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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THiS THURSDAY OCT. 16th . THE AMBiENT PiNG presents impossible structures featuring LITTLE OAK ANIMAL + SPACENOIZ @ The Renaissance Café . 1938 Danforth Avenue . north side, 2 blocks west of the Woodbine Subway . Map and directions at: http://www.renaissancecafe.ca/map.htm PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set is at 8:30 . $6 . 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COMiNG iN NOVEMBER . THE FiRST PSYCHEDELiC PiNG Featuring HAROLD (Phil Ogison, Matt Poulakakis, Jeff Howard and Lorne Thomson) with MALCOLM LEWIS opening on Saturday, November 29th at the Renaissance Café Stay tuned more details soon via the usual PiNG spaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ping things is proud to present "tactile" by mara's torment. Released as a single long form piece in four movements, "tactile" continues the studies in environment and isolation that have always been at the heart of the work of mara's torment. Crossing a wide range of emotional terrain, "tactile" is the latest net release from ping things. "tactile" by mara's torment is available as a free download as a 68.5 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 rik maclean 2008, and may not be used or reproduced without the artist's express permission. http://www.pingthings.com/ptnr006marastorment.zip New releases will be added to the ping things site on the 22nd of each month. In the coming months you'll be able to download exclusive work from Building Castles out of Matchsticks, Remora and more. http://www.pingthings.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Check out the AMBiENT PiNG RADiO podcast. Currently posted are the ALMOST LiVE SERiES sets by Numina, MWVM, NAW, Panoramaroid, Remora, Resonant Drift, Salvagesound, and URM. Also posted are the ping things net label releases by Spatial Correlation (Les Landes), Phil Ogison (The Perfect City) Andrew Duke (Aqua) and Nunc Stans (Land). http://www.ambientpingradio.blogspot.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other things of interest: . New Adventures in Sound Art is currently presenting SOUNDplay which is a meeting point for experimentation in new media and sound art pushing the boundaries and encouraging new fusions of image, sound and text. SOUNDplay 2008 includes multi-media performances, installations, workshops and videomusic screenings. Artists include Living Cinema (Bob Ostertag/Pierre Hébert), Laura Kavanagh/Ian Birse, Steve Heimbecker, Jane Tingley and David McCallum/Erik Martinson plus many more. Catch the SOUNDplay performances @ the Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen Street West on October 21 - 25, 8pm, $15/10 (free with concert pass). For more info: http://www.naisa.ca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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, space, drone, psychedelic, chillout, downtempo, darkwave and experimental artists from around the world. http://www.theambientping.com ViSiT ping things for ambient, electronic and chill things: http://www.pingthings.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forward this e-mail to any interested friends or appropriate newsgroups. Thanks.