the PiNG presents RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 with NOiNO

["PiNG" <ping@theambientping.com>]

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 

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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

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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.

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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 

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* 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   

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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 

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