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The wonderful electronic music inventor Dr. Robert Moog passed away last weekend (August 21st, 2005) and the PiNG will be playing some significant Moog synthesizer-based albums before and between sets this week in his honour. http://www.moogmusic.com I think that all current electronic musicians will discover his legacy in their roots. There's some shots of my own small Moog system at a PiNG event here: http://www.dreamstate.to/apo_270901.htm Thanks Dr Moog! - Scott M2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com Tuesdays @ HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor (directly across from the Bathurst subway station) - Toronto Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Tues. Aug. 30th - The Riderless + Michael Keith with David Sait "The Centre of Stillness" - The debut of the mysterious "Old World" amalgamation from the creative partnership of Michael Keith & David Sait. Michael will be performing on one of the World's oldest and most majestic instruments, the Chinese 7-string long zither (Guqin). The first 'guqin' dates back some 3000 years and was played only by the highest scholars including Confucius. Completing the duo is David Sait, who will be showcasing the Chinese Guzheng (18 & 21 string zither with moveable bridges). The guzheng's (goo-jung) first recorded sighting was in 600 BC and is the Grandfather to such instruments as the Japanese koto and Vietnamese Dan Tranh among others. There is a real warmth, an organic blend of traditional music and contemporary approaches being brought to the listener by this duo. Their set at the PiNG will focus on BALANCE, with slow building movements gravitating in time towards intricate playfulness leaving the ear and spirit with a central perspective. http://www.alexiteric.com http://www.davidsait.com The Riderless will be mixing their own blend of old-world wonder and heavy sonic futurism as their eclectic touring troupe cross-breeds two guitars, bass, keyboards and drums with an "acoustic recorderly" side of exotic and invented instruments. "Fallen Reverends", their fifth record is sixty-five minutes of mostly electric workouts with a few acoustic tracks, while their sixth album "Enceinte" is recorded live at the house o' miracles and is almost completely acoustic instrumentation, save the keys and a lonely electric guitar. http://www.theriderless.com Between Sets CD - "The Dark Side of the Moog V" (Fax) by Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze with Bill Laswell Dr Robert Moog himself introduces this "Dark Side of the Moog" chapter from a series of ten albums by Namlook and Schulze featuring Moog's famous electronic instruments - including his prized modular synths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming Tuesday September 6th - A Worthy Fall - September featuring The London Apartments and Weird State Inbetween http://www.worthyrecords.com http://www.thelondonapartments.com http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pageartist.cfm?bandID=256530 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||: IN THE LOOP :|| by Luna Tek Summer may be winding down but things are heating up at THE AMBiENT PiNG: BLEEP and Beneath These Idle Tides played to a full house on Tuesday, August 23 and offered two wonderfully contrasting concerts. BLEEP first wowed the audience with their blend of rock electronica and Robyn Sellman's ethereal vocals. As Igor Olejar kicked out on his electronic drum pads, new member Maz Fusion twanged the strings on bass and guitar while Robyn injected synth parts between her creatively processed vocals. The icing on the cake: the fab visuals that BLEEP has also become known for. An electro-pop/chill-out delight! Beneath These Idle Tides began their set with a melancholy passage reminiscent of Gavin Bryars "The Sinking Of The Titanic". Haunting, evocative, thin wails were followed by heavy crescendos. This is music you can get lost in: somehow it engages without triggering that random thought process which diverts even the most attentive listener. Pure ambience. In the pieces that followed, their sound became increasingly heavier, with a noise-oriented edge and then came full circle, ending with a spell of quiescence transmitted via drifting notes that left the audience longing. Guitarist Myke Atkinson was then joined by bass and drums for a piece before returning to solo guitar. In the final moments of their performance, the trio was reformed and they performed a melodic passage that suddenly switched into a truly intense finish. More info at: http://www.bleeptunes.com and http://www.downrecords.com/idletides/epk.html Luna Tek - luna@theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews "Land of the Blind" by The Circular Ruins The music of The Circular Ruins has always struck me as lush, as very full. An intricately detailed canvas of sound art that captures a sense of both time and place. With the release of "Land of the Blind", The Circular Ruins have collected eight stunning pieces that continue to engage & delight in the same manner. The disc opens with "A Storm of Secondary Things". Delicate sweeping pads loop and swirl, while complex percussive patterns play underneath. Shimmering melodies unfold as the piece progresses. A beautiful introduction to the disc. "Holiday in Reality" is built around fluttering patterns of sound, a series of squelchy electronic patterns rising and falling throughout. A sense of movement, of journey permeates throughout the track, a lovely feeling of travel. Wonderful. "Thought is False Happiness" builds upon a latticework of pads and waves, intricate folds weaving and gaining in complexity as time passes. A stunning piece. Track four, "Anamnesis", is a much more subtle piece, a minimal sense of movement that uses silences to accent the tones throughout. Patches of dialogue pass through like fragments from half forgotten dreams. A fantastic track that I find myself drawn to again and again. "The Abyss of Proof" is an ominous track, a dark foreboding introduction leading into a tense claustrophobic environment. Be careful when you stare into the abyss, it has a way of staring back at you... "Interior Distance" features a repeated arpeggio overtop an organic backdrop of landscape sounds. Delicate and simple, yet somehow vaguely threatening. A slow and steady journey through the familiar territory of reason to the darker lands of delirium. "Standing in Violent Golds" is a more dense piece, dark matter and alien elements clashing, conflicted. There are small pieces of beauty that stand in contrast to the controlled chaos at play here, but they serve only as small reminders of order, in effect bringing the confusion more into focus. Disc closer "A Distant Assembly" is an epic track that utilizes oblique motion to anchor simple melody lines, slow waves of sound rising and falling like tides. Tones gain in strength, finding order and reason, gradually melting into other forms, taking on other shapes and meaning. A hundred vistas pass by during the course of it's length, each another glimpse of alien worlds, different spaces, a thousand more just beyond reach. And then it is done, an afterimage reflected in our mind's eye the only reminder of what we've seen. Without doubt, "The Land of the Blind" lives up to and surpasses all of my expectations with regards to The Circular Ruins. A truly wonderful disc featuring a truly wonderful collection of music, I recommend it wholeheartedly to fans of the ambient genre in all of it's forms, as well as to all those who enjoy the discovery of inner journeys. rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things Send an e-mail to pingthings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for updates on *all* the latest releases on sale at ping things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG is a social sound/art event presenting live performances by Toronto's finest ambient, chillout, improv and experimental music artists plus performers from across the continent, every Tuesday evening at HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor. http://www.theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forward this e-mail to any friends who may be interested in live ambient, chillout and experimental music performances or to any of your appropriate newsgroups. Thanks.