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THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com Wednesdays @ HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor (directly across from the Bathurst subway station) - Toronto Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This Wednesday May 18th - RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 featuring Anna Fritz and Alison Cameron with Stephen Parkinson Allison Cameron uses contact mics to amplify small things. She creates textured pieces with radios, samplers, tapes, Casio Sax and various toys. She has been the artistic director of Arraymusic and has been improvising in collaboration with Martin Arnold, Éric Chenaux, the Draperies, Ryan Driver, Dan Friedman, Mike Gennaro, Kurt Newman, John Oswald and many others. Her compositions have been performed by the likes of Arraymusic, Eve Egoyan, Les Couscous Bénévoles, Maarten Altena Ensemble and the Bang On A Can All-Stars. Allison will bring special guest Stephen Parkinson on electric guitar. http://composers21.com/compdocs/camerona.htm In the second set, Montreal radio artist Anna Friz presents a radio solo for all things transmissible - live and treated. Tactile transmissions of piezo mics and theremin, with an accompanying buzz of shortwave. http://www.soundscape-fm.net/userinfo.php?id=41 Between Sets CD - "Deep Wireless 2004" by David Pritchard, Scott M2 and Byron Wong We'll be featuring a live recording from the "Deep Wireless 2004" event at the PiNG with radio legend David Pritchard improvising with dreamSTATE's Scott M2 and multi-instrumentalist Byron Wong. http://www.theambientping.com/david_pritchard.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Coming Wed. May 25th - Mahogany Frog and Ben Grossman www.mahoganyfrog.ca http://www.macrophone.org . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ||: IN THE LOOP :|| by Luna Tek New Adventures in Sound Art continued its month-long radio art celebration with a concert at THE AMBiENT PiNG on Wed. May 11, 2005. RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 1 featured experimental looping cellist cheryl o with special guests Ben Grossman (short-wave radio/live sampling w/fx and Vielle a Roue aka Drehleier aka Hurdy Gurdy), Rob Piilonen (flute), Steven Sauve (synthesizer) and Jennifer Gillmor (kamel n'goni (a West African harp-like instrument that is closely related to the kora) and bass guitar). Members of the ensemble used samples from live radio during the show, adding an element of randomness to their freely improvised pieces and creating an edgy, symphonic effect. The second set was particularly magical with cheryl o’s melancholy cello lines and Jen’s kamel n'goni riffs sweeping over the melodic textures created by Stephen and Rob. Ben’s live radio samples put the radio in ambience by adding yet another layer of complexity to the ensemble’s free-form improvisations. Deep Wireless - http://www.deepwireless.ca cheryl o - http://www.cellojuice.com Steven Sauve - http://www.karmafarm.ca Ben Grossman - http://www.macrophone.org Jen Gillmor - http://www.svdesign.ca/Sound-Intro.html Luna Tek - luna@theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews "All Your Dreams Are Meaningless" by coin gutter Vancouver's coingutter have developed a strong reputation as talented electronic experimentalists, and listening to their release "All Your Dreams Are Meaningless" it's easy to see why. "Lift with the Knees" opens the disc, a long form piece made of a variety of movements, ranging from abrasive noise to soothing drones, gaining a certain shape and substance over time, ultimately resulting in a feeling of poetic order. A series of eight shorter pieces follow, with styles ranging from the processed piano and vocals of "Lullaby" where movements are interspersed by blasts of radio static, to the short, sharp shock that is "no5", through the deceptive meditations of "Solitaire", and finally ending with the slight shifts and subtle nuance of "Southern Yukon/Northern B.C. (and perhaps parts of Alaska)". Coingutter have a remarkable ability to find musicality in unlikely places. They aren't afraid to travel in different directions than their peers, and they aren't afraid of taking chances with sound to create something original. "All Your Dreams Are Meaningless" is a testimony to their skills and a fine example of where music can take you when you're willing to trust your instincts. Recommended. rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things Send an e-mail to pingthings-subscribe@yahoogroups.com for updates on *all* the latest releases on sale at ping things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 across the continent, every Wednesday evening at HACiENDA - 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.