EVENTS / EARLY EVENTS - Photos and Commentary

dreamSTATE at Supermarket 2009 08 18 - photo by Eric Hopper.

~ August 18th, 2009 ~ dreamSTATE will be performing at
THE AMBiENT PiNG's Tenth Anniversary Concert with Wally Jericho
(who performed at the first AMBiENT PiNG on August 17th, 1999 and
who will be playing with his son CJ Jericho) and Kalte (a new collaboration between
rik maclean of mara's torment and Deane Hughes of Akumu - in their debut performance).

@ SuperMarket - (268 Augusta Ave, just south of College St. in Kensington Market, Toronto)
Doors 8pm - 1st Set 8:30pm - $6 at the door.

a decade dreaming

In honour of the PiNG's 10th Anniversary, dreamSTATE has released a free download album
of soundscapes selected from performances at AMBiENT PiNG events throughout the last decade.
a decade dreaming is now available at the ping things label.

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May 7th, 2009 ~ After the internet performance of Alvin Lucier's "Quasimodo - The Great Lover"
by Matt Rogalsky & Laura Cameron and collaborators throughout the hemisphere,
dreamSTATE will perform an eclectic set live from the New Adventures In Sound Art space.
This spring Scott has constructed some electronic species of birds inside his
Nintendo DS Korg DS-10 to open the set & Jamie has sampled birds to twist-up sonically.

The entire event starts at 8:00PM EST. Tune in on the NAISA internet channel at
http://webcast.naisa.ca or attend the performance at the Artscape Wychwood Barns
601 Christie Street (just S. of St. Clair W) Studio #252,
(or if you're near the area tune in at 106.1 FM as there will also be an FM broadcast.)

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~ April 11th, 2009 10pm to 7am ~ dreamSTATE have contributed new soundscapes
to Tanner Menard's ambitious all night sleep concert (as first created by Robert Rich in 1982).
The site is the Antenna Gallery, 3161 Burgundy St, New Orleans, LA 70117 - t: 504-957-4255
Click on the logo below for complete details about the sommeil event.

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~ January 21st, 2009 - 8:00pm ~ dreamSTATE join improvisational powerhouse Odradek
(Andy Yue, Jim Bailey, Michelangelo Iaffaldano) for a spontaneous night of sonic spawning
described as "Lazer Floyd - a sprawling hippie jam without breaks".

@ Somewhere There ~ Live Creative Music in Toronto
340 Dufferin Street ~ one block south of Queen Street W. ~ MAP
** entrance from Melbourne Ave.

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~ January 1st to 31st 2009 from dusk till 2:00am ~ Le Temps de La Neige - Cloud Painting #13
A new ambient video installation by dreamSTATE's Scott M2, can be experienced at the
Roadside Attractions gallery - 911 Davenport Road, Toronto.

A vintage television sits on an old wooden table. Rabbit-ear antennae extended,
the signal hopefully enhanced by crumpled foil on the tip of one damaged ear.

The forecast for the future is blue screens and blackness.
Television snow, a constant since childhood,
disappears with analog television sets as technology evolves.
A contemplation of transience and an appreciation of simple beauty,
Cloud Painting #13 pays homage to the time of snow.

Le Temps de La Neige at Roadside Attractions gallery - Photo by Roy Kohn

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Eric, Scott + Jamie at the Canadian Textile Museum Theatre 2008 09 21 - photo by Catherine Tammaro

~ Sunday September, 21st 2008 dreamSTATE will be performing in Toronto with our
old friend Eric Hopper aka Sylken in a set of electronic space music ranging from the
deepest atmospherics to stardrive sequencer meltdowns. General Chaos Visuals
will be on hand to bathe the stage in swirling photons. Also on the bill are Contrapture,
Anne Sulikowski (Building Castles Out of Matchsticks) and the good grooves of Kinder Atom.

THE AMBiENT PiNG presents TEXTURES a Special Sunday Afternoon Concert
@ The Textile Museum of Canada . 55 Centre Avenue (behind New City Hall)
South of Dundas . East of University . Map, info & directions.
Doors open at 1.30pm . 1st set at 2:00 . $6 . Complete info at THE AMBiENT PiNG

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~ Sunday September 14, 2008 dreamSTATE will be improvising a set with keyboard wizzard
Maurizio Guarini, of Italian prog-rock Goblin fame @ the NOW improv series.
The 1st set with Tiina Kiik & Jaron Freeman Fox should be amazing, so come early.

