THE AMBiENT PiNG returns to Handlebar in Toronto on Monday August 19th, 2024 for its 25th Anniversary show! (Doors at 8pm, 1st set 9pm - PWYC)

Featured are the first three artists who ever played the PiNG, way back in 1999, and all are still active sonic performers: Wally Jericho will bring his horn, iPad synths and live-looping to open the show, then dreamSTATE will weave an electronic sound tapestry with their special guest Kurt Swinghammer, playing the unique Soma Terra instrument, and finally, Planet of the Loops leader Andrew Aldridge will launch into a high orbit and then will be joined by the other artists to create a Canadian Space Station.

All of these artists are also dreamSTATE's special guests in The Drone Cycle - recorded live at THE AMBiENT PiNG in 2000 and being released throughout 2024. dreamSTATE's piece with Andrew will be released on August 22nd.

Jamie Todd, Kurt Swinghammer and Scott M2 at August 19th, 2024

dreamSTATE perform for their 11th annual DRONE DAY on May 25th 2024
in the beautiful Trinity St. Paul's Church, 427 Bloor St. West near Spadina.
For the second half of their set they will be joined by
thier longtime musical friend Eric Hopper (Sylken).

Please note that no food or drink is allowed in the Sanctuary
except for water and reusable bottles are encouraged.

dreamSTATE begin at 2pm and their set will be followed by
an open community drone session from DRONE:KLUB.

Come and immerse yourself in the soundspace in honour of The Drone!
This is a free event.

If you're in the Stouffville Ontario area, dreamSTATE
will be performing a one-hour chillout set at 8pm on January 19th,
as part of the Intimate and Electronic evening for the
Wintersong Festival 2024. It looks to be a fun rave-throwback
multi-media event. There may be glowsticks!

It's a free event but you can secure advance tickets and find full details here.

dreamSTATE and their spacy friends Scott Lepore, Fantastic Realms, Not Your Average
Worker Bees, The Eclipse Project and Sylken & URM play for the 10th annual Drone Day in an online broadcast from THE PiNG LiVE iN SPACE.

dreamSTATE have prepared footage from their 1st Drone Day performance in 2014 and a recent outside outer-space drone-session and will also stream a live-set from the studio to close the show.

Jamie Todd and Scott M2 at TEMOM 05 - Photo by Carl Armstrong

dreamSTATE perform a short set at TEMOM 05 - the Toronto Electronic Music Open Mic event - part of the EMOM movement growing across the globe.

For its 25th Anniversary, dreamSTATE remounts their "waveforms"
quadraphonic ambient sound installation in Earlscourt Park, Toronto,
as part of THE AMBiENT PiNG's 23rd Anniversary celebrations.
Full details here.

In honour of The Drone, THE AMBiENT PiNG presents a free Evening Drones concert online. Tune in to www.twitch.tv/ambientping at 9:00pm ET for new performances by dreamSTATE and Friends.

This will be dreamSTATE's 9th Drone Day performance on their favourite holiday and they're bringing some friends to play too! There will be delicious drones cooked with love from Anne Sulikowski, Northumbria, Jaja, Intrepita, Beau Lukes, and URM.

In honour of The Drone, THE AMBiENT PiNG presents a free Evening Drones concert online. Tune in to www.twitch.tv/ambientping at 8:00pm ET for new performances by dreamSTATE and Friends.

dreamSTATE are joined on their 8th Drone Day celebration by some of their musical friends JP King, Shimmer Crush, Scott Lepore, Not Your Average Worker Bees and Weep, O' Mine Eyes.

dreamSTATE, Matthew Florianz (Cambridge, UK), Chuck van Zyl (Upper Darby, USA), Igneous Flame [Pete Kelly] (York, UK), and Jaja [Jana Rockstroh] (Wuppertal, Germany) all contributed premiere performance videos for Day 2 of THE AMBiENT PiNG's 21st Anniversary celebration.

Watch and listen now on YouTube and download both entire shows for free at the PiNG's Bandcamp.

A screenshot from the dreamSTATE performance video for Nothing and Everything.

Drone Day founder Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanigan has proclaimed Saturday May 30th 2020 as the date for the Seventh annual National Drone Day. dreamSTATE have performed live for every Drone Day but this year, like most other artists, they will be playing via the internet at Twitch.tv/AMBiENTPiNG.

dreamSTATE will be performing two sets outdoors at 7pm ET on Saturday May 30th in high-quality stereo sound with General Chaos and other visuals plus the live-outside cameras at Twitch.tv/AMBiENTPiNG.

Between sets will be the premiere of a new drone music video by Dirty Inputs (audio/visual artist Aaron Dawson) and a new drone video from Sara Wray Enns of Victoria, BC. Her piece Flushing is composed of both vocals and field recordings, and is a follow up to an installation piece from last summer.

