The Ambient Ping presents LEARK with cheryl o

["Scott M2" <scott@dreamstate.to>]

THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com
Free - Every Tuesday Night - doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30
  @ club nia / C'est What - 19 Church St. at Front St. - Toronto
         3 blocks east of the Union Station subway.
         map - http://www.cestwhat.com/map.html
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This Tuesday August 5th - LEARK with cheryl o

>From the bowels of the Harrison-LeCaine building in the
ancient limestone campus of Queen's University comes
a musical force bred from neglect. Left to fester in the
dark recesses of the studios six prisoners passed the
time playing dice, forging crude weapons and making
some of the strangest Max patches you have ever heard.

LEARK (the Live ElectroAcoustic Research Kitchen)
sends four founding members to Toronto for this show.
Kristi Allik, Mike Cassells, David McCallum and
Robert Mulder will be performing on laptop computers
and synthesizers and in the second set will be joined
by special guest cellist/looper/improviser cheryl o.

LEARK - http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/leark/
Kristi -  http://www3.sympatico.ca/robmulder/kallik.htm
Mike - http://post.queensu.ca/~cassellm/
Robert - http://www3.sympatico.ca/robmulder/
David - http://mentalfloss.ca/sintheta/
cheryl - http://www.cellojuice.com

Between Sets CD - "Recent Future" by Steve Roach
This is disc three of ambient master Steve Roach's
landmark 4 CD boxset of deep ambient driftworks and
will be featured before and between sets, as the Ping
continues to feature this set on the 1st Tuesday of
each month this summer. http://www.steveroach.com
(Ask to see it at the ping things CD table, which is the
*only* non-internet source of the complete 4 CD boxset.)
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Coming Tuesday August 12th - Ambient-TV
Between Sets CD - "Sanctum Sanctorum" by Numina
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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews

"Hope Thrown Down" by Falling You

Those of you that made it to The Ambient Ping on July 29th
were lucky enough to have seen a rare East coast show
by ambient vocal act Falling You. Stunning in it's  beauty,
the work of John Michael Zorko and his revolving group of
singers (magicians as he likes to call them...) gave a
totally spellbinding, truly beguiling performance.

"Hope Thrown Down" collects studio versions of some of
the songs that were performed that evening, a perfect blend
of the organic and the electronic sure to delight fans from
a variety of synthetic genres. With help from vocalists
Aimee Page and Nancy Levan, "Hope Thrown Down" 
features the yearning hearts of "The Art of Possession
(no escape)", and the slow pulsing memories of "March
Thirty-One", where a sparse piano underlies a light
percussive track and a heartfelt vocal. Title track
"Hope Thrown Down" finds a brightness and light in the 
heart of darkness, a symbol of the eternal hope that
exists within the human spirit. Closing track "Song for
Kurt and Ari (excerpt)" keeps that hope alive, ending
the disc with shimmering piano work and some
beautiful washes of sound, ending on a positive note
of self realization and growth.
Brilliant work.

rik maclean - - rik@pingthings.com

This month at http://www.pingthings.com - an exclusive
interview with Mercurine plus the ping things *massive*
first freaking anniversary sale...

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The Ambient Ping presents free live performances by Toronto's
finest ambient, chillout and experimental music artists plus
performers from across the continent, every Tuesday at club nia
(aka C'est What) featuring a comfortable lower stage area, perfect
for attentive listening, plus a higher level with a bar, back room
and more seating that's great for conversation, good food and the
club's impressive beer, wine and whiskey selection. Musical treats
are on offer at the *ping things* ambient/experimental CD boutique.
Drop off food at *ping things* for the Daily Bread Food Bank too
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