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the PiNG presents iomedia
THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com
Tuesdays @ HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor - Toronto
(upstairs - directly across from the Bathurst subway station)
Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan
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THiS Tuesday, January 31st . iomedia
(Neil Wiernik, Mantissa, Rob Cruickshank, Dafydd Hughes,
Len Goins, Michael Trommer, Oliver Heinrich, David McCallum,
VJ Nokami and Ben Bogart)
iomedia is a collaborative collective of sound and video artists
exploring real-time performance in an improvised construction
that is reminiscent of 1960's free-jazz. The fluctuating group
of participants utilize a wide variety of instruments to make
their audio/video compositions, including homemade
hardware, customized software applications, analog
synthesizers, samplers, and video mixers. Members of the
group also experiment with performance techniques such
as live sampling, real-time sample manipulation, and
audio/video interaction. The group is associated with
the InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Toronto
and performs there on a monthly basis.
On Jan 31st, iomedia will be:
audio: Neil Wiernik, Mantissa, Rob Cruickshank, Dafydd Hughes,
Len Goins, Michael Trommer, Oliver Heinrich and David McCallum
video: VJ Nokami and Ben Bogart
0930-1020 iomedia . 1025-1045 Ben Bogart . 1050-1140 iomedia
iomedia . http://www.mantissa.ca/iomedia
Mantissa . http://www.mantissa.ca
Ben Bogart . http://www.ekran.org/ben
Neil Wiernik . http://www.naw.phoniq.net
Nokami . www.nokami.com
Len Goins . www.mortmain.com
Dafydd Hugues . http://www.sideshowmedia.ca
Rob Cruickshank . http://www.robcruickshank
David McCallum . http://www.sintheta.org
InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre .
http://www.interaccess.org
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Before Sets CD . Transparent Planet by Numina
As part of his ongoing re-release project, Jesse Sola of Numina
has remastered and reissued this long out of print disc which
is an excellent collection of early Numina music. Read about
it here in rik's *ping things* CD review below and hear it
Tuesday @ the PiNG. http://www.numinamusic.com
No Between Set CD this week.
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COMiNG Tuesday February 7th 2006 . Arms Full of Sound
"Journey To Ambientia Winter"
Journey to Ambientia 2: Seasons, is the year long project from
Arms Full of Sound that will take you back to that special place,
deep within the ambient mind. On the last journey, you were taken
to the powerful place called Ambientia, where you were able to
explore its strange ways of music. The Traveler is still there
trapped in the timeless world of music. We now embark on the
year-long journey to help the Traveler come home. We return
to Ambientia and experience what the Traveler has
learned so that we may help him home.
The seasons change one into another and back again. Our journey
begins again. All must end where it began.
Arms Full of Sound is an Ambient-Electronic music performer formed
4 years ago by Paul Needler. Using a large compliment of analog,
digital and software synthesizers, Arms Full of Sound produces live
blends of ambient music, usually all improvisational.
http://www.armsfullofsound.com
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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews
As part of his ongoing re-release project, Jesse Sola of Numina has
remastered and reissued his long out of print "Transparent Planet"
disc, an album showcasing some of Sola's earlier work. It's an
excellent collection of tracks and a wonderful insight into the
talents and wonder inherent in the music of Numina from
the very beginning of Sola's musical career.
Opening with "A Distant Gaze, Then Silence" we're treated to a
number of pads and waves interweaving around each other.
Shaken tones tremble on the periphery and other sounds rise
up to be heard for only an instant before disappearing into the
soundpool. Simply lovely work. Track two, "Further Entwined
(Early Mix)", is a slightly darker track, minor key chords swelling
up and gaining in strength, the sounds of a moonlit tide ebbing
and flowing. The sounds of darkness, vaguely unsettling, but
still very engaging, drawing us in like a long standing mystery.
This leads into "The Vacant Domain", a slowly building drone
based piece where vague melodies and the sounds of steam
continue to beguile the listener. It's quite a moving piece, very
emotive despite it's minimal elements, a testimony to Sola's
abilities. "Beyond Infinity" follows, a pulsing phrase repeating
itself overtop a thick, shimmering wave. It's hypnotic, speaking
to blood memory and collective DNA, slowly growing and shifting
while alien voices are heard faintly in the background. A fine
example of the kind of magic that fans of Numina have come to
expect from his releases. "Interlude for K" is up next, a strikingly
beautiful piece of music, an aural landscape where sweeping
pads and waves create images of lush spaces and warm
environments. You can't help but feel you are there, a secret
location of wonder and magic formed through the music.
