be
returning again to illuminate this event.

• 07.14.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG
presents STORMiNG THE BASTiLLE
featuring KINDER ATOM + SYNÞ
+ GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
Tues. July 14th 2009 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block west of the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. KINDER ATOM . Since 1993, KINDER ATOM have been one of
few groups in the electronic music scene defining their own unique
sound within many spectrums. Their warm organic flavours return
to the PiNG to tempt your senses and soothe your soul as their
deep electro, funky, dreamy and gentle ambient sounds fill
your ears.

. SYNÞ . Live, solo percussion with a backdrop of electronic
and environmental soundscapes. SYNÞ will feature a suite of
eight short electroacoustic pieces that use an exotic collection
of percussion instruments and handmade digital tracks:
1. Synpship Launch - Introducing the thorn's vibratory
experimental plan.
2. Sophie Was Here - Feline-inspired soundscape from a
day in September 2008.
3. Vibix - Live interaction with bowed vibraphone loops.
4. Vitamin BX20 - Classic reverb with bell sound decays.
5. La Bastille - Solo electric violin replicated to
orchestral dimensions.
6. Cicada Dads - Insect vibrations with mikrophonic enhancements.
7. Jeju 6:57 a.m. - Return to the waterworld at sunrise.
8. Synpship Re-entry.

. GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS . Throughout the evening, the
unique evolving light paintings of General Chaos Visuals will
provide us with mesmerizing eye candy projected onto a
live canvas.

• 06.23.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
dancing or leaping or diabolical chants
featuring THE DEVIL IN THE DESIGN
w/special guest LORNE DAVID THOMSON
Tues. June 23rd 2009 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block west of the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. THE DEVIL IN THE DESIGN . Freshly flown in from another space,
Phil Ogison returns with a live version (really live) of his new 'live'
studio release, Six Ways To Undo The Horizon. As Phil describes it,
"Basically it's just me, the guitar, and mod pedals. The whole project
is a 'back to basics' live improvisation thing, a more experimental
ambient expression. Me talking to the guitar and the guitar
talking back to me."

. LORNE DAVID THOMSON . After a decade of travel and living in
South East Asia, Lorne returned to Toronto in August of 2008 and
began playing with the psychedelic/dub/jam band Harold as their
keyboardist. For his debut solo PiNG performance, Lorne will perform
semi-improvised soundscapes and atmospherics laden with melody
on a variety of analogue and digital synthesizers and devices.

• 05.27.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
RADiO iN AMBiENCE a special presentation
for Deep Wireless in collaboration with
New Adventures in Sound Art featuring
Kristen Roos with Anna Friz + Nilan Perera
Wed. May 27th 2009 @ THE NAISA SPACE . Artscape Wychwood Barns . 601 Christie Street . Studio #252
south of St.Clair and Christie and west of Bathurst - map here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

THE AMBiENT PiNG and New Adventures in Sound Art present
RADiO iN AMBiENCE as part of the Deep Wireless festival at the NAISA
Space in the Artscape Wychwood Barns at 601 Christie Street, Studio #252.
The Artscape Wychwood Barns are located on the east side of Christie Street
just 2 blocks south of St. Clair West and few blocks west of the St. Clair West
Subway. This is a great chance to have a look at this cool new art venue. The
cozy concert setting of the NAISA Space will allow for an intimate
affair to catch our musical friends Kristen Roos, Anna Friz and
Nilan Perera play with and bend the airwaves.

. Kristen Roos is an artist whose approach to creating sound art usually involves
a translation, or change, from one state to another. Objects normally used to bring
information in a particular way are repurposed, and reconstructed into new vibrating
forms. These temporary structures hope to inspire infinite interpretations for the
objects and spaces that make up the world around us.

Ferry Crossing Interpreted & Vinegar Factory One by Kristen Roos
and Anna Friz. This performance will consist of two fifteen-minute pieces.
The first is based on a score that Kristen created from a collage of field
recordings gathered on Vancouver Island, Cortes Island and the ferry
between Cortes Island and Quadra Island. Together they will recreate
this Ferry Crossing using a theremin, radios, and various amplified objects.
The second piece originates from a performance at the Vinegar Factory
in Vancouver, for bowed fire bells, amplified wire brush, tape recorder,
theremin, harmonica, kazoo, and radios.

. Nilan Perera is a sonic explorer and improviser whose work expands the language
and techniques of experimental electric guitar performance. In his unusual approach
to the guitar, Perera utilizes preparations of assorted paraphernalia such as swizzle
sticks, paper clips, metal brushes and the like, as well as feedback and a variety of
electronic effects.

• 04.30.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG
presents THE CRUELLEST MONTH
featuring Flowers Of Hell + Beta Cloud
+ General Chaos Visuals
Thurs. April 30th 2009 @ The Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Avenue . north side of the Danforth,
2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway - map here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Flowers Of Hell . Based in London and Toronto, the Flowers Of Hell
are a trans-Atlantic experimental orchestra who explore the intersecting
points of classical & blues-based musical forms. Built around timbre-
to-shape synaesthetic visions, their April 2009 CD & LP 'Come Hell
Or High Water' features collaborators from the Patti Smith Group,
John Cale’s band, Spiritualized, Broken Social Scene, & others. Pete
‘Sonic Boom’ Kember of Spacemen 3& E.A.R. has mentored them
through their two albums, and after catching a number of London
shows, Kevin Shields had them open for My Bloody Valentine last fall.
With an eight member line up, they will be eschewing their regular set
for a special AMBiENT PiNG performance of ‘Swings And Roundabouts’,
a semi-structured/semi-improvised work lasting 30 - 40 mins. The piece
is a journey through layers of drones rising, falling, & evolving, while
strings, horns, & woodwinds exchange solos overtop, interspersed
with feedback guitar, orchestral drums, singing saw, and
various tremeloed instruments.

. Beta Cloud is C.Pace; a western classical and jazz educated
performer. Beta Cloud aims to span the sonic ground between
avant/improv/instrumental performance and ambient/drone/dj sound
installation. All compositions are performed improvised in real time.
Noise, hiss, and dynamic peaks, sub and supersonics are intentional
and controlled to ensure a maximum lo-fi listening experience. The aim
of Beta Cloud is to provide intensity, relaxation, positive aggression,
and a sense of passionate response to all listeners.

• 03.25.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG
presents A SPRUNG SPRiNG
featuring Wally Jericho + ruzan orkestar
Wed. Mar. 25th 2009 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block west of the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Finally the snow has melted up here in the great white north so
for our first show of the spring we're heading back to The Central
to bring you someone new as well as welcoming back another
PiNG original.

. 8.30 . Wally Jericho is the original PiNGer as he was the 1st
performer at the 1st PiNG way way back in August of 1999. As
usual, Wally's been bursting with creativity lately and is busting
to break out his regularly evolving rig of portable yet powerful
sound toys to treat us to a sampling of the musical ideas which
have recently arrived at the Jericho Station. We're expecting
lots of looping fun as the man with the horn and so many
other instruments brings his magical sounds back to the
PiNG stage.