The NOW Series: Sunday September 14th, 8pm, $6
8:00 P.M.: Tiina Kiik (accordion) w Jaron Freeman Fox (violin).
9:00 P.M.: dreamSTATE (electronics) with special guest Maurizio Guarini (analog synth).

One and all are invited to celebrate the concurrence of the one-year anniversary
and the two-hundredth show at Somewhere There. Cake & dancing.

Somewhere There ~ Live Creative Music in Toronto
340 Dufferin Street ~ MAP ~ one block south of Queen Street W.
** entrance from Melbourne Ave. **

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~ Sunday May 25, 2008 dreamSTATE's Scott M2 has created a film for the KNURL (Alan Bloor)
concrete soundsculpture performance at the Concrete Toronto Music event.

CONCERT SCHEDULE for Sunday May 25 @ Polish Combatants Hall (206 Beverley St.)
8:00-8:15 — introductions
8:15-8:30— Carla Huhtanen (voice) + Wallace Halladay (sax)
8:30-9:00— Knurl (playing concrete) + Scott M2 (film)
9:15-9:45 — Smith & Wiernik (laptop + visuals)
10:00-10:30 — Tony Dekker (guitar + voice) with Sandro Perri (electronics)
10:45-11:30 — CCMC: Michael Snow — piano + keyboard,
John Oswald — sax, Paul Dutton — voice

Article on Concrete Toronto Music in Eye Weekly.

KNURL (Alan Bloor) performs at Concrete Toronto Music with film by Scott M2.

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~ April is Poetry Month and dreamSTATE's Scott M2 and Lynn Harrigan have two pieces
from their Oblique Poetries series featured at Stephen Philips new Ambient Poetry.com site.

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~ Wednesday March 19, 2008 - dreamSTATE return to Altaira - the new ambient monthly event presented by
Toronto Noise Promotions. We're looking forward to sharing a very varied bill with Sleep Research Facility,
Beta Cloud, This Instrument, Toxia and many other sound artists. This event will be at the Renaissance Cafe,
1938 Danforth Avenue, just West of the Woodbine subway stop on the Bloor/Danforth line.

dreamSTATE at the March Altaira - Photo by Frvescent

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~ Sunday March 2nd 2008 - dreamSTATE will be appearing live at Promise's 8th annual Chamber event.
dreamSTATE will be performing a set with NOiNO (Jamie's improv trio with Matthew Poulakakis and James Bailey)
and sound-art percussionist Barry Prophet. Here's more details from the Promise newsletter:

Promise "Chamber 8 - An afternoon/evening of listening and live ambience"
@ ArraySpace, 4pm til 11pm - Sunday March 2nd, 2008
60 Atlantic Ave, unit 218 - in Liberty Village (Toronto)
3 blocks east of King and Dufferin then south on Atlantic

Here are the people involved:
NOiNO vs dreamSTATE vs Barry Prophet – 5 person live ambient/improv
John Kameel Farah – laptop meets piano
Barry Prophet – Glass Xylophone
Jk Farah and Attila – minimal piano duo
Jen Wardle – Soprano Sax and effects
Richard Windeyer - drum kit meets ambient computer
Dorian Sky Duoma - live ambient
Eric Shin – hands on unprepared piano and live ambient piano
Sara Wong – classical piano
Rebecca Featherstone – classical and minimal piano
+ other unconfirmed djs and live acts.

TTC and car: King St W to Atlantic Ave - 2 stops or blocks east of Dufferin
Drive or walk south along Atlantic for a couple of blocks. map
Free parking on street and in the lot surrounding the building.

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~ Monday December 17th, 2007 - dreamSTATE perform live at Altaira - a new ambient monthly event presented by
Toronto Noise Promotions. We're looking forward to sharing a varied bill with Sleep Research Facility and other Toronto sound artists.

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~ Saturday November 24th, 2007 ( Sunday morning in Japan) - dreamSTATE perform live with Dominique Banoun and
musicians from Osaka, Japan (KUROTCH (Kurokawa Atsushiin), CLONELINESS (Charles-Éric Billardan) and SLONNON) in an
international internet improv session at LE LABORATOIRE D'ART (LE LABO) in Toronto at the Distillery District - 55 Mill St.,
Cannery Bldg. #58, Studio 317 at 9:00pm EST Also performing are Alan Bloor (KNURL/PHOLDE) w/ Eric St. Laurent and ODRADEK.

