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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
• the
latest net label release
from ping things:
Of
Uncertain Aspect by Pholde
ping
things is very
pleased to
announce that their latest net
release
featuring music by one of
the most respected artists in the
ambient/abstract
musical genres is
now available for free download.
Of Uncertain
Aspect by Pholde
features music taken from a live
performance
at Toronto's AMBiENT PiNG
event that captures the unique sound
stylings
of Alan Bloor at his best.
Using found metal objects that are
bowed,
stroked and struck percussively,
Bloor creates a fascinating and
inspiring aural landscape that builds and
grows organically over
time, engaging the listener in a challenging, but
ultimately rewarding
listen.
Of
Uncertain Aspect is
available for free download as a 48 Mb Zip file
containing the full
release in high quality 256kbps
mp3 format along with
artwork suitable for printing. The music on this
release is copyright Alan
Bloor 2008/2009 and may not be used or reproduced
without the artist's
express permission.
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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
free downloadable releases
from
the ping things net label:
a decade dreaming by dreamSTATE
iNTHiSHOUSE by subduction current
Les Landes by Spatial Correlation
Aqua by Andrew
Duke
The
Perfect City by Phil
Ogison
Les
Landes by Spatial
Correlation
Land by Nunc
Stans
here did
we come from defcon? by Ortiz
tactile by mara's
torment,
October Sky by Building
Castles Out of Matchsticks,
Ensoulment by Remora
Music
for Travellers #2 by Panoramaroid
fluctuations by mara's
torment,
Love and the Fear of Poverty by Spatial Correlation
Mechanism of the Soul by Reinholt56.
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• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 3
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 2
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 1
• THE
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• PiNG
SiTE UPDATE
• ABOUT
THE PiNG
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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. Also
in
2006, Troum at Le Labo and SONiC
TAPESTRiES featuring
many PiNG artists at The Textile Museum of
Canada for
Nuit Blanche 2006 and
most
recently TEXTURE a special
Sunday afternoon concert
featuring various PiNG artists
at The Textile
Museum of Canada in September 2008.
Since
June of 2008
through April 2009 the PiNG had been
alternating between
two very comfortable arts
friendly clubs,
The Renaissance Café and The
Central, for
our regular monthly
in-club series. Sadly in May 2009, The Renaissance Café retired
from the local bar scene. Currently
the PiNG is presenting special
events in various
spaces
across the city instead of just in a
single barspace.
For
its Tenth Anniversary in August of 2009, THE
AMBiENT PiNG
returned
to Augusta Avenue for a special celebration
at Supermarket.
Performers booked included
some of the first artists to play the PiNG
in 1999 and a first-ever
live performance by a new collaborative
project – to represent
the artistic cross-pollination often
inspired at the PiNG.
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• LiVE
PiNG DVD • SADU
LiVE @ THE PiNG
with GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
(A PiNG THiNG DVD CONCERT RELEASE)
A
multi-camera concert video
of SADU performing
live with
General Chaos Visuals on June
13th 2006 at THE AMBiENT PiNG.
Experience
the PiNG at home with
this spaced out psychedelic DVD
of eye and ear candy. Chill to the
ambient soundscapes and grooves
of SADU while basking in the visual
glory of GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS.
SADU is Eric
Hopper (Sylken),
Terrence O'Brien (Anomalous
Disturbances) & Jamie Todd (URM, dreamSTATE & NOiNO.) GENERAL
CHAOS VISUALS is Stephen Lindsey
and Eric Siegerman.
Video
produced and directed by David Sloma of Rockin'
Films with audio
production by Jamie Todd. Presented in DVD (NTSC)
widescreen format
complete with 5.1 Surround in dts and Dolby
Digital.
Available
online at ping
things.
• PiNG
AMBiENCE 3 • STRiNG THiNGS
Featuring
music from:
AmbientTV
Anomalous Disturbances
Aidan Baker • Matt Borghi
Cybertarist Paul E. Royes
Michael Diamond • Diatonis
dreamSTATE • Mark Mahoney
Phil Ogison • Matthew Poulakakis
Styrohead • Sylken
Available
online at ping
things.
PiNG
AMBiENCE 3 is
the third CD in an ongoing series sponsored by
THE AMBiENT PiNG. The compilation features
tracks by thirteen unique
and talented guitar soundsculptors, most of whom have performed at
the PiNG.