. 9.45 . Ruzan Orkestar is a local toronto band which evolved from
the ashes of an old solo project. Renoir (Egin Kongoli) has in its
second year formed into a six-piece collective now compromising
of Egin Kongoli, Stefan Ho, Cydney Clark, Calvin Young,
Patricia Auchterlonie, and Gabriel P. Ruzan's many influences
range from bands belonging to the "post-rock" and ambient genres,
classical composers, to hardcore bands from the eighties and the
underground hardcore bands of the nineties.

• 02.26.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG
presents FREEZE AVOiDANCE
featuring Ortiz + quasiMODAL
(cheryl o, Eric St-Laurent & Steven Sauvé)
Thurs. Feb. 26th 2009 @ The Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Avenue . north side of the Danforth,
2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway - map here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Ortiz blends found sounds, bubbling static, synthesizer malfunctions
and guitar noodling, exploring melancholy melodies and lonely notes
to create ghostly soundscapes that evoke dub and folk music in equal
measures. His live performances take the listener on a dreamy ride,
recalling pastoral landscapes and haunted woods, crescendos building
and receding as gentle guitars and far-away vocals drift in and out
of the mix. Ortiz has self-released several albums of material, in
addition to releases on Vague Terrain and ping things, which
can be downloaded at ortiz.ca

. Joining us for the second set will be the return of quasiMODAL
featuring cheryl o, Eric St-Laurent & Steven Sauvé for an
exquisite evening of cello, guitar and keys feed through a variety
of efx and loopers. Joining quasiMODAL on drums for this gig will
be Daniel Gaucher, a recent recruit to Toronto who has spent
the last 8 years deeply involved in various music communities in
Vancouver.

• 01.28.09 THE AMBiENT PiNG
presents WARMiNG WiNTER CHiLL
featuring io with a. mark (mbira)
+ URM + General Chaos Visuals
Wed. Jan. 28th 2009 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block from the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

We're going to warm things up and chill with some old friends
for our first show of the year as we return to the cozy space
of The Central located at 603 Markham St. which is just south
of Bloor and one block west of the Bathurst subway station.

. io: live with a. mark (mbira) will be doing a set of some live
looping, percussion, and knob twiddling for an evening of
electroacousticworldmusicsciencefictionrhythmtonehypnosis

. URM emerges from studio hibernation with the laptop full
of sound making gadgetry to lay down a set full of drones
and soundscapes mixed in with some Berlin School
sequencer driven pulse to warm things up a little.

. General Chaos Visuals will do their part too as the heat
emanating from their light painting lamps will also bring
some warmth and beauty to the room.

• 11.29.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
PSYCHEDELiC PiNG 1 featuring HAROLD
with ZOOIDS opening and digital image
projections by SUBDUCTION CURRENT
Saturday November 29th @ The Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Avenue . north side of the Danforth,
2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway - map here
PiNG doors open at 8:30pm . 1st set at 9:00 . $6

. For November, we're doing something a little different from our usual
nights of ambient soundscapes by crossing over into the realms of
psychedelia and prog rock to space out at the very first
PSYCHEDELiC PiNG.

. ZOOIDS . opening the evening will be a set by Malcolm Lewis
who will be performing on electric banjo processed through a
variety of effects.

. HAROLD . Formed in 2007, Toronto Ontario Canada with Phil Ogison
(guitars, guitar synth), Matt Poulakakis (fretless electric bass)
Jeff Howard (electrodrums and percussion), Lorne Thomson
(synthesizers & devices) with Subduction Current (Digital Image
Projections by Tammaro.) HAROLD has been described as "space
rock played by desert bluesmen who are into dub." Thus music is
semi-improvisational; the same piece never happens the same
way twice. Catherine Tammaro of Subduction Current will
be doing live digital image projections as HAROLD plays.

. SUBDUCTION CURRENT . Spaced out psychedelic digital
image projections will be artfully displayed throughout the
evening by Catherine Tammaro of Subduction Current.

• 10.16.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
impossible structures featuring
LITTLE OAK ANIMAL + SPACENOIZ
Thursday October 16th @ The Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Avenue . north side of the Danforth,
2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway - map here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. We're heading back east for the October PiNG as we return to
The Renaissance Café for a night of building seemingly impossible
structures of sound and visuals.

. 8.30PM . Little Oak Animal is an audio/visual collaboration between
Toronto artists Rob Cruickshank and Dafydd Hughes. Their
improvised performances combine computer-generated sound
and hand-manipulated images from slides and Super-8 films
into an organic whole where each element in turn leads
the other through a quiet dialogue.

. 9.30PM . Spacenoiz . Jim Fields, formerly of Rhea's Obsession
and currently a full time member of Holoscene, brings his Spacenoiz
project and his many string things and efx back to the PiNG for a solo
set of beautiful spacey atmospherics.

• 09.21.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
TEXTURES a Special Sunday Afternoon
Concert with dSU (dreamSTATE, Sylken & URM),
Building Castles Out of Matchsticks,
Kinder Atom, Contrapture and
General Chaos Visuals
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

. 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.

. 2 PM . Contrapture . Matthew Poulakakis, James Bailey and
William Davison play a set of improvised music using home-made,
found, broken and toy instruments.

. 3PM . Building Castles Out of Matchsticks . 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. For this performance, Anne will be playing new songs
off her album secret land which is available now through
Trace Recordings.

. 4PM . dSU . Soundscapes and sequencer-driven space
music piloted by dSU [Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Eric Hopper
(Sylken), and Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE & URM)] will launch
you right off this planet to explore electronic worlds of
sound and light.

. 5PM . Kinder Atom . The warm organic flavours of Kinder Atom
will tempt your senses and soothe your soul as their deep electro,
funky, dreamy and gentle ambient sounds fill the space.

. 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.

Special thanks go to Maurie Todd and the Textile Museum of
Canada for helping us to make this happen.

08.20.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG's
NiNTH ANNiVERSARY with mara's torment,
Pholde, Whisper Room & General Chaos Visuals
Wed. August 20th 2008 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block from the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6 / PayWhatYouCan

• For the PiNG's NiNTH ANNiVERSARY we're returning to the
comfortable sociable space of The Central (just west & south of
the Bathurst Subway Station beside Honest Ed's & Suspect Video.
(BTW - besides their fine beers they also serve delicious meals.)

Like past anniversary shows, we've invited some good friends
who have played a large part in the PiNG's history to perform.
The sonics will be provided by mara's torment (rik maclean from
ping things - who we're sure will be deeply inspired by the mighty
rains we've been having), Pholde (Alan Bloor aka Knurl - performing
on metal soundsculptures) and Whisper Room (a new ambient/improv supergroup with guitarist Aidan Baker from Nadja + ARC, Neil Wiernik
aka Naw on bass guitar and Jakob Thiesen from Students + The Reversibles on drum machine.) Of course it wouldn't be an anniversary
show without the evolving light painting of General Chaos Visuals,
so we're very happy to have Stephen Lindsey + Eric Siegerman
returning for their sixth PiNG anniversary show performance.