SLONNON (onscreen in Osaka), Scott, Jamie and Dominique - Photo by Genvieve Trilling

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~ Tuesday November 13th, 2007 - dreamSTATE's Scott M2 performs soundscapes to underscore poetry and
art projections by Steve McCabe and tap dancing (!) by Paula Skimin at The Art Bar Poetry Series.
at Clinton's, 693 Bloor St. W., Toronto, by the Christie subway station.

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~ Tuesday 23rd, 2007 - Scott M2 and Lynn Harrigan read at the Plasticine Poetry Series - @ The Central, 603 Markham St., Toronto

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~ Wednesday October 17th 2007 - Draft 3.1 - The Poetic Connection - 276 Carlaw Ave., Suite 202, Toronto

dreamSTATE's Scott M2 reads for the first time from Oblique Poetries - a collaborative work with
poet and visual artist Lynn Harrigan. Scott will also be weaving soundscapes live to underscore the poetry
and will be premiering his first ambient visual work Bone Memory, which will be projected during their set (at 8pm sharp).

Photos by Jamie Todd

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~ Tuesday October 16th, 2007 - HOWL on CIUT-FM (11:00 pm EST) Scott M2 & Lynn Harrigan join host Nancy Bullis
on HOWL, Toronto's weekly "breakdown of the zeitgeist of poetic expression" on CIUT 89.5FM in Toronto
and live on the internet. They'll be discussing their upcoming performances and reading from Oblique Poetries.

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Tuesday September 25th, 2007 - A BACK TO SCHOOL DRONE @ THE AMBiENT PiNG
Featuring Kinder Atom . Scott M2 . Spacenoiz, dafydd hughes . atlaxia . Aidan Baker
Matthew Poulakakis, James Bailey and URM.
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin. 8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested)

Jamie Todd + dafydd hughes - Photo by Scott M2

Jim Field (spacenoiz) + Scott M2 - Photo by Jamie Todd

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~ Tuesday August 28th 2007 • dreamSTATE perform live at THE PiNG's 8th ANNiVERSARY SPECiAL
including a special second set with their old friend Eric Hopper aka Sylken and General Chaos Visuals.
@ the UNDERGROUND downstairs @ the DRAKE HOTEL in Toronto
1150 Queen St. W @ Beaconsfield . W of Ossington . E of Dufferin
8pm . PWYC (5$ suggested) More information here.

dreamSTATE with Sylken - August 28, 2007

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~ March 25th, 2007 - 2 to 4pm - dreamSTATE's Scott M2, in coordination with THE AMBiENT PiNG, has planned
an interesting participatory sound-in-space event using Buddha Machines. Here's the PiNG's poster and blurb:

Bring your Buddha Machine and help create a moving sound-in-space experience
in the beautiful tropical gardens of the Allan Gardens Conservatory in Toronto.
Hang-out and chill-out with other peaceful spirits to enjoy a taste of Spring
and a unique sonic landscape. Bring your friends too - it's fun and it's free.
(Buddha Machines are optional.)

What the heck is a Buddha Machine? Click here to find out.
Where do you get them? Soundscapes - 572 College St., Toronto

More photos from the Buddha Machine Gathering #1 here
and be sure to viddy Rob Cruikshank's great photos here.

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~ Sunday March 11th 2007 - dreamSTATE will be appearing live at Promise's 7th annual Chamber event.
dreamSTATE will be performing a set for this lovely eclectic event with our good friend Wally Jericho blowing
on trumpet and sax with treatments and loops. Here's more details from the Promise newsletter:

Promise "Chamber 7" @ ArraySpace, 4pm til 11pm - Sunday March 11
60 Atlantic Ave, unit 218 - in Liberty Village (Toronto)
3 blocks east of King and Dufferin then south on Atlantic

Here are the people involved:
Angus Macleod – classical piano
Madison Reid – Angus’ granddaughter piano duet
Glynis Ratcliffe – opera singer
John Kameel Farah & Rick Hyslop – minimal piano, laptop, violin & effects.
dreamSTATE & Wally Jericho – ambient electronics duo plus trumpet & sax
Pholde – metal sculpture sounds and effects
Stephan Vera aka Technostep – piano, laptop, jazz and minimal tech
Marcus Wong – classical guitar
Julie Loveless – classical piano
Aia – electro ambient dj set
Mentalfloss – experimental dj sets
Blankfoto - visuals

TTC and car: King St W to Atlantic Ave - 2 stops or blocks east of Dufferin
Drive or walk south along Atlantic for a couple of blocks.
Free parking on street and in the lot surrounding the building.

