The PiNG presents Toronto's 1st Ambient Music Festival

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THE PiNG'S FiRST AMBiENT MUSiC FESTiVAL
-> APRil 25 . Robert Rich - Live in Concert
-> APRil 28 . Pholde + dreamSTATE + Beta Cloud
                      with General Chaos Visuals
-> MAY 01 . Emmanual Madan and Anna Friz + EC Woodley

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SUNDAY APRiL 25th . The PiNG + The Music Gallery
present ROBERT RICH LIVE IN CONCERT
@ The Music Gallery . St. George the Martyr Church
  197 John St. - north of Queen W. behind the AGO .
  Doors 6:30pm . concert 7:30pm .  $25 door / $20 advance

  Advance Tickets available now at: MOOG AUDIO - 442 Queen W,
  ROTATE THIS - 801 Queen W, / SOUNDSCAPES - 572 College St.
  Advance Online Tickets available now at:
  http://www.theambientping.com   (click the BUY NOW link)

To start the festival off in a big way, the PiNG welcomes ambient
soundscape legend Robert Rich for an intimate concert performance
at The Music Gallery's St. George the Martyr Church.

Across three decades and almost 40 albums, California-based
Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient, dark ambient,
and "tribal" electronic fusions, yet his music remains hard to
categorize. Part of his unique sound comes from using homemade
acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal harmonies, custom
software, chaotic systems and feedback networks. Rich began
building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, when he was
13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford’s prestigious
CCRMA while earning a degree in psychology.

Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Among these early
releases, the 1986 Swedish LP Numena found its way into some of
the earliest London chill rooms and influenced DJs like Jonah Sharp
and Mixmaster Morris. Rich then began a string of 11 critically
acclaimed releases for the Hearts of Space label. His two
collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and Soma (1992),
laid the groundwork for what became known as techno-tribal music.
His collaboration Stalker (1995) with B. Lustmord became a
defining landmark of dark ambient.

Rich has performed in caves, cathedrals, planetaria, art galleries and
concert halls throughout Europe and North America. His all-night
Sleep Concerts, first performed in 1982, became legendary in the
San Francisco area. He occasionally revives his all-night concert
format, using live nocturnal radio broadcasts to extend the audience
range. In 2001, Rich released the 7 hour DVD Somnium, a studio
distillation of the Sleep Concert experience, possibly the longest
continuous piece of music ever released at the time.
http://robertrich.com

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WEDNESDAY APRiL 28th . SPACE TOURiSM featuring PHOLDE
+ dreamSTATE + BETA CLOUD + GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS
@ Supermarket  . 268 Augusta Ave . Kensington Market .
  just south of College  .  Map, info and directions at:
  http://www.supermarkettoronto.com/site/section/contact
  PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

For the second night of our first AMBiENT MUSiC FESTiVAL,
the PiNG presents a 3-stage expedition from the depths of the
Geosphere to far-out beyond the Ionosphere. Space tourists,
can enjoy the voyage comfortably with a microbrew in hand
in the PiNG's geo-stable orbiting lounge-simulator at
Supermarket in Kensington.

20:30 . PHOLDE . Alan Bloor (Pholde aka Knurl) opens the night
with a new set of dark metalsonics wrought from his custom sound
sculptures of hardened steel. Bowing & striking his unique creations
Bloor will take you deep into his subterranean soundworld.
http://www.pholde.com

21:30 . dreamSTATE . This trip, electronic travellers dreamSTATE
(Scott M2 & Jamie Todd) will explore the surface: rolling the highways,
seeking the mysteries, floating through forests and turning the soil
in the Firegarden. Watch for new visuals weaving through the Chaos.
http://www.dreamstate.to

22:30 . BETA CLOUD . Floating higher and higher into outer space -
Beta Cloud spans the sonic space between avant/improv/instrumental
performance & ambient/drone/dj sound installation. All compositions
will be performed and improvised in real time. Noise, hiss, dynamic
peaks, sub & supersonics are intentional and controlled to ensure
a maximum lo-fi listening experience for our space tourists.
http://www.myspace.com/thebetacloud

. GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS . Irradiating eyes in space, the Chaos
dynamic duo (Stephen Lindsey and Eric Siegerman) will be on board
to illuminate the soundship with their mind bending light paintings.
http://webhome.idirect.com/~slindsey

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SATURDAY MAY 1st (8PM) . THE PiNG + NAISA present
RADiO iN AMBiENCE for DEEP WIRELESS featuring
EMMANUAL MADAN + ANNA FRIZ + EC WOODLEY
@ THE CHRISTIE STUDIO . Artscape Wychwood Barns
  #170 . 601 Christie Street . SW of the Bathurst/St. Clair Subway
  $15/$10 student (free for Deep Wireless / Radio Without
  Boundaries conference registrants)

Closing out Toronto's first AMBiENT MUSiC FESTiVAL the PiNG
launches Deep Wireless 2010 (a month-long celebration of
radio and transmission art) as they co-present with NAISA
(New Adventures In Sound Art) the 9th annual
RADiO iN AMBiENCE show.

This year's performance is entitled GROUND, RESONANCE, RADIO
and takes place on Saturday May 1st (8PM) & will also be performed
on Monday May 10th (2PM) at the Artscape Wychwood Barns in
The Christie Studio #170. The worlds of vinyl record collage and
multi-channel micro-watt radio intervention come together in a
collaborative performance by Anna Friz and EC Woodley, as
well as a performance by Emmanuel Madan.
http://www.naisa.ca

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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 the ping things store for ambient, electronic and chill things:
http://www.pingthings.com

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