Full details on Facebook.

dreamSTATE return to THE AMBiENT PiNG with their longtime musical friend,
the amazing Wally Jericho, on trumpet, sax and virtual synths.

At Handlebar - 159 Augusta Avenue, Toronto in Kensington Market.

DRONE:KLUB:34, the open community Drone improvisation at the Roland Inspiration Centre
- 001-1179 King Street W . Toronto on March 24th, 2020 at 7pm
has been postponed until future notice to support the current needs for social distancing.

Complete details at the Facebook Event page

dreamSTATE's Scott M2 will perform on modular synth as part of the Exit Points ensemble improv series at Hirut - 2050 Danforth Ave. Toronto on POSTPONED!

Performers will be: Anne Bourne (amplified cello, voice, and stones)
Yunjin Claire Lee (synths, live-processing)
Cayce Fisher (modular synth)
Joel Ong (electronics)
Scott McGregor Moore (modular synth)
Curtis Whitaker (drums/percussion)
Michael Palumbo (modular synth).

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URM, the solo project for dreamSTATE's Jamie Todd, performs a set at the first AMBiENT PiNG of 2020.

Also on the bill are Ben McCarthy and Tour Winters Are Like Summers Here.

At Handlebar - 159 Augusta Avenue, Toronto in Kensington Market.
Doors open at 8pm, 1st set at 8:30pm.

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Once upon a time, long ago, before even THE AMBiENT PiNG was born, Planet Of The Loops achieved earth orbit and colourful sonic auroras began to fill the night skies of Toronto on a regular basis. Founded and led by Andrew Aldridge, the rotating crew of loopers from the Planet spun hours of delicious looping improvisations and always with large helpings of ambience.

A migration from the Planet to the PiNG was a natural flow and all the earliest PiNG performers were Planetary Crew. The PiNG (then weekly) soon began hosting Planet Of The Loops on a monthly basis and their orbital paths were entwined for many years.

For the THE AMBiENT PING's 20th Anniversary show, the Planet was invited back for a night of looping improvisations with a veteran POTL crew selected from the PiNG's 1st year of performances:
Andrew Aldridge - guitar
Wally Jericho (the 1st artist to play the PiNG on Aug. 17th, 1999) - trumpet
Cheryl O - cello
Steven Sauvé - laptop
Scott M2 - modular synth
Jamie Todd - electronics.

dreamSTATE celebrate National Drone Day 2019 in a concert with their friends in Northumbria plus General Chaos Visuals.

08:00pm - dreamSTATE
08:45pm - dreamSTATE + Northumbria
09:45pm - Northumbria

@ The Roland Inspiration Centre, 1179 King St. W. Toronto.
Please enter by the back door, via an alleyway off Fraser Avenue.

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In a night of tributes to Phil Ogison, dreamSTATE performed 2 sets of improvisations with Wally Jericho and Sylken (Eric Hopper) and the Spirit of Phil Ogison Aegidiussen.

THE AMBiENT PiNG - Handlebar - 159 Augusta Ave in Kensington Market, Toronto.
Doors open 8:30 / 1set at 9pm

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dreamSTATE perform a set of deep drones and deep grooves at THE AMBiENT PiNG to celebrate the launch of their new album "EPHEMERAL DRoNE".

byte.observer (Noah Weninger) and General Chaos Visuals will also deepen the trip.

THE AMBiENT PiNG - Handlebar - 159 Augusta Ave in Kensington Market, Toronto.
Doors open 8:30 / dreamSTATE at 9pm / byte.observer at 10pm

dreamSTATE celebrate National Drone Day 2018 in concert with their friends in Kalte and DJ LP plus General Chaos Visuals.

@ The Roland Inspiration Centre, 1179 King St. W. Toronto.
DJ LP begins the Drone Celebration at 8PM

dreamSTATE vs. Heiki unite again for a liquid live set to celebrate the release of their new Stone Shore ep. There will be both cassettes and CDs available at a reduced rate on this night.

The very awesome Dirty Inputs (Aaron Dawson) and the very illuminating General Chaos Visuals will also be upping the good-trip vibe!

THE AMBiENT PiNG - Handlebar - 159 Augusta Ave in Kensington Market, Toronto.
Doors open 8:30 / dreamSTATE vs. Heiki at 9pm / Dirty Inputs at 10pm

Lost Super-8 films from 1971 projected with live electronic music
by dreamSTATE vs. Heiki and by William A. Davison.

At LP's LPs - 2227 Dundas St. West, Toronto.
Admission is PWYC. Space is limited. PLEASE NOTE this is an early show!
Music and projections will start at 6pm and run through the early evening.