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THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com Wednesdays @ 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 Wed. April 27th - A Pretty Sonic Splatter and dreamSTATE with General Chaos Visuals A Pretty Sonic Splatter is the sound works of Phil Ogison (The Devil In The Design) and Anne Sulikowski (Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks). They perform live together in the Psychosomatic Climax Machine and since they live 50 km apart, they get their music done by remixing each other's material over MSN - bouncing tracks from one over to the other with a new layer added each time. Songs end up all over the place covering different sounds and forgotten territories with various music genres slipping into another and then slipping back again. Melting. Lingering. Pounding. No boundaries, just music. Phil and Anne really enjoy working together and realize that it is fate that they met. Their performance at the PiNG will cover new tracks from their new album "It Is Fate That We Met" available from worthy records' ever-growing catalogue for 5 dollars. http://www.worthyrecords.com/ Electronic soundscape artists dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie Todd) have planned a set evoking and invoking ghosts of the past, the present and the future. Sound environments will be established and then transformed. Colonies of beats and notes will be founded, will grow, peak and then fall into decay, towers of sound erected and collapsed, leaving fragmented memories and haunted dreams. http://www.dreamstate.to A third set brings both duos together for their first collective improvisations. General Chaos will provide their beautiful and hypnotic visuals for the evening. http://www.generalchaosvisuals.com Between Sets CD - "True Stories" by vidnaObmana & Jeff Pearce Belgian electronics artist vidnaObmana and American ambient guitarist Jeff Pearce created this gentle collection of sonic short stories, light and dark, during 1997 and 1998. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming Wed. May 4th - coin gutter and vitaminsforyou http://www.sfeericle-records.com/vitaminsforyou/ http://www.coingutter.ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||: IN THE LOOP :|| by Luna Tek A last-minute lineup change turned out to be a real boon for THE AMBiENT PiNG audience on Wednesday, April 20, 2005. Thomas Al-Hamed stepped in for Andrew Moon and made his debut at the PiNG in the latest installment of The Planet of the Loops. Thomas plays with the Trainwreck Collective, Joy Fusion, Denormalize and guest performs with Escalate. Performing on an Oud (Arabian Lute) and looper, Thomas improvised with guitarist Andrew Aldridge to create two sets of lush atmospherics. Enveloped in this exotic music, an image of the musicians casting veils of sound into the room came to mind. The evening was a special treat for fans of acoustic and electronic improvisation with a Middle Eastern sensibility. The next evening, Brian Eno presented a lecture at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Eno's talk was part of the AGO's "Third Culture: Where Art meets Science" series. Eno supported the sense of optimism inherent in the exhibition by describing a number of environmental, political and social initiatives underway around the world. Suggesting that the "job of the artist is to imagine other worlds," Eno challenged his listeners to take an active role in creating a new world order. More info at: http://www.geocities.com/energymadeaudible + www.trainwreckcollective.ca. Luna Tek - luna@theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews "Deep Blue" by Wally Jericho After being out of print for the last two years, Wally Jericho's release "Deep Blue" is now back in stock at ping things! Taken from a show at THE AMBiENT PiNG in February of 2000, the disc is steeped in processed trumpet and sparse bass guitar work which are of course the sort of sounds that I've come to associate with Wally. A sort of minimal space jazz sound reminiscent of late Summer Sunday nights spent listening to alien radio stations as you drive through the country, passing through towns without names, a long stretch of highway your only friend. Dreamy, hypnotic, wonderful. It's no wonder that everybody wants to play with him. 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 Wednesday 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.