• 07.16.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
SPACED on the DANFORTH with Geek Weekend,
The Devil In The Design & General Chaos Visuals
Wednesday. July 16th 2008 @ The Renaissance Café
1938 Danforth Avenue . north side of the Danforth,
2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway - map here
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6 / PayWhatYouCan

Join us for an eastern PiNG at The Renaissance Café which
is another fine pro art space suited to the PiNG. There's room
to socialize with comfy chairs, a couch or two and a small patio
out front. Plus there's more couches up near the performance
space for those who want to focus in on the good friends we've
invited to perform. In between are tables and chairs along the
bar which has great beer on tap plus gourmet coffee and
munchies available.

• For July 16th, Phil Ogison (The Devil In The Design)
is presenting four works entitled, 'Behind the seen'.
The concept for this project is an exploration of
situationist views of landscape and structures
in a historical framework.

These pre-recorded/live element works are comprised of found
sound collected around the Toronto Harborfront and archival
spoken word samples, digitally manipulated and arranged with
the addition of live electric guitar and keyboard synthesizer.
For this occasion, ten limited edition studio copies of
'Behind the seen' will be available for the price of $5.00 each.
The event will be recorded live in both audio and digital video
format, to be made available at a later date online. This project
is part of an forthcoming co-release with Hotel Nuclear / AZT
(Ronconfreddo I, Berlin D, and Noyon Fr), a project of
Martha Zapparoli (penelope x) and Giancarlo Bianchini (AZT)
part of the "Arto-Zat" group, a cultural association concerned
with promotions of artistic research and is composed of
artists, musicians, video makers.

• Geek Weekend is back for another summer sizzler.
Robert Hoare (Berlin) and Steven Sauvé (Hamilton) look
forward to bringing you all manner of sultry sounds, drenched
in absurdity, and dripping with irony. No computers have been
harmed in the making of this music. ADVISORY: Random
processes are used throughout the performance.

• Eye candy for the evening will be courtesy of our friendly
neighbourhood light painters ­ General Chaos Visuals.

• 06.24.08 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents
SUMMER LAPTOPiA with NAW, URM and SRF
Tues. June 24th 2008 @ The Central . 603 Markham St.
1 block from the Bathurst subway . Map, info and directions here.
PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6 / PayWhatYouCan

NAW - Neil Wiernik (Whisper Room / dropfile) produces warm,
atmospheric, and cinematic electronic music with sound design
firmly grounded in the rich traditions of dub studio culture & formal
contemporary composition.

URM - Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE / SADU / NOiNO) explores
alien mutant psycho jazz, dark / light ambience, soundscapes &
sequencer driven pulse-music with a laptop filled with a virtual
mountain of soft synths and sound toys.

SRF - Kevin Doherty (Sleep Research Facility) is a dark ambient
artist from Glasgow, Scotland, now living in Toronto & specialising
in beatless ambient music of spacious, extended, richly-textured
sounds & throbbing undertones.

It's been a while since the PiNG has presented a show in a nice comfy
bar with good food and fine beers (Nia at C'est What?!!) - so we've
booked 3 terrific sound-artists to create the scapes & grooves
for a Tuesday night at The Central in the Annex.

Located right beside Honest Ed's and Suspect Video at 603 Markham St.,
The Central has all of the above + an intimate main-space to immerse
yourself in the performances + a connected room to reconnect with
your friends at the PiNG + a sweet patio out front for smoking and chilling.
Mark June 24th on your calendars now - we're really looking forward
to seeing everybody again!

• 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

• 04.26.08 BUDDHA MACHiNE GATHERING #2

THE UNiVERSiTY OF ZEN . BUDDHA MACHiNE GATHERING #2
in collaboration with SOUNDEYE - New Directions in Chinese Music
@ The Hart House, East Common Room, University of Toronto
Downtown Campus - Click here for a Map
Saturday April 26th . 7PM Sharp . FREE

BUDDHA MACHINE GATHERING #1 in March 2007 was in the
Allan Gardens Conservatory Greenhouses but this year we're going
back to school to learn about FM3, the Chinese experimental duo
who designed the Buddha Machines. Come early with your Buddha
Machines to meet in stately Hart House and create a new sociable
soundscape starting at 7PM. Then, beginning at 7:30, TANSO
(which is Mandarin for discover) presents films featuring Chinese
Experimental/Noise Artists: FM3, Yan Jun, Wang Fan, Wu Quan
followed at 9:30 by ShanShui Records' presentation of electronic
artists: Sulumi and other performances. We're going to see if we
can get a round or two of Buddha Boxing in there too! There's
complete info on the 3-day SOUNDEYE - New Directions in
Chinese Music events at the TANSO website. FREE
Hope to see you there on Saturday night at U of Z...

Don't forget fresh batteries for your Buddha Machines.

What's a Buddha Machine?
Where do you get them? Soundscapes - 572 College St., Toronto
(Tell them THE AMBiENT PiNG sent you).

Tues. Jan. 29th • NEW ARTiSTS FOR A NEW YEAR
Featuring Syzygia . Sleep Research Facility . Ortiz
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday January 29th . 9pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

Please note the later start time of 9PM.

. SYZYGIA . The project of Harrison Dahme, dealing with the
ambient and atmospheric.

. SLEEP RESEARCH FACILITY . Sleep Research Facility explores
notions of awareness and perception in the sub/unconscious listener.
Focusing primarily on sound bereft of rhythm based energies, SRF's
goal is to provide listening environments wherein the music simply
adds texture to the silence. A kind of “play me quiet” sound suitable
for listening to actively or passively depending on circumstances,
creating an aural experience which guides the mind through gentle
misdirection rather than forcing its attention, allowing listeners to
drift in their own diversified thoughts.

. ORTIZ . Laurier Brown finds the crinkly, skittering nuggets in
the white noise. His first Ortiz release The Crinkle and its Faces
was an exploration of glitchy layered noise­scapes, almost
undetectable beats mingled with hiss and static. Dark dreams
for long winter nights put to tape, digitized, randomized, spliced,
split up, spit out. His second release, Salvage, further digs into
the sonic subconscious, carving subterranean passages under
ancient roots planted in the psycho­spiritual mulch. Hooves
draws from the ghosts left behind in the cracking pavement
where the groves once grew, remembering great herds, drifting
past gulls flying out to sea.