"From a Darkened Path" features a haunting chorus of voices,
the suggestion of woodwinds from distant planets accompanied
by strange music unlike anything we're familiar with here on
Earth. A visit to alien worlds, new cultures laid out before us
to be seen and experienced. We return to more familiar (but
no less beautiful) environments with "The Moments Before the
Glass Shattered", a musical tone poem capturing a brief instant
in time, a second of purity before change. Phrases repeat and
morph, allowing us to examine them from a variety of angles,
sides, shapes, forms, all in an effort to show the truth of that
particular time. The disc closes with "Dustclouds on the Horizon",
a slow cascade of tones that blends together to create a
kaleidoscopic soundfield, shifting and changing as the song
progresses. Beautiful.
As with all his later releases, "Transparent Planet" is a fine
showcase of Jesse Sola's talents as an ambient artist. From
the way that he is able to manipulate sound to create a new
atmosphere for the listener, to his ability to wring emotion and
feeling from his work, to the way that he is able to create
beautiful and striking work from such minimal sources, all
of Sola's talents are on display in fine form. An excellent
collection from the Numina back catalogue.
"Transparent Planet" by Numina is available now at ping things!
http://www.pingthings.com/NUMINAtransparent.htm
rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com
http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things
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* Other Toronto area sonic/visual events of interest this week:
* Thursday, February 2nd . Improvisors' Pool
Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen Street East
East of Broadview and west of De Grassi
7:00-9:00
* Thursday, February 2nd . Coexistence Series #4
A monthly series of duet collaborations, this month featuring:
John Wilson - guitar
Colin Anthony - piano
TRANZAC 292 Brunswick Ave
7:30pm
* Friday, February 3rd . Interface Fundraiser Series
in association with Arraymusic and AIMT
i - Dutton / Piilonen / Yue / Morse w/ paul dutton - voice,
rob piilonen - flute, andy yue - piano, michael morse - bass
ii - I Have Eaten the City
w/ colin fisher - tenor sax/guitar, nick storring - cello/laptop,
brandon valdivia - drums
iii - Bateman / Bichan / Anthony / Luciani
w/ victor bateman - bass, dougal bichan - violin/bamboo flute,
colin anthony - piano, jeff luciani - drums
9:00pm ARRAYMUSIC Studio 60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 218 $15
* Saturday, February 4th . Canadian Music Centre Continues
Province-Wide Professional Readings Series in 2006
Toronto Wind Orchestra, conducted by Tony Gomes, read
previously unperformed works for winds, brass and percussion by
composers Arsenio Giron and Elma Miller.
1 – 2:30 PM, Laidlaw Hall, Upper Canada College FREE ADMISSION
* Saturday, February 4th . LEARK presents AN ELECTRONIC
ZEN GARDEN - Performance of interactive installation piece
“An Electronic Zen Garden” by LEARK (Live Electro Acoustic
Research Kitchen), a Kingston, ON based electroacoustic
collective whose founding members include Kristi Allik,
Mike Cassells, Aglaia Lessard, David McCallum,
Robert Mulder and Adam Tindale.
$15 regular/$10 member + senior/$5 student
8PM The Music Gallery, 197 John St.
* Saturday, February 4th . Interface Fundraiser Series
in association with Arraymusic and AIMT
i - Todd Biffard's "Apparatus" w/ todd biffard - drums,
kiran sachdev - guitar, adam teixeira - drums, matt roberts - bass,
mike glendon - tenor, dan corbett - trombone
ii - Lerner / Nachoff / Higgins w/ marilyn lerner - piano,
quinsin nachoff - tenor saxophone, bret higgins - bass
iii - Elie Katzin Trio
w/ elie katzin - guitar, scott peterson - bass, nick fraser - drums
9:00pm ARRAYMUSIC Studio 60 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 218 $15
* Sunday, February 5th . Interface Fundraiser Series
in association with Arraymusic and AIMT
i - Peebles / Haley / Driver
w/ sarah peebles - laptop, mixing bowls, bees
geordie haley - red pre-peared guitar 'nd efx,
ryan driver - analog synth and thumb reeds
ii - Paydirt w/ dafydd hughes - laptop, dave clark - drums,
joe lapinski - guitar
iii - Hansen / Keith
w/ mike hansen - turntable, michael keith - guitar
4pm NOW Lounge 189 Church St. $15
* Sunday, February 5th . CONTINUUM: PLAYING IN TONGUES
premieres of three newly commissioned works by composers
Peter Hatch - Five Memos, Michael Oesterle - Heuristic Imitations
and Patrick Saint-Denis - zone confortable
+ Argentinean-American Fernando Benadon - Meet Café
$20 regular/$10 seniors + arts workers/$5 students
8PM The Music Gallery, 197 John St.
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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 Tuesday evening at HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor.
http://www.theambientping.com
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