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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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.