Tuesday November 27th • AN AUTUMN CHiLL
Featuring SHEN and Mark Thibideau from Repair
and the world premiere screening of SADU LiVE
@ THE PiNG with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday November 27th . 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

. SHEN . taken from the arcane taoist term for `refined energy' or `depth', shen is noah pred's outlet for low­tempo explorations of forward­thinking computer music. drawing inspiration from the eastern aesthetics of botanical architecture and geomantic techniques, shen evokes organic structures through lush ecologies of synthetic chords, deep textures and minimalist machinations. honing his craft through sets performed alongside the likes of monolake, deadbeat, shulman, lusine, and bluetech, his unique interpretation of the downtempo genre rapidly evolved into a distinctly recognizable sound. incorporating elements of electro, dub and minimal techno, shen's fluid funk is aimed equally at the public thrill of the dancefloor and the internal transcendence of headphones. with tracks appearing on the acclaimed leftcoast liquid vol. 1, floating point 3and various green samurai clan compilations, the debut shen full­length, outlines, was released in december 2006 on native state records.

. Mark Thibideau . catch Mark Thibideau from the Toronto based techno threesome Repair as he takes a break from his regular duties as the Drake's excellent soundman for the PING to lay down some ambient synthesized spaced out grooves live on stage.

. SADU LiVE @ THE PiNG with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS . to close
out the evening we'll be showing this just released DVD on the
big screen. This is the world premiere of the concert video
of SADU performing live with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS on
June 13th 2006 at THE AMBiENT PiNG which was directed
and produced by David Sloma of Rockin' Films and
features a 5.1 surround sound mix (in dts and
Dolby Digital) by Jamie Todd.

SADU is Eric Hopper (Sylken), Terrence O'Brien (Anomalous
Disturbances) and Jamie Todd (URM, dreamSTATE and NOiNO).
GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS is Stephen Lindsey and Eric Siegerman

Tues. Oct. 30th • ALL HALLOW’S EVE-EVE
Featuring Ghost of a Flea and MiMo
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday Octiber 30th . 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

Ghost of a flea is a noise/ritual/literary project by Toronto-based
Nicholas Packwood. Ghost of a flea draws on techniques from
musique concrète, found sound and angelic grammar to produce
cinematic dark ambient music for opening the gates, for conjuring
lost love, for summoning and binding. 93 93/93

MiMo is a duo featuring multi-instrumentalists Matt Miller (laptop,
guitars and synth) and Samuel Morgenstein (drums, percussion
and electronics). Their live performances combine stripped down
compositions and skeletal arrangements to create wide-open
soundscapes for improvisation. This improvisation can take many
forms: solos, the laying down of a spontaneous groove, or an act
of inspiration whereby sounds, rhythms and phrases are captured
in real-time, then deconstructed, manipulated and re-organized,
until, in a fleeting moment, these elements collide into a distant
murmur, a pulse, an explosion, or even cacophony.

Sat. Sept. 29TH . THE AMBiENT PiNG is pleased
to be a part of an improvised collaboration
for scotiabank nuit blanche at LE LABO

LE LABO presents SHARE-LABO with
special guests SHARE-MONTREAL
and THE AMBiENT PiNG
LiVE MULTiMEDiA JAM @ LE LABO
THE DiSTiLLERY DiSTRiCT . CANNERY BLDG #58 . ROOM #317
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29TH . 7PM - 7AM . FREE

LE LABORATOIRE D'ART (LE LABO) welcomes SHARE MONTRÉAL
(SHARE MTL) for an all-night live media arts and sound event
they’re organising together during the city-wide scotiabank nuit
blanche 2007. The event, called SHARE-LABO, starts at 7.03PM
September 29 and runs through to 7.03AM the next morning.
The presentation follows a new open jam formula called SHARE.
Participants improvise with each other's signals, movements
and voice in real time video and audio to create unique
multimedia performances.

All artists who experiment with live media arts are invited to
participate. SHARE is an opportunity to jam with like-minded
creative individuals from the digital arts scene. Participants from
video, audio or performance practices bring their instruments,
equipment, laptops and cables, and plug into the sound system
or projectors and improvise live together.

Members of LE LABO and of SHARE Montréal will participate
in the all-night performances with artists from the long-running
THE AMBiENT PiNG series and artists from the Montréal and
local communities. This project is developed within the
tradition of happenings, renewing their meaning
in a technological environment.

For PiNG artists still wishing to subscribe to take part in the
SHARE, simply send an email to info@sharemtl.com
and express your interest in being part of the jam and let
SHARE know which musical category you would like to
participate in - ambient, experimental, IDM, noise or beat.
Also, please include any time preferences or time
constraints that you have for the night.

Tues. Sept. 25th • A BACK TO SCHOOL DRONE
Featuring Kinder Atom . Scott M2 . Spacenoiz
dafydd hughes . atlaxia . Aidan Baker
Matthew Poulakakis, James Bailey and URM.
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday September 25th . 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• To celebrate our first anniversary at THE DRAKE UNDERGROUND,
the PiNG looks back to our first show at the DRAKE and once again
brings you A BACK TO SCHOOL DRONE.

• Droning is a long held tradition at the PiNG which goes way back
to dreamSTATE's Drone Cycle of 2000, so once again we'll be
Dialling D for Drone. This year you'll hear some long time PiNG droners
like Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Jim Field (Spacenoiz), dafydd
hughes (Methuselah), Aidan Baker (ARC, Nadja), James Bailey
(Odradek, Six Heads, NOiNO, tidal pool), Jamie Todd (URM,
dreamSTATE, SADU, NOiNO) and Matthew Poulakakis
(Salvage Sound, NOiNO.) We're also pleased to welcome
new droners Heiki and Kris (Kinder Atom) and atlaxia.

Drone Schedule

. 9.00 . Jamie
. 9.15 . dafydd
. 9.30 . Heiki
. 9.45 . Kris
. 10.00 . James
. 10.15 . Scott
. 10.30 . Jim
. 10.45 . Matthew
. 11.00 . atlaxia
. 11.15 . Aidan

Performers will drone for about 40 minutes each.
Overlapping droners will start the drone going
around 9PM and will finish it up around midnight.

This year's drone brought to you in the key of D.

Tuesday August 28th • THE PiNG's
EiGHTH ANNiVERSARY SHiNDiG FEATURiNG
• dreamSTATE • AMBIENT-TV • SYLKEN
• A PRETTY SONIC SPLATTER • NOiNO
• Synþ • GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday August 28th . 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

Way way back in the last century, THE AMBiENT PiNG began
presenting live multimedia performances featuring innovative
and experimental artists exploring the many forms of ambient
music. From 1999 to 2006, the PiNG produced AMBiENT PiNG
TUESDAYS as a weekly series of live performances held in a
variety of nightclubs in the Toronto area. Since the late
summer of 2006 and after seven years of weekly shows,
the PiNG now presents AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS on
a monthly basis. In addition to this monthly series, the
PiNG continues its tradition of periodically presenting
international and local artists live in a variety of
alternative concert spaces.

