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THE AMBiENT PiNG . http://www.theambientping.com presents AMBiENT PiNG TUESDAYS @ HACiENDA . 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor . Toronto (NW corner, upstairs across from the Bathurst subway station) Doors open at 9pm . 1st set at 9:30 . PayWhatYouCan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THiS Tuesday May 16th . 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) For part 2 of RADiO iN AMBiENCE, we dial up the third ever performance of NOiNO as Jim Bailey (Odradek and Six Heads), Matthew Poulakakis (Automatic Fats, salvagesound and Solipsystem) and Jamie Todd (dreamSTATE, SADU, Sylken and URM) plug in to appropriate the airwaves. Tune in as NOiNO hunts and gathers radio frequencies plucked from the atmosphere to be coalesced with archival broadcast samples and melded into a evolving repurposed sound construct as it passes through the NOiNO transistors. http://www.pingthings.com/AFmolasses.htm http://www.pingthings.com/SALVAGESOUND.htm http://www.pingthings.com/DSpassage.htm http://www.pingthings.com/URM1.htm http://www.pingthings.com/URM2.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Before Sets CD . Everlasting Moment by The Ministry of Inside Things As a prelude to their return to the PiNG on June 6th, we'll be spinning the second disc from their 2003 release. http://www.synkronosmusic.com/moit.html Between Sets CD . The Secret Doctrine by Building Castles Out of Matchsticks Visit http://www.pingthings.com/BUILDINGsecret.htm 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 at http://www.live365.com/stations/marastorment to hear music from this and other discs in the ping things catalogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COMiNG Tuesday May 23rd . DAC Crowell (Rankin, IL) Join us next week as we welcome electro acoustic artist DAC Crowell who will be bringing up his modular synth gear to immerse and envelope the PiNG in slowly evolving sounds and drones. It's rather fitting that DAC joins us as we are celebrating the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art as DAC has a fondness for utilizing shortwave radio signals as musical instruments. I'm sure DAC will get in the spirit of the event and wire up some radio to the modular for some synthetic shortwave too. Tune in and don't miss this rare Canadian performance by DAC. You can read more on DAC's Fave Musical Instrument here: http://www.creativesynth.com/BESTOF/RadioMusic/BO_RM1.html Hear some DAC here: http://www.magnatune.com/artists/dac_crowell and here: http://www.myspace.com/daccrowell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Other Toronto area sonic/visual events of interest this week: * Wednesday May 17th . Esprit Orchestra presents New Wave Composers Festival 8:00 pm & 9:00 pm - Two Concert Sets - curated and conducted by Brian Current & Scott Good - compositions and improvisations by various festival composers and performers. 10:30 pm - Late-Night Band Sets with Kanaka blending elements of jazz, free improvisation, pop and world music. DeLeon White Gallery, 1096 Queen St West . Free * Wednesday May 17th . Matt Welch with Alex Lukashevsky, Nick Fraser, and Josh Thorpe. New York bagpiper and Tzadik recording artist Matt Welch comes to town to play at a special Window Series concert at the Tranzac. One solo set, including traditional piobaireachd music and work by Lucier and Braxton; and one group set with Josh Thorpe on guitar, Alex Lukashevsky on bass, and Nick Fraser on drums. 10pm . Tranzac main hall, 291 Brunswick St. . $8 * Thursday May 18th . Esprit Orchestra presents New Wave Composers Festival Festival Finale, conducted by Alex Pauk, features specially commissioned works by two young Canadian composers: Erik Ross’s Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra and Scott Good’s Babbitt (for saxophone(s) and orchestra), as well as works by two Quebec composers: André Ristic’s Sublimations and José Evangelista’s Violinissimo. 8:00 pm . Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front St East single - $32, seniors - $16, students - $10 * Thursday, May 18th . Improvisors' Pool The improvisors' pool is a weekly gathering for musicians who practice collective free improvisation. It welcomes players of all levels and backgrounds. 7:00-9:00 . Ralph Thornton Centre 765 Queen Street East * Friday, May 19th . The Ryan Driver Quartet Ryan Driver: piano/human voice Martin Arnold: guitar (vox invader) Rob Clutton: bass, Jake Oelrichs: drums 10:00 pm . TRANZAC Pay what you wish * Friday, May 19th . Eric Stach presents THE SCREAM a festival of New Music, Noise/Sound IMPROVISATION a 10 week Friday Night Series May 5th to July 7th Musicians are welcome to drop by and play Place: 105 Clarence Street, London, Ontario, between Hill and South, west of Wellington. 9:30pm -1:00 am Every FRIDAY NIGHT no cover byob * Friday, May 19th . Synchro presents ROBERT STRAUSS w resident DJs DENISE BENSON & ANDREW ALLSGOOD Andy Poolhall, 489 College St., Toronto no cover before midnight - $5 after - 19+ * Sunday May 21st . Power Up by Kathy Kennedy As part of the Deep Wireless Festival Kathy Kennedy will apply her skills in sonic choreography and public guerilla sound art to the Toronto urban soundscape with transmission arts performances in parks, street corners, and other sites of dense concentration of Torontonians. 1 PM . Drake Hotel and moving out to surrounding environs . free * Sunday, May 21st . AIMT and the Now Lounge present the Now Series 4pm - ProjectFore: Bass Guitar- Dave Iwanenko Guitar - Greg Markham, Vocals - Bryan Paccagnella Drums - Max Trefler 5pm - Paul Dutton/ Thomas Charmetant: The duo of Canadian soundsinger Paul Dutton and French cellist Thomas Charmetant have played festivals in Paris and Flanders. 6pm - Chris Cawthray(drums)/ Rob Pr ice (guitar): New York guitarist Rob Price, formerly of Dim Sum Clip Job, has recently recorded with Ellery Eskelin, Trevor Dunn and Joey Baron. The NOW Lounge . 189 Church St. . cover is $6.00 * Monday, May 22nd . SUNN O)))) 8 PM . The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St., Toronto . $18 advance * May 1st - 31st . New Adventures In Sound Art Presents: Deep Wireless Festival. a month-long celebration of radio and transmission art, radio artists, sound artists and enthusiasts can experience performances, sound installations, new commissions, special radio broadcasts, a CD launch and conference. Conference Pass $150/130 (+$20 discount - early bird registration) Early bird registration deadline is April 14th, day rates available. May 1st - 31st . The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen St W) & Ryerson University Student Campus Centre (55 Gould St) more info at http://www.deepwireless.ca * May 29th - June 4th . The Toronto Fanfare Project Presented by Soundstreams Canada as part of the SoundaXis Festival of music & architecture, The Toronto Fanfare Project presents an eclectic series of formal and informal brass ensemble concerts over five days in some of the great architectural and acoustical masterpieces in the core of Toronto. More info here: http://www.soundstreams.ca * June 1st - 11th . soundaXis Architecture . Music . Acoustics New Music Arts Projects presents soundaXis, a city-wide festival celebrating architecture, music and acoustics that will transform Toronto into a playground of sound and space exploration. For two weeks, the city will be alive with concerts, interdisciplinary installations, symposia, screenings and site-specific musical events. More info here: http://www.soundaxis.ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 around the world, 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.