the PiNG presents Gnostic Rocket and Morgan Doctor

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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 

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THiS Tuesday May 30th . Gnostic Rocket (Steve Barber) 
and Morgan Doctor

Gnostic Rocket is an experiment in rhythm, repetition and controlled
chaos. It is built on a foundation of dub and experimental music,
utilising Theremin (channeled through a Korg X911 guitar synth),
Yamaha CS-01 analog synth with breath controller, Korg ER1 drum
machine, self-generated samples and the Springboard Dub, a custom
designed delay/effects/sound-generating unit by Arius Blaze
(www.audible-ism.com). No laptops here. Intensive delay and
unpredictable analog sound generators with unusual control features
allow a unique improvisation between man and machine, each 
feeding into and leading the other. An attempt to dethrone the 
tyranny of the mind and reify the body, Gnostic Rocket is a 
one-man project of Toronto-based Steve Barber, who will be 
performing with the following guests: Sean Beresford - guitar,
Roger Sader - guitar and Ay Ses Dunya - voice
http://www.gnosticrocket.com

Morgan Doctor will play a stripped down drum kit / loops / 
samples / percussion (including tablas and a Swiss instrument called 
a Hang) and keys and will be joined by Chris Gartner on bass / guitar / 
effects. They will be performing songs from Morgan's album 
"Is This Home" as well as new material, which is beat 
driven down tempo music.
http://www.morgandoctor.com
http://www.myspace.com/modoctor
http://www.aporia-records.com/morgandoctor.html

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Before Sets CD . Immersion: One by Steve Roach
The first of an ongoing series of long form, steady state "zones" 
created specifically as tone meditations for the living space.
http://www.steveroach.com

Between Sets CD . Morula by Colin Rayment
Visit http://www.pingthings.com/COLINRAYMENTmorula.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 June 6th . The Ministry of Inside Things 
(Philadelphia, PA)

MoIT's Spring/Summer 2006 Tour touches down at the PiNG to 
bring us another taste of their spacemusic. 

The Ministry of Inside Things (electronic musician Chuck van Zyl
and electric guitarist Art Cohen) are considered among the most
innovative of US synthesists today. Influenced by the early music
of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Tempel, their 
spacemusic has been described as linear, leading the listener across 
many sonic terrains. Based on improvisation, The Ministry of Inside 
Things creates electronic realizations that flow from theme to theme,
with the experience often lasting up to two hours. Through use
of textures and atmospheres as well as harmony, rhythm and melody,
the group transports the audience on an internal sonic excursion.

Chuck van Zyl has been recording electronic music & performing in
public for over 15 years. Van Zyl originally worked under the name
Xisle, but is best known for hosting one of the US's most successful
radio shows of electronic music, STAR'S END, for over 20 years.
Art Cohen has been pushing the limits of the electric guitar in the
studio and in live performance for well over 15 years. He uses
processing to enhance the space around his guitar and loops his
live sound to create lush layers to create soundworlds of
immense depth and beauty.
http://www.synkronosmusic.com/moit.html

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* Other Toronto area sonic/visual events of interest this week:

* Wednesday May 31st . AGYU Presents Ken Aldcroft's 
   Convergence Ensemble - Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble, 
   comprised of musicians Ken Aldcroft (guitar), Evan Shaw 
   (saxophone), Scott Thomson (trombone), Wes Neal (bass) and 
   Joe Sorbara(drums), will explore a vast sonic spectrum, deftly
   charting chordal and melodic passages that dissipate into somber 
   atmospherics in their debut AGYU performance.
   Art Gallery of York University, Accolade East Building, Room 116
   4700 Keele Street . Free
   
* Wednesday May 31 . Soundstreams Presents
   Heavy Metal: Stockholm Chamber Brass & Friends
   An intimate yet majestic venue, Trinity College Chapel boasts the 
   best acoustic for brass in Toronto. The concert showcases the 
   Stockholm Chamber Brass and dazzling soloists from
   Norway, Finland, Canada and the Netherlands.
   7:00 pm pre-concert student performance
   8:00 pm concert . Trinity College Chapel, Trinity College, 
   University of Toronto, 6 Hoskin Avenue
   $20 adult  $15 senior  $5 student   
   
* Wednesday May 31st . Poor Pilgrim Series presents
   Craig Dunsmir & Jonathan Adjemian with DJ Polmo Polpo 
   10 PM . Press Club Bar, 850 Dundas St. W.  . PWYC 
   
* Wednesday May 31st . Knurl / Chris Worden (collab: metal and 
   laptop? come and find out!); Eric Chenaux (solo guitar); Impending 
   Death Blues Band (ryan driver, marcus quinn, charles balls. blues
   songs.); Flowers of the Dead (metal islands side project);
   Bonsai Forestry (wicked psych blowout)
   9pm . @the Bagel . PWYC

* Thursday June 1st . 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  
   
* Thursday June 1st . XENAKIS BY ESPRIT
   Alex Pauk, conductor - SoundaXis opening concert
   Jonchaies - Iannis Xenakis   Imaginary Opera - Alexina
Louie                                     
   Hommage à Vasarely - JohnRea      
   Esprit, conducted by Alex Pauk, presents Xenakis¹ Jonchaies, a 
   work of volcanic energy for very large orchestra, containing some 
   of his most melodically expressive music. The program also 
   features John Rea¹s Hommage à Vasarely, a sonic parallel to the 
   visual textures of the renowned abstract painter, and Alexina Louie¹s 
   visceral, compelling Imaginary Opera.
   8:00 pm concert 7:15 pm composers talk . Jane Mallett Theatre
   St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts . 27 Front Street East
   Single - $32; Senior - $16; Student - $10
   