For our 343rd show, we celebrate 8 YEARS OF LiVE @ THE PiNG
and bring you a treat by presenting a heaping helping of some of
the many artists who have defined the flavour of the PiNG. Back
from last year's anniversary show are dreamSTATE (ambient
electronic soundscapes) and GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
(psychedelic eye candy), who will be joined by AMBIENT-TV
(ambience by PiNG founder A. Sprogis), Synþ (percussive
synthetics from Terry Campbell's multi-year project),
A PRETTY SONIC SPLATTER (progressive electronics by
Anne Sukowski of Building Castles out of Matchsticks and
Phil Ogison of The Devil in the Design), NOiNO (improvised
experimental with Jim Bailey, Matthew Poulakakis and
Jamie Todd) and SYLKEN (space music featuring Eric Hopper
with dreamSTATE's Scott M2 and Jamie Todd reprising their
past when all three played together as Radio Silence.).

To make the night even more special, NOiNO, SYLKEN and Synþ
will all be releasing their new CDs, so check out their new music
and all the other cool stuff at the ping things media table. Our
wonderful host, THE DRAKE UNDERGROUND, has given us
the whole night to play, so come early and plan to stay late.

THE PiNG's EiGHTH ANNiVERSARY SET LiST:

• 8.30 • AMBIENT-TV
• 9.15 • dreamSTATE
• 10.00 • Synþ
• 10.45 • SYLKEN with dreamSTATE
• 11.30 • A PRETTY SONIC SPLATTER
• 12.15 • NOiNO

Tuesday July 31st • DARK SUMMER NiGHTS 2
Featuring the deep dark ambience of
mara's torment and AKUMU
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday July 31st. 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• 8.30 • mara's torment • rik and Sovaak return to the PiNG
stage to celebrate the release of the mara's torment compilation
set "mt96061". Featuring old favorites, new music and rare tracks
from the last ten years, this collection finally proves just how an
integral a force the sock monkey has been all this time. In keeping
with the idea of the comp, rik looks forward to playing re-imagined
work that will appeal to new and old fans alike. This performance will
also be accompanied by video by the brilliant and talented Sarah Grant
who has created work for a number of previous mara's torment performances. If you can only see one mara's torment show this
year, this is surely the one you want to see.

• 9.30 • Akumu • After a recent break from live performances,
Toronto's Akumu (aka Deane Hughes) returns to THE AMBiENT PiNG bringing his brand of atmospheric ambience, shadowy beats and minimal electronic manipulations.

Formed as a solo project in 2000, Akumu has released three full-length
albums on his own Spider Records label, a split CD with Andrew Duke
on Cohort Records as well as various compilations and net tracks.

Akumu has performed live across Ontario and Quebec, including 2005’s
Mutek festival in Montréal, and features projections of his distorted
photography, animated collages and 2D/3D video experiments.

For this performance at the PiNG, Akumu will be creating an eerie,
flowing soundscape that draws on new material from his upcoming
solo EP and from 2006's Cohort release.

Tuesday June 26th • DARK SUMMER NiGHTS 1
Featuring s:cage (dark electronics)
+ KNURL (metal machine noise)
+ visuals by VJ Carrie Gates
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday June 26th . 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• 8.15 • KNURL • Knurl is Canada's best-known noise artist, working
in the style of the Japanese noise masters, and often referred to
as "Canada's King of Noise". He is known for his imaginative
performances where sculptures, machinery, household appliances
and even people are used as the primary sound sources which
are processed through an array of guitar pedals creating the
sonic torrent. Alan Bloor has graced our stage many times
as PHOLDE, but this will be the first time that he performs
at the PiNG as Knurl, the anti-music sound sculptor.

• 9.15 • s:cage • what's astounding in s:cage's work is the ability of
mixing various moods through the assemblage of sounds. there is
beauty and aggression at the same time but there is no disruption;
it could be the symphony of an awakening megalopolis; a million
individuals living their daily lives at the same time. In s:cage's
sound space nothing is as it seems.

• VJ Carrie Gates is here all the way from Saskatoon to wrestle your
retinas with her sensual, psyched-out mix of visuals. Her recent live
video mixing work ranges from lush, abstract textures to dramatic,
punchy patterns, to sexy, enigmatic experiments with household
objects and the human body. Her work is sometimes dark and
mysterious, sometimes extremely vivid and visceral, and sometimes
it is hilariously poppy and bizarre. While never subjugating her visuals
to straight responses to the live sound, she collaborates with sound
artists to create new relationships between sound and vision. Carrie
uses Max/Jitter, Arkaos, Cosmic Painter, a hacked brain, live cameras,
and top secret feedback techniques to create synaesthetic experiences
for audiences and inspire new ways of thinking.

• Please note that for the June PiNG, the sets will be starting
15 minutes earlier than usual and we will be finishing up at 10PM
as the DRAKE HOTEL has a highly recommended live show
following the PiNG featuring RASTER-NOTON artists:
senking (aka jens massel) and frank bretschneider.

This is an inspired bit of post PiNG late nite programming by
the DRAKE as RASTER-NOTON is an extremely interesting label
based in chemnitz / germany. RASTER-NOTON is meant to be a
platform - a network covering the overlapping border areas of
pop, art and science. They realize music projects, publications
and installation works. Common idea behind all releases is an
experimental approach - an amalgamation of sound, art and design.

Plan to stay late (we are) to catch the yatra-arts presentation
of the RASTER-NOTON summer session with performances by
frank bretschneider, senking, sans soleil w/ visuals by additv
and a i-pod dj set by bender.

Check with the DRAKE for ticket info.

Tuesday May 22nd • RADiO iN AMBiENCE
A special presentation for DEEP WIRELESS
in collaboration with NEW ADVENTURES IN
SOUND ART featuring GEEK WEEKEND with
ROBERT HOARE (Berlin, Germany) &
STEVEN SAUVÉ (Hamilton, ON) + Halifax duo
STEPHEN KELLY & ELEANOR KING
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday May 22nd . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• For the 5th year running, RADiO iN AMBiENCE transmits from the PiNG.
This time out, Toronto/Berlin sound artist Robert Hoare and Hamilton
synthguy Steven Sauvé bring their Geek Weekend project back to
the PiNG. Also along for this year's spin on the radio dial are PiNG
newcomers, the Halifax duo Stephen Kelly and Eleanor King.
Join us as our Deep Wireless guests coax the radio ether
into an outer-worldly electro ambient chill.

Explore the New Adventures in Sound Art website for more on
Deep Wireless, a month-long celebration of radio and
transmission art.

• NOTE that for MAY, the PiNG breaks from our usual last Tuesday of
the month slot @ The Drake Underground so that we can be in the
thick of the Deep Wireless festivities by presenting this year's
RADiO iN AMBiENCE performance on TUESDAY MAY 22ND.

Tuesday April 24th • KINDER ATOM +
SMASH 'n TEENY with visuals by ADDITV
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday April 24th . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• Kinder Atom, Toronto minimalist electro innovators, land for the
their first performance at the PiNG as we continue our chilled
out SPRiNG FLiNG @ the PiNG.

