Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 01.10.12 . THE AMBiENT PiNG presents THE RETURN OF THE
dreamSTATE DRONE CYCLE 2012 . Part One . (C)
featuring dreamSTATE with HEIKI plus sets by Treeotica + HEIKI
+ projections by General Chaos Visuals
@ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave . Kensington Market
just south of College . Map, info and directions at:
http://www.supermarkettoronto.com/site/section/contact
Tues. Jan. 10th . Doors open at 8:00 . 1st set at 8:30 . $6
. For those of you living far from Toronto, the PiNG will be
broadcast on VooDooTV.
Supermarket audio/video technician Johnny Trelawny has
set up a live internet broadcast system VooDoo TV which
will be streaming the entire AMBiENT PiNG event
beginning at 8:30pm EST. Here's the URL:
http://www.livestream.com/voodootv1
. 8:30 . TREEOTICA . Treeotica is an accidental instrument.
Originally beginning as a tree branch carving, it collided with
curiosity, a guitar FX pedal and a cough. David Shelley gathered
branches, carried them home then removed the bark and whittled
the branch ends into shapes resembling fingers. Over the course
of year or so he accumulated many branch carvings. At some point
with a much larger carving he tapped one of the branches and it
resonated a soft tone, elsewhere a deeper tone and he wondered
if he could amplify these vibrations. Perhaps they could be
percussion sticks as used to drum on a djembe. David's percussive
journey led him to experimenting with a guitar FX pedal. Years later
exploring different woods and converting the FX pedal to respond to
taps and vibrations on a branch - Life was bestowed upon the tree
branch. Further curiosities led to adding a cello string, sound
card and Led Zepplin’s Stairway To Heaven music box. So
now, David carves Rhythmic Salvation and Sonics Natura.
. 9:30 . dreamSTATE with HEIKI . Long-time PiNGers will remember
dreamSTATE's epic year-long journey up through the chromatic scale
in THE DRONE CYCLE 2000. On the "chromatic anniversary" of the
Drone Cycle 2000, they begin the Cycle again, with new special
guests & traverse the scale back downward: January in C,
February in B... as they bring the Drone home.
dreamSTATE's special guest this month is Heiki Sillaste, probably
best known for his work in his groups Digital Poodle, Kinder Atom
and Lazer Caps and for his labels Paper+Sound, nice+smooth and
Shadow Canada. He'll be squeezing out delicious electronic juice.
As in 2000, sometimes the Drone note will only be implied as
dreamSTATE and guest explore new soundspace together, but
it will always remain the foundation and home for each concert.
In 2012 you can bet they will also be exploring drone-based
grooves during the journeys - especially with artists like Heiki.
In 2000 dreamSTATE only dreamed of having ambient visuals.
In 2012 they are very, very happy to have analog visual greats
General Chaos Visuals along for the trip.
http://www.dreamstate.to
. 10:30 . HEIKI . Heiki (Hey-Key) is a veteran of the Toronto
electronic music scene. Since 1987, Heiki Sillaste has released
an impressive catalogue of well over 45 synthesizer-based
records and made over 150 compilation appearances.
Heiki will be performing tracks from his latest release Sauna Porch
Recordings Co., a collection of new music entirely composed and
recorded on the porch of the rustic sauna cabin his father designed
and built in Georgian Bay over 35 years ago.
Heiki made these recordings by creating a live, chilled soundtrack
first, then sitting back and absorbing the Georgian Bay lake view and
natural surroundings for inspiration. Occasionally he would set up a
microphone, record, and then process the natural sounds of the
surroundings – the wind, the birds, the rustling of leaves in the wind,
people swimming, or motorboats and canoes passing by. Most of the
initial music was quickly recorded as loops in the morning then slowly
built up over the course of a day. Songs were then revisited, treated,
layered and re-built over the course of a few weeks (or years, in
some cases). Washes of sound were created by processing the field
recordings then layering them with synthesizer tones and sequences,
creating a fusion of natural and synthesized resonances. Sauna Porch
Recordings Co. is released in download format and a strictly limited
250 copy digipack edition.
http://www.paperplusound.com/wordpress/?page_id=42
. GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS . For 2012, Stephen Lindsey and
Eric Siegerman are back to warm up and paint the room with their
evolving light paintings. http://www.generalchaosvisuals.ca
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. BETWEEN SETS we'll be featuring music from "Climate Adaptive
Capacity" by naw and "Spectral Omissions" by Chromosphere.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
COMiNG SOON:
. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7th 2012 . The Return of the
dreamSTATE DRONE CYCLE 2012 . Part Two . (B)
featuring dreamSTATE with Matthew Poulakakis +
GENERAL CHAOS VISUALS plus a set by NOiNO
@ 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:
"The Zen of Zero" by Reinholt56
For their last release of 2011, ping things is very pleased to
present the latest from Reinholt56, "The Zen of Zero". Featuring
three instrumental pieces that slowly and subtly shift moods as
the album progresses, "The Zen of Zero" is a quietly meditative
release that we're happy to share with you.
"The Zen of Zero" is available for free download as a 125Mb Zip
file containing the full release in mp3 format along with artwork
suitable for printing. The music on this release is copyright
Reinholt56 2011 and may not be used or reproduced
without the artist's express permission.
http://pingthings.blogspot.com/2011/12/download-zen-of-zero-by-reinholt56.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.