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Happy New Year and Welcome to the PiNG's latest series of ambient, chillout and experimental music concerts in our new night and residency Wednesdays at the Tequila Lounge. * Attention Artists - "Artists Support Asia - A Call For Help" See more details at the bottom of this e-mail about a potential way to support international aid organizations working in the area of Asia struck by disaster on December 26, 2004 - by using your music! http://www.artistssupportasia.org/about.php * This edition of the PiNG UPDATE introduces a new segment, "THE LOOP" by Luna Tek, which strives to capture in words the sound, the feel, the look and the atmosphere of each event. * rik maclean has picked out his favourite ambient CD releases for 2004 for his segment this week. Enjoy... Scott M2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com Every Wednesday Night @ THE TEQUiLA LOUNGE http://www.tequilalounge.ca - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor (directly across from the Bathurst subway station) - Toronto Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan map - http://www.theambientping.com/maps/tequila.gif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Wednesday January 5th - Repair with Self-Service Visuals The PiNG's first presentation at the Tequila Lounge features crack sound-designers & beat-creators Mark & Matt Thibideau with vocalist Dawn Lewis as they go deeper into the more ambient and experimental sides of their techno/house trio Repair. Mark & Matt will be unleashing their twin SY77 work-stations and vintage JP-4 and DW-8000 synths while Dawn lays down her vocals with a Headrush looper and maybe a synth too. The slow beats, spacious sounds and looped layers of Dawn's voice will be complimented by fresh visuals from Self-Service. Look for copies of Repair's limited-edition CD of rarities and previously unreleased tracks being unveiled at this concert. http://www.repair-lab.com Between Sets CD + Video - "Thursday Afternoon" by Brian Eno "Seven video-paintings of Christine Alicino" filmed in San Francisco in April 1984 and treated and assembled at Sony in Tokyo. The music was recorded at Daniel Lanois' studio in Hamilton and this video sound-track has a different mix than on the CD. * Please Note - This is a "Vertical Format" video intended for a TV that's been turned on its side, so we'll understand if we see you lying sideways on the bar. http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming January 12th - ARC with Pholde + low frequency pilot http://fade.to/arc http://www.pholde.com http://www.soundclick.com/bands/4/lowfrequencypilot.htm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||: THE LOOP :|| "Arms Full of Sound and Fury" by Luna Tek THE AMBiENT PiNG wrapped up its Tuesday night series at The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom on December 4th, 2004 with "Journey to Ambientia Part 2" by Paul Needler, aka Arms Full of Sound. PiNG enthusiasts hunkered down in the ballroom while, outside, gale-force winds threatened to bring down the scaffolding that adorns the west side of the Gladstone these days. Building momentum for our "Journey to Ambientia," Arms Full of Sound began with a piece titled "Rhythmic Universe". Amidst the drifting melodic textures of the first set were images of planets, asteroids and lava lamps oozing like amoebas-in-motion. Arms Full of Sound's pulsing rhythms were especially effective alongside the forest imagery that closed the set. Needler pushed the journey motif further in a 2nd set titled "Journey's End". While the 2nd set covered the same terrain visually, it was more varied musically. Both sets integrated familiar sound symbols - church bells, for example - into their electronic soundscapes, creating soundmarks to guide the listeners' journey. Always forward-thinking, PiNG organizers ended the evening by preparing for the next leg of THE AMBiENT PiNG's own journey to a new venue downtown. Once thank-yous and good-byes were extended to Gladstone staff, The PiNG blew out of the Gladstone's drafty ballroom, quietly anticipating the warmth of the Tequila Lounge in the New Year. More information about Arms Full of Sound's "Journey to Ambientia" is available at http://www.armsfullofsound.com. Luna Tek - luna@theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews As ping things looks forward to a new year at the AMBiENT PiNG (at a brand new location!) we can't help but be a little nostalgic for the year that's passed. 