Kinder Atom are the people behind Toronto's nice + smooth ultramedia
collective of artists, musicians, dj's and designers fusing their talents
into one hyper-creative and diverse production agency.

Check out Kinder Atom's 4th release of deep electro, jazzy house
and dubby chillout grooves which features a free DVD included
in the digipak with seven different music videos by various Toronto
directors. These visual interpretations of Kinder Atom’s music
embrace nature inspired, layered abstract imagery and colours.

The warm organic flavours of Kinder Atom will tempt your senses
and soothe your soul as their deep electro, funky, dreamy and
gentle ambient sounds fill the PiNG @ the UNDERGROUND.

• BEE SPACE . Smash and Teeny with visuals by Additv
Live electro-acoustic audio/visual improv derived from
bees and other insects.

Smash and Teeny are Nilan Perera (altered electric guitar and
effects) and Sarah Peebles (laptop, mixing bowls, speaker drivers,
and sho mouth-organ). They have performed and recorded as a
duo since 2001 in Europe, Canada, the U.S. and Japan, and have
performed with John Butcher, Evan Parker, David Toop, Jin Hi Kim,
Kô Ishikawa, and Darren Copeland, among others. Their double-CD
" Gathering" (Spool), has received critical praise from the likes of
The Wire, Exclaim! and New York's Downtown Music Gallery.

"The duo mix tidal undulations of tone with the ability to pick
out sharp flecks of texture in complex aural environments."
The Wire

Additv (Rob King) is an artist, researcher and student in the
Communication and Culture masters program at Ryerson.
His works have focused on the social interactions between
people in an online environment, emergent systems,
and digital play.

Tues. Mar. 27th • REPAIR + Anachronic XP
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday March 27th . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• What do you get when you cross a blushing singer with stage fright
and a pair of methodical twins? A powerhouse of tension: part boy,
part girl, and completely magnetic. A threesome known as Repair.

The techno trio Repair returns to the PiNG for the third time and
for the third year in a row. Join the musically uncompromising
twin brothers, Mat and Mark Thibideau, as they lay down the
beats behind the lush, sultry vocals of frontwoman Dawn Lewis.

• Fresh from their ALMOST LiVE performance on PiNG RADiO
comes our new friends from Quebec, Anachronic XP.

Tired and bored of traditional hip-hop, Quebec City based
Anachronic XP began their experimentations in 1999 by evolving
their music into a mix of electronic soundscapes with hip-hop
beats and patterns. Anachronic XP is a fresh breath from the Quebec
electronic scene as they perform all the beats and scapes live onstage
with synths, samplers and control boards. Guitarist JFO joined the
band last year, bringing his flavour of slide guitar, effects and
synth to the mix.

Sun. Mar. 25th • 2-4pm • A PiNG
SOUND-iN-SPACE GATHERiNG
THE ZEN GARDEN PARTY
- Buddha Machine Gathering #1
@ Allan Gardens Conservatory Greenhouses
(South side of Carlton between Jarvis & Sherbourne)

Bring your Buddha Machines and help create a moving sound-in-space
experience in the beautiful tropical gardens in the Allan Gardens
Conservatory. Hang-out and chill-out with other peaceful spirits
to enjoy a taste of Spring and a unique sonic landscape. Bring your
friends too - it's fun and it's free. (Buddha Machines optional.)

What the heck is a Buddha Machines? Click here to find out.
Where do you get them? Soundscapes - 572 College St., Toronto
(Tell them THE AMBiENT PiNG sent you.)

Tues. Feb. 27th 07 • UNDER SEE RECORDINGS'
compilation CD release CITIES BENEATH THE SEE
Featuring performances by AIDAN BAKER
+ BUILDING CASTLES OUT OF MATCHSTICKS
+ GREATER EXPLOSIVES + sensehertz
+ GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday February 27th . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• This month the PiNG celebrates the release of the Under
See Recordings' compilation CD - Cities Beneath The See by
welcoming back PiNG favourites Aidan Baker and Anne Sukowski's
Building Castles Out of Matchsticks along with PiNG newcomer
Damian Valles aka Greater Explosives, all of whom have
tracks featured on the CD.

Around sets sensehertz will be spinning tracks by artists from
Under See Recordings, Worthy Records, Arcolepsy
and Music Made By People.

Psychedilic eye candy projections will be courtesy of
our old friends GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS.

Under See Recordings exists as a forum for those willing to
push the boundaries of musical experimentation. This incredible
CD compilation is strikingly eclectic as a whole, yet remains
somehow thematic through 17 tracks.

• Please note that as we have 3 acts and 3 sets for this special
occasion, the PiNG will be extending later into the evening
beyond our usual 11PM closing. Doors will open at 8PM
as per usual.

Tues. Jan. 30th 2007 • Wally Jericho & URM
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday January 30th . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

• For the 1st PiNG of 07, we welcome back our old friend
Wally Jericho, the 1st performer at the 1st PiNG
way way back in August of 1999.

Wally's been bursting with creativity lately and is busting to
break out his new rig of portable yet powerful sonic toys
to treat the PiNG faithful to a sampling of the musical
ideas which have arrived of late to Jericho Station.

We're expecting lots of looping fun as the man with the horn
(and many other instruments) returns to the PiNG stage
for first time in two years with not one but two loopers.
(One can never have enough loopers in one's rig!)

• Also on the bill, URM plugs the PC gaming accessories into
his laptop music box to perform a special set in surround sound,
featuring material from the Shadows of Light show which was
recently on AMBiENT PiNG RADiO.

Utilizing only a single laptop filled to the brim with a
virtual mountain of soft synths and sound toys, URM's
Jamie Todd (also of dreamSTATE, NOiNO and SADU)
will take us on a 3-D quadraphonic sonic journey which
explores alien mutant psycho jazz, dark ambience,
spacey soundscapes and sequencer-driven pulse.

• Before and Between Sets we'll be featuring more excerpts
from Kairos the splendid new DVD from Steve Roach featuring
his magnificent music merged with imagery from a variety of
visual artists: Lynn Augustein, Steve Lazur, Steven Rooke,
John Wadsworth and John Vega with Roger King.
A gorgeous synthesis of sound and visions.

Tues. Nov. 28th • STYROHEAD & SPACENOIZ
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
Tuesday November 28th . 8pm - 11pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

A special performance featuring PiNG favourites STYROHEAD
(Joe G) & SPACENOIZ (Jim Field of Rhea's Obsession),
performing together for the first time to kick
out the sonic jams.

Prepare to be intrigued as these two guitar, synth and sample
heads improvise the night away as they take us on a
journey through space.

