10.26.10 > The PiNG presents Freida Abtan + Holzkopf + Nick Storring+ Worker + The Nausea (Anju Singh)

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. 10.26.10 THE AMBiENT PiNG presents FAR SiDE OF THE MOON
featuring FREIDA ABTAN + HOLZKOPF + NICK STORRING
+ WORKER + THE NAUSEA (ANJU SINGH)

@ Supermarket  . 268 Augusta Ave . Kensington Market .
     just south of College  .  Map, info and directions at:
     http://www.supermarkettoronto.com/site/section/contact
     Tues. Oct. 26th . Doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

. Freida Abtan . Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary
artist and composer. Her music falls somewhere in between
musique concrete and more modern noise and experimental
audio and both genres are influential to her sound. Her work
has been compared to bands such as Coil, and Zoviet France,
and to that of performers such as Andrew Liles because of her
use of spectral manipulation and collage.

Freida primarily works with samples of both musical and non-musical
objects that she records herself and then manipulates, often beyond
recognition, through techniques derived from musique concrète and
through successive layers of digital signal processing. She uses
structures reminiscent of popular music and more abstract
compositional variants to sequence these sounds into melodic
songs before incorporating her own treated voice.

As well as having created visual shows for and performed with the
internationally renown group Nurse with Wound, Freida has presented
her own sound and visual work at festivals across North America and
Europe. Her first album "subtle movements" is available on United
Dairies / Jnana Records. Her upcoming release "the hands of the
dancer" will be available on Robot Records.

. Holzkopf . Since 2001, Holzkopf has been developing a style
of hypnotic and frenetic dance music made from a mishmash
of homemade tape collages, blown out drum machine beats,
dumpstered Chinese pop cassettes, raw data noise, barely
controlled feedback and smashed and grabbed found sounds.
The sound is reminiscent of proto-industrial, disco, hip-hop, global
psychedelia, gospel and breakcore synthesized into a complete
unique whole unlike any one component part. This is futurist and
anarchist music made on cheap gear, recorded live to tape or dusty
old hard drives. It embodies the spirits of rotting architecture and
100 year old brothels, the wide open spaces of the Canadian prairies
and the angst and anger of battling slum-lords, debt and panic.
More than anything else though, the music is a celebration.
Celebration, after all, is the best form of protest. Sharing the
stage with Princesse Rotative, Cex, Electric Kettle, Andrew Duke,
Maladroit, Botborg, the Shearing Pinx, Sam Shalabi, Knurl,
Emil Beaulieau and many others over multiple tours through
Canada and Europe (in squats, clubs, backyards and under
bridges), a Holzkopf performance is always a spontaneous,
raw and one of a kind experience.

. Nick Storring . Composer, cellist, electronic musician and freelance
journalist based out of Toronto. An omnivorous listener, I also make
a wide range of music spanning abstract electronica, chamber music,
fake world music to extensions of house and New Jack Swing! I play
in the bands Picastro and I Have Eaten The City and routinely
collaborate with various artists of other disciplines: dance,
installation, theatre and film.

. Worker + The Nausea (Anju Singh) . Both of these Vancouver
based artists share a serious passion for sound art, drone and
electronics. Worker does lots of circuit bending and modified
electronics and The Nausea (Anju Singh) does mostly ambient
and meditative drones via feedback, violins, etc. Anju also runs
experimental series in Vancouver called fake jazz wednesdays
for the sake of fun and experimentation!

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COMiNG SOON:

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 23rd 2010 - DECRYiNG CENSORSHiP
featuring AMOEBA STARFISH + MICHAEL HOLCER
+ BENJAMIN ELFASSY & ERIC HOPPER
@ Supermarket  . 268 Augusta Ave . Kensington Market .
     just south of College  .  Map, info and directions at:
     http://www.supermarkettoronto.com/site/section/contact
     PiNG doors open at 8pm . 1st set at 8:30 . $6

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audio artists, performers, musicians and visual artists. The PiNG
presents live multimedia performances featuring ambient, electronic,
soundscape, space, drone, psychedelic, chillout, downtempo,
darkwave and experimental artists from around the world.
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