PiNG
AMBiENCE 3 began as STRiNG THiNGS,
a personal project by Eric
Hopper of Sylken, to bring together onto
one CD the ambient guitarists
he has come to know and admire in recent times. It became apparent
that
releasing STRiNG THiNGS as PiNG AMBiENCE
3, a PiNG community project
would respond to the demand for more PiNG music and
provide a venue for
these guitar artists to weave their sonic webs.
Thirteen
diverse and intriguing soundscapes are offered by Toronto
guitarists Aidan Baker, Joe G (Styrohead), Eric
Hopper (Sylken),
Scott M2 (dreamSTATE), Phil
Ogison (TDITD), Matthew Poulakakis
(Solipsystem), Paul Royes (cybertarist), Arnold
Sprogis (Ambient TV);
by Terry O'Brien (Anomalous Disturbances,
Vancouver); and by our
friends from the USA, Matt Borghi (Portland OR), Michael
Diamond
(San Rafael CA), Mark Mahoney (The Amaranth
Signal, Knoxville TN)
and Stuart White (Diatonis, Los Angeles
CA).
Various
tracks were sculpted by using only guitar / looper / effect meldings,
while other tracks include synthesized sonics and effect treatments
in
concert with guitar. A palette of moods and textures are created where
the ambient guitar performs as the lead voice, evoking some wonderfully
vibrant and emotive atmospheres where the listener's imagination
can wander.
The
new PiNG AMBiENCE 3 • STRiNG THiNGS compilation
CD of
spacious ambient guitar sound sculptures is available at ping
things.
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 2
The
second in an ongoing series, a compilation of music from
AMBiENT PiNG performing artists. Available
at the PiNG from
PiNG THiNGS.
Featuring
music from
dreamSTATE + Susanna Hood,
Alpha Wave Movement,
Sylken, Paul Royes,
Anomalous Disturbances,
earotica, Solipsystem,
karmafarm, Aidan Baker,
Styrohead, URM, Sara Ayers
and James Johnson.
Available
online at ping
things.
• PiNG
AMBiENCE Volume 1
The
first in an ongoing series, a compilation of music from
AMBiENT PiNG performing artists.
Featuring
music from
Ambient-TV, cheryl o &
Andrew Aldridge, Wally Jericho,
dreamSTATE, Pholde, URM,
Mara's Torment, grain, Cymbl,
Styrohead and Sylken.
Click here for an extensive interview
with Scott M2, Jamie Todd and
Rich Baker
Available
online at ping
things.
• PiNG
SiTE UPDATE
The PiNG
SiTE has been updated with a few new pages
(events2006b, events2006c and events2006d)
added in the Events section
featuring photos from the March
through May 2006 AMBiENT PiNG shows.
Featuring
performance photos of:
• Aidan
Baker (solo) and ARC
• Michael
Keith and Friends
• Interweaver and NOT_digital
• Vessel = Menno
Krant + The
Devil in the Design and
dreamSTATE with The
Devil in the Design + Lynn
Harrigan
and General Chaos Visuals
• WHIPPOORWILL (Chris
Gartner, & Great Bob Scott)
and POLMO
POLPO (Sandro Perri)
• PHOLDE and Greg
Lauzon
• Collapsible
Frequency Flow (CFF) and
Nightingale (Jesse Baird & Dafydd Hughes)
• GEARS
of SAND Mini-Tour featuring
Ben Fleury-Steiner with Mikronesia, William
Fields and
Aidan Baker with PHOLDE
• Robert Rich Live
at The Church of The Holy Trinity
• Arms Full of Sound - "Journey
To Ambientia - Spring"
• RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 1 - A special presentation for
Deep Wireless in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art
featuring Debashis Sinha with Ben
Grossman and Kathy Kennedy
plus JOUST - John Oswald and Scott Thompson
• RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 - A special presentation for
Deep Wireless in
collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art
featuring NOiNO (Jim
Bailey, Matthew Poulakakis & Jamie Todd)
• URM
•Gnostic Rocket (Steve
Barber) and Morgan
Doctor
• THE
AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community
of audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists.
THE
AMBiENT PiNG presents
live multimedia performances featuring
ambient, electronic, soundscape, space, drone, psychedelic, chillout, downtempo,
darkwave and experimental artists from around the world.
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