* Thursday June 1st . Soundstreams Presents brilliant brass fanfares 
   from existing repertoire as well as new fanfares by composers from 
   Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Canada will be 
   played throughout the city during informal performances.
   12 noon . Fanfares @ Frum - Barbara Frum Atrium
   CBC 250 Front St. West . Free 
   1:00 - 1.30 pm . TD Fanfares - TD Centre Summer 
   Concert Stage . Free
   
* Friday June 2nd . Soundstreams Presents brilliant brass fanfares 
   from existing repertoire as well as new fanfares by composers from 
   Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Canada will be 
   played throughout the city during informal performances.
   8:30 -9.00 am . Fanfares for the Common Commuter 
   Union Station . Free
   12 noon- 12.30 pm . Fanfare Discovery - MaRS Discovery 
   District Atrium . 101 College St. . Free
   
* Friday June 2nd .  The Creeping Nobodies - Sound of Joy 
   CD Release show.  Performers: The Creeping Nobodies, 
   Wharton Tiers Ensemble (producer of Sonic Youth, Glenn Branca, 
   Pussy Galore, member of 80's no-wave band Theoretical Girls), 
   RYVYR (prog/psych side of Jon-Rae and the River) and 
   Wyrd Visions (folk and drone - new album out on Blue Fog 
   9:30pm .Horseshoe Tavern 370 Queen St. W . $8 adv/$10 door
   
* Friday June 2nd . 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
   
* Saturday June 3rd . A part of soundaXis
   108?Walking Through Tokyo
   A portrait of Tokyo for gallery exhibit / theatre screening 
   (January 2006, 50 minutes)   
   Sarah Peebles - 50-minute soundscape portrait of the 
   ever-changing metropolis without a centre
   Christie Pearson - digital images of Tokyo's architecture, 
   spaces and life 
   Yoshimura Hiroshi - essay on Tokyo's soundscape past & present  
   "108 -Walking through Tokyo" immerses the viewer in the richness 
   of a metropolis through image and sound. A journey created by 
   two Toronto artists: soundscape by composer Sarah Peebles; 
   images by artist/architect Christie Pearson. The screening is 
   contextualized by Urban Deconstructions, currently on view at 
   Goethe-Institut Gallery, with work by Alekos Hofstetter and 
   Holger Lippmann of Berlin, and architects Paul Raff and David 
   Warne of Toronto. A 12 min. video-loop from this show 
   precedes Walking through Tokyo.
   Presented by the Goethe-Institut and soundaXis in cooperation 
   with the Japan Foundation. 
   11 am . Goethe-Institut, Kinowelt Hall 163 King St. W. . Free
      
* Saturday June 3rd . Soundstreams Presents
   Fanfare Square - Brilliant brass fanfares from existing repertoire 
   as well as new fanfares by composers from Norway, Iceland, 
   Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Canada will be played throughout 
   the city during informal performances.     
   12 noon - 12.30 pm, Dundas Square at Yonge & Dundas . Free   
    
* Saturday June 3rd . Plastic Crimewave Sound (Chicago)
   Residual Echoes (Santa Cruz, CA), Mammatus (Corralitos, CA),
   Raag Disguises and the Big City Sagittarius 
   (gfreflex/disguises collab)
   9pm . @751 Queen Street . $8   

* Saturday June 3rd . Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop 
   (Composers' Orchestra) Electroacoustic Forum and Concert
   The CCMW presents a forum for electroacoustic composers. The 
   composer in residence for this event is distinguished Canadian 
   composer and electroacoustic pioneer, Gustav Ciamaga. He will 
   lead a discussion on relevant issues associated with electroacoustic 
   music, as well as discuss the works of invited emerging composers.  
   Please join us for the forum (free) in the afternoon, followed by a 
   concert at 8pm: works by Gustav Ciamaga, David Ogborn, Henry 
   Ng, Troy Ducharme, and Larry Simon. This event is presented in 
   association with Tapestry New Opera Works.
   Forum: 2 - 4:30pm;  Concert 8pm . Tapestry/Nightwood New 
   Work Studio . The Distillery Historic District 55 Mill St. Bldg #58 
   Studio 316 . $15 ($10 students/seniors)
   
* Saturday June 3rd . soundaXis Festival Special presentation   
   Sonic Architecture featuring Elisabeth Chojnacka
   French harpsichordist Elisabeth Chojnacka grapples with 
   notions of sonic architecture.
   8PM . Music Gallery  St George-the-Martyr 197 John St. 
   $20 regular/$15 member + senior/$5 student
   
* Sunday June 4th . Soundstreams Presents MASSbrass
   The magnificent Byzantine-Revival St. Anne's, one of Toronto's 
   largest churches and a National Historic Site, is illuminated with 
   an afternoon concert of exceptional brass music. Placed 
   antiphonally around St. Anne's great interior space, The 
   Stockholm Chamber Brass, True North Brass and soloists
   from Norway, Finland, Denmark and Canada will perform 
   new fanfares commissioned for the project, as well as music 
   by Somers, Pärt, Takemitsu, Turnage, Hétu and others.
   MASSbrass will culminate in the world premiere of R. Murray 
   Schafer's breathtaking new work for three brass quintets, Isfahan.
   2:00 pm pre-concert student performance
   3:00 pm concert . St. Anne's Anglican Church, 270 Gladstone 
   $30 adult  $20 senior  $5 student   
      
* 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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