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~ November 6th, 2006 - 9:00pm EST - PiNG RADiO's Almost Live Music Series on on Live365 presents
a live recording of dreamSTATE with Wally Jericho performing live at the PiNG on September 10th, 2002.
The program will be rebroadcast Thursday Nov. 9th at 12midnight EST and Saturday Nov 11th at 3:30 EST.
TUNE iN HERE

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~ September 26, 2006 - Both Scott M2 and Jamie Todd from dreamSTATE are performing
at the Eight Hour Drone event at the Drake Hotel, Toronto.

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dreamSTATE with General Chaos Visuals at the AMBiENT PiNG's 7th Anniversary event August 17th, 2006
Photo by Eric Hopper

~ August 17th, 2006 - dreamSTATE is proud to announce the launch of their latest CD OM.
After two CDs of music from ambient installations, this is their first live performance CD release
and they'll be celebrating with a live performance at THE AMBiENT PiNG's 7th ANNiVERSARY SPECiAL.
Afterwards, OM will be available exclusively at the ping things online boutique until October.
OM is an ambient soundscape journey recorded live at the OM Festival 2000 in Trudeau Park,
Ontario and in the spirit of that performance, dreamSTATE will create a freeranging soundflow
to carry the audience off into an alternative mindspace. They're very happy that
psychedelic lightlords General Chaos Visuals will be along for the trip.

THE AMBiENT PiNG's 7th Anniversary Special featuring:
dreamSTATE . mara's torment . naw w/ General Chaos Visuals
Thursday August 17th . Doors open 8PM . 1st set 8:30PM . PWYC/$5 suggested
@ The Tranzac Club (Main Hall) . 292 Brunswick Ave. Toronto
(just S. of Bloor and 3 blocks from either the Bathurst or Spadina stations)

Photos by Eric Hopper

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July 6th through 15th, 2006 ~ Scott M2 performed dreamSTATE soundscapes to accompany
MOON SEA CROSSING - The Play at The Toronto Fringe Festival. Produced by Fertile Ground Productions,
the play garnered a 5-star review from writer Kellie Maltese in eye weekly magazine:

"This gathering of mythology, music and meta-fiction produces a poetic palimpsest of Irish beliefs
and one immigrant woman's struggle to find a balance among them. In an audience-directed monologue,
"MOON SEA CROSSING" is accentuated by music and lighting that serve to mirror both the
character's emotional and physical battle based on the prejudices that bind her. With language that
flows like the sea that has stolen her away from her homeland, the audience can't help but follow her along."

Scott M2 tweezes the scapes for MOON SEA CROSSING - The Play in the Factory Theatre soundbooth.
Photos by Lynn Harrigan

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~March 28th, 2006 - After a successful musical meeting of the minds on February 14th,
dreamSTATE took things farther with poet Lynn Harrigan and guitarist/synthesist Phil Ogison
(aka The Devil In The Design). Opening the set, accompanied by ambience from dreamSTATE and Phil,
Lynn read the latest pieces from her work-in-progress Oblique Poetries,
then dreamSTATE launched into Berlin-inspired Moog sequencing on their new virtual-synth stacks
with soaring guitar work from Phil, bridged by abstract ambient interludes.

In the first set "outside" artist Menno Krant painted directly on 5 CD covers
and on 3 human models while Phil Ogison improvised 5 new musical works.
This is stage one of their "Vessel" series which will culminate
in a gallery showing of 25 paintings and their associated soundart.

9:00pm @ THE AMBiENT PiNG - Hacienda - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor, Toronto, Canada
(directly across from the Bathurst subway station).

The Devil In The Design, Menno Krant & Models ~ ~ dreamSTATE, Lynn Harrigan & The Devil In The Designn with General Chaos Visuals
Photos by Jamie Todd and Eric Hopper

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~ February 14th, 2006 - dreamSTATE premiered a new sound environment White.
They were joined by writer Lynn Harrigan, reading poems from her work-in-progress
Oblique Poetries, plus Phil Ogison, adding his high-altitude electronic textures.
This was a unique, deep-winter version of White. The CD-version will not be released
until next year and dreamSTATE hope this performance will leave you well chilled-out until then.
9:00pm @ THE AMBiENT PiNG - Hacienda - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor, Toronto, Canada

~ Lynn Harrigan and Scott M2 perform Oblique Poetries ~ dreamSTATE and The Devil In The Design perform the White Variations
Photos by Jamie Todd and Eric Hopper

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Scott M2 and Lynn Harrigan perform Moon Sea Crossing @ THE AMBiENT PiNG Nov.8th, 2005

~ November 8th, 2005 - dreamSTATE performed at THE AMBiENT PiNG with special guests.