Monday November 20th @ Gallerie Le Labo
The PiNG and Arcolepsy present
AN EXPLORATION OF DRONE:
TROUM • POLMO POLPO • AIDAN BAKER vs
2/3 of OFF THE INTERNATIONAL RADAR

Doors at 9pm . cover $6
@ Gallerie Le Labo,
The Distillery District
Cannery Bldg #58 . Room #317
W of Parliament . S of Front
link to map

 

AN EXPLORATION OF DRONE: Germany's Troum,
featuring former members of the seminal ambient/industrial
band Maeror Tri and owner/operators of the 7" record label,
Drone Records, bring their transcendental ambient drone
music to Canada for the first time.

Canadian compatriots Polmo Polpo will perform a solo
set and Aidan Baker (ARC, Nadja) with 2/3 of
Off the International Radar will perform a
collaborative guitar-drone set.

9:30pm: Aidan Baker vs 2/3rds of Off the International Radar
10:15pm: Polmo Polpo
11:00pm: Troum

The PiNG presents PHOLDE and SIX HEADS
with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
Tuesday October 31st . 8 pm - 11 pm . PWYC ($5 suggested)
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin

The PiNG presents a special All Hallow's Eve performance
featuring sound sculpturist PHOLDE and the secretive
surrealist sound collective SIX HEADS all bathed in light
courtesy of the GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS eye candy.
(Please note the early 8 pm start time.)

PHOLDE @ 8:30 pm
Alan Bloor (Knurl) returns as PHOLDE to bow, scrape, brush,
klang and caress his self-created metal sound sculptures
with other metal objects to produce thunderous, spacious
soundscapes. Metal, amplified and effected.

SIX HEADS @ 9:30 pm
Using a range of unusual sound sources (home-made
instruments, circuit-bent electronics, toys and found
objects, field recordings, etc.) and some creative
live mixing and audio processing, SIX HEADS produce
a dense, shifting sonic dreamscape of ambient textures,
jarring juxtapositions of concrete sound and an absurd
and vaguely disturbing sense of humour. SIX HEADS are
James Bailey, William Davison, Linda Feesey, Sherri Lyn
Higgins, Colin Hinz and Pete Mosher.

The PiNG presents SONiC TAPESTRiES
as part of NUiT BLANCHE
@ THE TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
Saturday September 30th . 7pm - 1am
Textile Museum of Canada . 55 Centre Avenue
South of Dundas . East of University

Join us as we turn the Textile Museum into an evolving
musical space as PiNG artists unravel their sonic tapestries
inspired by the museum's unique environment. As you journey
through the physical space, you will also pass through a live
improvised soundscape inspired by the surrounding textile art.

PiNGer's like Matthew Poulakakis (Automatic Fats, Solipsystem,
Salvagesound, NOiNO), Rich Baker (ARC Mnemosyne), Jamie
Todd (dreamSTATE, URM, NOiNO, SADU), rik maclean
(mara's torment, metro starman), Alan Bloor (Knurl, Pholde),
Aidan Baker (ARC, Nadja), Ben Grossman, Jim Field (Spacenoiz,
Rhea's Obsession), James Bailey (Odradek, Six Heads, NOiNO),
Eric Siegerman and Phil Ogison (The Devil in the Design,
Subduction Current, Psychosomatic Climax Machine)
will be moving about and performing together
throughout the gallery spaces.

In addition to the roving minstrels resonating in the galleries,
there will be LiVE PAs set-up to feature the following
group performances:

7pm . m - arc - ur
(featuring ARC & URM +)

8pm . mara's torment

10pm . B - O - P
(featuring Aidan Baker, Phil Ogison & Matthew Poulakakis +)

11pm . NOiNO and Pholde

Illuminating the performers with their special brand of eye
candy will be General Chaos Visuals.

Experience the Textile Museum as never before when the
gallery space is filled with PiNG space for the first
half of Nuit Blanche.

SISTER RAY & THE AMBiENT PiNG
present an 8 HOUR DRONE
Tuesday, September 26th . 6pm - 2am
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs at the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen Street West at Beaconsfield
West of Ossington . East of Dufferin

Next Tuesday, THE AMBiENT PiNG lands at the DRAKE HOTEL
in the UNDERGROUND as we join forces with our friends at
SISTER RAY to present an 8 HOUR DRONE to celebrate
SISTER RAY's one year anniversary.

PiNGer's like Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE,
URM, NOiNO, SADU), rik maclean (mara's torment, metro starman),
Matthew Poulakakis (Automatic Fats, Solipsystem, Salvagesound,
NOiNO), Alan Bloor (Knurl, Pholde), NAW, Aidan Baker (ARC, Nadja),
Ben Grossman, Nilan Perera, Jim Field (Spacenoize, Rhea's Obsession),
James Bailey (Odradek, Six Heads, NOiNO), Anne Sukowski (Burning
Castles Out Oof Matchbooks, Love Puppets, Psychosomatic Climax
Machine), Mark Fields (love puppets) and Phil Ogison (The Devil
in the Design, Subduction Current, Psychosomatic Climax Machine)
will contribute their unique sonic space scapes to the drone.

Join us on Tuesday at the DRAKE UNDERGROUND for the 8 hour
drone and raise a pint to SISTER RAY for bringing us a year
of great noise.

THE AMBiENT PiNG's 7th ANNiVERSAY SPECiAL
mara's torment • dreamSTATE • naw •
General Chaos Visuals
Thursday August 17th • Tranzac (Main Hall)

Has it really been a year since Dread Pirate rik and Sovaak the Scurvy
Sock Monkey of mara's torment took to the high seas in search of
the mythic Jade Llama? Whoa, time sure does fly! In celebration of their
return to THE AMBiENT PiNG stage the pair have put together an eclectic
collection of sea shanties and singalongs designed to celebrate both the
excitement of their days at sea and the PiNG's Seventh Anniversary.
Needless to say rik and Sovaak look forward to sharing a bill with
both dreamSTATE and naw, and to reacquainting themselves
with some old familiar faces. Yaaaarrrrr!!!!

Electronic sound artists dreamSTATE celebrate the launch of OM,
their 3rd CD and their 1st live performance release, with (what else!)
a fresh live performance. OM is an ambient soundscape journey
recorded live at the OM Festival 2000 in Trudeau Park, Tweed,
Ontario and in the spirit of that performance, dreamSTATE will
create a free-ranging soundflow to carry the audience off into
an alternative mindspace. They're very happy that psychedelic
lightlords General Chaos Visuals will be along for the trip!

naw is Neil Wiernik (co-curator of the online digital arts quarterly
vagueterrain.net) and his sound is warm, atmospheric and cinematic -
firmly grounded in both the rich traditions of dub studio culture and
formal contemporary composition. The Wire recently described it
as having "the kind of sharpness and clarity usually lost amid the
murk and decay of clicks and cuts and digital delays." Upon
learning that the Tranzac has a high quality stereo PA, Neil
has decided to perform pieces from his sets at Mutek this
year - works originally arranged for immersive listening.

Look for the ping things table to get your fix of ambient, electronic,
trip hop, dream pop and chill music until the next PiNG - or visit the
pingthings site now for an extensive " summer heat" sale on over
50 discs. Yep, they're craaaazy!