2004 was an absolutely fabulous year for new music in the electronic disciplines, with a variety of wonderful releases by both established artists in the field and new talents who have just begun their careers. Jonathan Hughes' "Fluidities" was a fascinating reworking of the collaborative ideal, featuring a pair of discs meant to be simultaneously played in random order in an effort to create new sound environments with each listen. A brilliant exercise in the ambient ideal. http://www.pingthings.com/HUGHESfluidities.htm The wonderful people at Piehead Records put out their third subscription series in 2004 which included some of the best music they've released to date. Discs by Building Castles out of Matchsticks and *cough*metrostarman*cough* were some of my favorites this year. http://www.pingthings.com/BUILDING.htm http://www.pingthings.com/SICgorilla.htm http://www.pingthings.com/METROSTARMANdog.htm Deane Hughes of Akumu released his disc "Fluxes" based around a series of field recordings made on a recent trip to South America. The manipulation of these pieces and the attention to spatial detail therein are the work of true talents who have tapped into a different state of environmental consciousness. http://www.pingthings.com/AKUMUfluxes.htm Steve Roach released a number of discs this year, all of them beautiful works that live up to and surpass his reputation as one of the most talented artists in the genre. Of particular note were his Fever Dream releases ), two discs that take the listener on a journey through beautiful and mystical places, a hyper reality akin to the most intense of reveries. http://www.pingthings.com/SRfeverdreams.htm http://www.pingthings.com/SRholding.htm Eric Hopper released a new disc called "Dreamlife" under his guise as Sylken which is a stunning collection of emotional spaces and beautiful new vistas. Featuring the talents of frequent collaborator Steven Sauve, cheryl o, Gregory Kyryluk and Wally Jericho, "Dreamlife" is a perfect travelogue for those lands we visit between waking moments. http://www.pingthings.com/SYLKENdreamlife.htm And speaking of Eric, he also did a fantastic job curating the PiNG AMBiENCE 2 disc featuring an incredible collection of PiNG artists both near and far. Including tracks by Aidan Baker, dreamSTATE, Sylken, Sara Ayers & more, PA2 is an essential compilation that surely deserves to be in every ambient fan's collection. http://www.pingthings.com/PINGAMBIENCE2.htm These are just a few of the fantastic releases that came out this past year. Perhaps you'd like to check out the ping things site at http://www.pingthings.com to find some more of the music that made 2004 such a memorable year. rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com Send an e-mail to pingthings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for updates on *all* the latest releases on sale at ping things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Attention Artists - "Artists Support Asia - A Call For Help" Artists Support Asia was started by Stefan Koopmanschap, a dutch electronic musician. Together with a whole bunch of people from various online communities, he is trying to raise as much money as possible to help the victims of the tidal waves by creating CDs for sale from the best tracks submitted for this project. Ambient music is welcomed but shorter tracks are preferred to increase the number of artists on the disc(s). wav. files will need to be uploaded after mp3s are appoved. All monies will go to 'Giro 555' of the "Samenwerkende Hulp Organisaties" (Collaborating Aid Organizations). This is the central place where organizations such as the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Memisa, Unicef, Novib, Terre Des Hommes & a selection of local organizations are organized to raise funds for this disaster. I can personally vouch for Stefan as being an honourable human who will do what he states with your work for this project (as dreamSTATE has previously contributed work for an earlier disaster-relief project he organised for the Enschede explosion in The Netherlands, on May 13th 2000). Stefan is also looking for people on different continents to contribute by making some phonecalls for him in their respective countries, and maybe, to do some work in the distribution department as well. Complete info can be found at http://www.artistssupportasia.org/about.php Thanks - Scott M2 (dreamSTATE / The PiNG) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG presents live performances by Toronto's finest ambient, chillout and experimental music artists plus performers from across the continent, every Wednesday evening at THE TEQUiLA LOUNGE - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor. http://www.theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forward this e-mail to any friends who may be interested in live ambient, chillout and experimental music performances or to any of your appropriate newsgroups. Thanks.
