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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06.07.11 . THE AMBiENT PiNG presents PETiTION OF RiGHT featuring JAKOB THIESEN + DEB SINHA and BEN GROSSMAN: field + SOUNS @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave . Kensington Market just south of College . Map, info and directions at: http://www.supermarkettoronto.com/site/section/contact Tues. June 7th . Doors open at 8:30 . 1st set at 8:45 . $6 8:45 . JAKOB THIESEN . This Toronto based musician and sound designer has been exploring electronic and acoustic sound for over 10 years. Jakob's love for film is apparent in all his works, his numerous independent music releases and his film and television sound design for filmmakers have all focused on the malleability of sound and the emotional and cerebral impacts that entail. Although it's been a number of years since Jakob last performed at the PiNG, he was a regular in the early PiNG years performing as Self Service and as part of the fabled AMBiENT PiNG ORCHESTRA. In more recent times, Jakob provided the PiNG with a tape of his visuals which we regularly played when the Chaos guys took the night off. For his upcoming set at the PiNG, he'll be performing his recent ambient audio and visual explorations. 9:45 . DEB SINHA and BEN GROSSMAN: field . Ben and Deb have wide backgrounds as performers, composers, improvisers, sound designers and, in Deb's case, video artists. For years, they have been discussing their history in traditional and 'world' music in light of their interests in new music, sound art, improvisation and experimental sound and video. Having performed together in an occasional improvised duo, they decided to somewhat formalize their work together, join forces and defeat the legions of evil, and create a new context for performance: field field is an environment for improvised sound and video performance. Ben's hurdy gurdy is a contemporary, electro-acoustic instrument with roots in the European middle ages. Through extended techniques, live-looping and processing, Ben seeks to use it as a physical interface into improvised sound creation, spontaneous composition and the exploration of acoustics, form and extended aesthetics. For field, Deb is using video and visual sources outside of the culturally driven semiotics of his previous work - to explore code and programming, focusing on form and process. For tonight's performance, Deb will also be contributing digitally generated audio based on analogous processes. 10:45 . SOUNS . Michael Red, aka Souns, is a Vancouver based music producer, performer, DJ and event organizer. Michael is the founding member of Lighta! Sound, acting captain of the Low Indigo ship, regular collaborator with Tanya Tagaq and music curator for New Forms Festival. As a live performer, Michael combines his “sound art” side with his summed DJ experience - blending layered atmospheres, subtle details, and improvised manipulations with a dance floor sensibility. Upfront beats can quickly scatter to polyrhythmic tangents and back again. Nearly untraceable pulses can eventually merge to create fully living and breathing landscapes. Playing more with the tension side of tension-and-release is common theme, along with an ever present dub-wise approach to FX, bass, and overall treatment. Michael's bass music sets can vary greatly in tempo and feel - traversing the many modes of dubstep, future and roots dub, heaters, select rap and modern r'n'b cuts, dancehall fusions, post-dubstep and genre-less music in between. Whatever the flavours being played, one almost in-escapable common thread is dub soundsystem mentality. Unplanned experiments and risks, echo, delay and space.. deep space.. deep water. it can get as emotional as it can get hype. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COMiNG SOON . TUESDAY JULY 12th 2011 . MYSTERY MOON OF MARS featuring SPACENOIZ + AMOEBA STARFISH . TUESDAY AUGUST 16th 2011 . XII DECADE.2 THE AMBiENT PiNG's 12TH ANNiVERSARY featuring TRANSMORPHOUS SOUND ENSEMBLE + GEEK WEEKEND + quasiMODAL @ 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 8 . 1st set at 8:30 . $6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a new free download from the ping things net label: "Smoke in a High Room" by Lorde Awesome, Cymbl, and James Thomson ping things is pleased to release "Smoke in a High Room", a collaboration between Lorde Awesome, Cymbl, and James Thomson. Featuring six tracks of organic pre-apocalypse mutant jazz, "Smoke in a High Room" is a strong collection of improvisational work from four very tight musicians. "Smoke in a High Room" is available for free download as a 133Mb Zip file containing the full release in 320kbps mp3 format along with artwork suitable for printing. The music on this release is copyright Lorde Awesome, Cymbl, and James Thomson 2011 and may not be used or reproduced without the artist's express permission. http://pingthings.blogspot.com/2011/06/download-smoke-in-high-room.html Check out the ping things blog for more free download releases from the ping things net label. http://pingthings.blogspot.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG is a Toronto based creative community of 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. http://www.theambientping.com The PiNG also has a Twitter account to send you advance updates and reminders of the when & where of future PiNG events. Just search for ambientping to find us. http://twitter.com We're also on facebook too, again just search THE AMBiENT PiNG. http://www.facebook.com ViSiT the ping things store for ambient, electronic and chill things: http://www.pingthings.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forward this e-mail to any interested friends or appropriate newsgroups. Thanks.