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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Tuesday May 11th 2004 - RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 featuring David Pritchard + Scott M2 + Byron Wong and Planet Of The Loops with BLEEP Visuals Week two of our special presentation for Deep Wireless, in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art, featuring artists creating soundscapes using radio as a significant soundsource. http://www.deepwireless.ca The first set features Toronto radio legend David Pritchard (host of the infamously eclectic Late Night show on CHUM-FM in the late 60s/early 70s, the first manager/program director for CFNY in the 70s, and creator of "Nocturnal Eathworm Stew" which is currently being released on CD for the first time - and which should be available at the ping things table). Joining David will be electronic soundscape artist Scott M2 (dreamSTATE, earotica) and multi-instrumentalist Byron Wong (King Brand Vallium, My Brilliant Beast) to create an evolving mix of electronic music with radios, treatments and loops. David Pritchard - http://www.thesonicworkshop.com/ Scott M2 - http://www.dreamstate.to Byron Wong - http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicArtistsW/wong_byron.html In the second set Planet Of The Loops' founder Andrew Aldridge is joined by Scott M2 to improvise a live-loop-based performance using as their primary sound-source, Feedback Monitor (DJ Greg Clow's weekly new electronic music program on CIUT-FM 89.5), which will be broadcasting a recording from last year's Deep Wireless/Planet Of The Loops' performance at THE AMBiENT PiNG on May 13th 2003. That performance was Jakob Thiesen (Self Service) looping/treating a Feedback Monitor broadcast of the previous week's P.O.T.Loops / Deep Wireless performance on May 6th 2003. The goal is to take a one-week loop and expand it into a one-year loop rooted in the original live radio/theramin/guitar/loop-based performance by Andrew Aldridge. POTL - http://www.geocities.com/energymadeaudible/planet.html Greg Clow / Feedback Monitor - http://www.feedbackmonitor.com BLEEP Visuals will be making their first appearance at the PiNG with digital projections for both sets. http://www.bleeptunes.com Between Sets CD - "Fever Dreams" by Steve Roach (Projekt) Roach's latest CD is the first of 3 interconnected "Fever releases" for 2004, featuring electronic textures interweaving with sensuous, mid-tempo hybrid grooves. Guest musicians Patrick O'Hearn on bass and Byron Metcaff on percussion add to the lush, hypnotic, and sweltering sonic atmosphere. (Available now at ping things.) http://www.steveroach.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming May 18th - Hypnotech 3 and low frequency pilot with General Chaos Visuals http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/hypnotech3.htm http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/lowfrequencypilot.htm http://www.generalchaosvisuals.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews "Fever Dreams" by Steve Roach Steve Roach is an artist who creates an environment for his listeners, self-contained worlds that exist entirely within the confines of his music. With his latest, "Fever Dreams", Roach has made a disc filled with beautiful & mystical places, a hyper reality akin to the most intense of reveries. A collection of four long form pieces, "Fever Dreams" brings to mind the desert that has inspired so much of Roach's work, filled with a ritual and mysticism that speaks to our souls. "Wicked Dream" opens the album with shakers and light percussion conjuring images of vast spaces, wide open terrains made bright in the hot sun of high noon. Deep bass drones pass through the soundscape like clouds moving across a clear blue sky made hazy by desert heat. Additional textures drift pass, landmarks along the horizon. A sense of something mysterious and otherworldy. In contrast "Fever Pulse" brings to mind a night time ritual, surging forward with rolling percussion and drifting pads flying by like spirits awakened by unheard voices. Metallic tones rise and fall in irregular intervals interspersed with spiralling sounds that recall the twinkling of stars. A sense of ceremony, of shared communal magic. You can't help but feel the pulse in this piece. Track three, "Tantra Mantra" starts subtly with fluid tones and minimal beats, slowly gaining in voice, climbing in strength. Hand percussion gives way to deeper, more bass driven drumming, hypnotizing, primal. Subtle variation drifts through it's nearly thirty minute length, enrapturing the listener in a swirling spiral. Beautiful. "Moved Beyond" closes the disc with powerful percussion, hypnotic pads ascending and descending. The sounds of wind through chasms, canyons, the moon passing through the night sky marking the passing of midnight and beyond. And slowly, like the dreams of the disc's title, the intensity lessens until all that's left is a vivid memory of a journey to strange lands. "Fever Dreams" is quite simply an astounding piece of music, an excursion to beautiful soundworlds, to exciting new vistas. Steve Roach is an artist who creates an environment for his listeners, and with this release he has made one of his most beguiling and enticing environments yet. Highly recommended. rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com Explore the ping things' newly expanded "features" section at: http://www.pingthings.com/PTfeaturesNF.htm Send an e-mail to pingthings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for updates on *all* the latest releases on sale at ping things http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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