*ping things will be the exclusive source for dreamSTATE's
new OM CD from August 18th until October.

Tuesday July 11th • Canartic and InsideAMind

Austin's Jon Coats and Randall Peterson formed Canartic with
bass player Gerard Smith in 2002. Canartic utilize dub and
downtempo styles as guides to collage electronic shapes around
simple grooves. The chilled results are then injected with a dose
of psychedelia, courtesy of heavily processed guitar. Finally,
samples round out the mix, providing listeners with hints to the
ideas behind the music. Live, Canartic perform as a duo, with
Coats dub mixing in real time from hard disk, and Peterson
adding treatments and his processed guitar.

As the definition of the word "DJ" continues to expand,
InsideAMind emerges in Toronto as a four man scratch band,
further stretching artistic boundaries by performing live original
compositions with vinyl. The scratch musicians, as they call
themselves, bring forth a unique angle to what a group of
DJ's/Producers armed with instruments called turntables can
create. By developing outside the often limiting battle-oriented
mindframe that scratching is too often associated with, the
crew is bringing new life to this ever evolving artform.

Before Sets CD • The Truth In Me by Roger O'Donnell
This week we feature former Cure keyboardist Roger O'Donnell's
splendid solo record which was inspired by and created with a
Moog Voyager synthesizer. Definitely not a concept album,
rather a concept for an album as it was a re-visiting of his
early days of composing using limited equipment, but now
with 25 years of influence and experience to draw upon.
It's definitely a voyage worth taking.

Between Sets CD • Momentium by Jeffrey Koepper
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Tuesday July 4th • A Worthy Summer
Worthy Records Night 1 featuring Josh St. Denis
and -243 °C with special guest Anne Sulikowski

As our neighbours to the south celebrate Independence Day,
we celebrate by welcoming back our favourite independent
label, Worthy Records for the first of two summer in the city
performances. Night 1 features the electronic manipulations
of Josh St. Denis and the mysterious sounds of -243 °C.
Ending the night is collaboration between these two
projects with guest Anne Sulikowski joining them on keys.

Before Sets CD • immunoflourescence by antifade
Another ambient downtempo dub project from the Dank Disk
people who will be bringing Canartic to the PiNG next week
on July 11th.

Between Sets CD • LiVE by SADU
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Tuesday June 27th • PHOLDE and ARC with NOiNO

PHOLDE (Alan Bloor) and ARC (Aidan Baker, Rich Baker
and Chris Kukiel) return to the PiNG with NOiNO (James
Bailey, Matthew Poulakakis and Jamie Todd)
to bend fold and mutilate sound.

Up first, PHOLDE strokes, bows and carrases his metal
sculptures into an amorphous soundscape to be welded
with the sonic shiftings of the NOiNO aggregate into
an organic, electronic, metallic, sonorous tapestry.

Next up, ARC's guitar drones and pulse driven drums and
percussion will be augmented with the found, sampled,
synthetic sounds and rythmic machinery of NOiNO in an
all out jam to celebrate improvisational bands that were
born out of desire and necessity on the PiNG stage.

Before Sets CD • blacklight days ep by Canartic
We'll be spinning the downtempo sounds of Canartic who
will be visiting the PiNG on July 20th.

Between Sets CD • Beneath the Sky by Lammergeyer
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Tuesday June 20th • Rob Piilonen, Joshua van Tassel,
Todd Pearson aka DJ Syklik and Lyle Crilly

Rob, Joshua, Todd and Lyle will be playing an assortment of
dreamy improvised pieces, with a strong focus on using potentially
rigid instruments in a free flowing and creative manner and
having the flute fit in as a sometimes melodic, sometimes
electronic/drone based addition.

Rob Piilonen: Flute and Effects
Josh van Tassel: Sampler and percussion
Todd Pearson aka DJ Syklik: Turntables
Lyle Crilly: Laptop

Before Sets CD • the circle is not round by ARC
We continue our preview of the upcoming PiNG performance
by Pholde and ARC with NOiNO on June 27th by playing
this ARC CD from 2005.

Between Sets CD • Is This Home by Morgan Doctor
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Tuesday June 13th • SADU - Sylken, Anomalous Disturbances (Vancouver, BC) and URM with
General Chaos Visuals

SADU invites you to THE AMBiENT PiNG to bask in some liquid
sound paintings, spacious atmospheres and ambient vibes to float
your mind on. Eric Hopper (Sylken), Terrence O'Brien (Anomalous
Disturbances, visiting from Vancouver) and Jamie Todd (URM)
team up to bring you an evening of spacey synth washes, looping
ambient guitar cascades, rhythmic grooves and virtual laptop
soundshaping for your enjoyment. Tonight will also see the
release of the new SADU LiVE CD which features deep
ambient soundforms performed by Eric, Terry and
Jamie during 2005. SADU LiVE will be available
from rik @ his ping things CD bar and online store.

Once again, General Chaos Visuals will illuminate the event
with moving kaleidoscopic coloured textures. Don't blink.

Before Sets CD • in accordance with conscience by PHOLDE
This week we preview the upcoming PiNG performance by
PHOLDE and friends on June 27th by playing this 2002 CD.

Between Sets CD • Timbre by William Fields
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

Tuesday June 6th • The Ministry of Inside Things
(Philadelphia, PA) and General Chaos Visuals

MoIT's Spring/Summer 2006 Tour touches down at the PiNG to
bring us another taste of their spacemusic.

The Ministry of Inside Things (electronic musician Chuck van Zyl
and electric guitarist Art Cohen) are considered among the most
innovative of US synthesists today. Influenced by the early music
of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Tempel, their
spacemusic has been described as linear, leading the listener across
many sonic terrains. Based on improvisation, The Ministry of Inside
Things creates electronic realizations that flow from theme to theme,
with the experience often lasting up to two hours. Through use
of textures and atmospheres as well as harmony, rhythm and melody,
the group transports the audience on an internal sonic excursion.

Chuck van Zyl has been recording electronic music & performing in
public for over 15 years. Van Zyl originally worked under the name
Xisle, but is best known for hosting one of the US's most successful
radio shows of electronic music, STAR'S END, for over 20 years.
Art Cohen has been pushing the limits of the electric guitar in the
studio and in live performance for well over 15 years. He uses
processing to enhance the space around his guitar and loops his
live sound to create lush layers to create soundworlds of
immense depth and beauty.

General Chaos Visuals will also be in the house to illuminate
MOIT and to fill our eyes with their unique blend of visual candy.

Before Sets CD • LiVE by SADU
This week we get a sneak preview of SADU's premiere CD to
be released at next week's PiNG featuring SADU (Sylken,
Anomalous Disturbances and URM).

Between Sets CD • Morula by Colin Rayment
Visit here to find out more about this week's between set
CD and tune in to ping things radio every Sun & Wed
from 9pm to 12 midnight EST to hear music from this and
other discs in the ping things catalogue.

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