In the first set, poet Lynn Harrigan read from her new book MOON SEA CROSSING, while Scott and Jamie
wove soundscapes from their new CD PASSAGE - which was inspired by the book.

In the second set, dreamSTATE tipped their hats to Dr. Robert Moog, who recently
passed away, by bringing out Scott's vintage Moog modular synthesizer, Jamie's Arcturus Moog V
virtual synths and unleashing some driving Berlin school-inspired sequencing. They were joined by
Shirzad Sharif (visiting from San Francisco) playing Persian percussion instruments
the Tonbak (Zarb) and Daf (Kurdish frame drum) and the Tanbur stringed instrument.

Scott M2, Shirzad Sharif and Jamie Todd @ THE AMBiENT PiNG Nov.8th, 2005

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~ May 29th 2005 - Scott M2 performs in the last shift at the 8 HOUR DRONE SHOW,
organized by Alex Snukal and presented by the blocks recording club,
along with 30 other performers at the Mercer Union, Toronto.
Photo by Jamie Todd.

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~ April 27th 2005 - dreamSTATE performed at THE AMBiENT PiNG.
Experimental duo A Pretty Sonic Splatter (Phil Ogison and Anne Sulikowski) opened the night
and both groups improvised togther in the third set. Visuals by General Chaos!
Photo by Eric Hopper.

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~ March 2nd 2005 - dreamSTATE perform with special guest, poet Lynn Harrigan
and ambient visualists General Chaos at THE AMBiENT PiNG's
new residence at Hacienda - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor, Toronto
The well-tempered synthesizer of mara's torment opens the evening.
Photo by Eric Hopper.

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dreamSTATE perform at the opening of the Bread & Water multimedia installation in the
Huron Historic Gaol, on August 27th 2004, with poet Lynn Harrigan and cellist Laura Jean McCann.

~ August 28th to October 24th 2004 - New dreamSTATE ambient soundscapes were featured
at the Bread & Water multimedia installation in the Huron Historic Gaol in Goderich, Ontario.
Based on Moon Sea Crossing, a collection of poems by Lynn Harrigan, this collaborative installation
related the true story of Aina, an Irish woman who immigrated to Canada with her husband
and children in 1846. Aina suffered a breakdown shortly after her arrival in Huron County and was
incarcerated at the Gaol, as there were no mental institutions at that time and place. Poems, music,
paintings and photographs throughout the Gaol explored a variety of themes, including mental illness,
displacement, hunger, grief and Irish folklore.

For this installation, dreamSTATE created seven new soundscapes to support
the emotions of Harrigan's poetry. Installed in various spaces within the Historic Goal,
the soundscapes represented the stages of Aina's journey to Canada, to Stanley Township and
eventually within the Gaol's walls. The music from this installation is now available on the PASSAGE CD.

Stream or download an mp3 of Stone and Sky ~ music created for the Gaol courtyard
where inmates could stretch and see the sky again. HiFi ~ 128kbs or LoFi ~ 64kbs.

Cellist Laura Jean McCann, poet Lynn Harrigan, Scott M2 & Jamie Todd perform in the Gaol's main Courtyard.
Photos by Mauri Todd.

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Jonathan Hughes' new double CD Fluidities contains Molten a new dreamSTATE track
created just for this special project. More information on this very interesting album on the CDs page.

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~ Saturday September 4th, 2004 5:30PM - dreamSTATE will be performing a set of soundscapes
underscoring poetry by Lynn Harrigan from her book "Moon Sea Crossing".
@ The Distillery District - Boiler House Patio (Seneca CollegeStage), Toronto
as part of the TORONTO CITY ROOTS SONG CELEBRATION.
This is a free stage. More info here and directions here.

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~ Tuesday August 17th 2004 - It's THE AMBiENT PiNG's 5th ANNiVERSARY and Scott and Jamie
of dreamSTATE are celebrating by reuniting with their old friend Eric Hopper of Sylken.
The 3 artists spent many years improvising electronic music together in the late 80s and 90s
as Radio Silence - developing the skills, intuition and trust they rely upon to this day.
From deep ambience to throbbing pulsations and interlocking sequences, dS + Sylken
are planning a special sonic voyage for THE AMBiENT PiNG's final show at club nia / C'est What
before moving to a new home at the Gladstone Hotel in September.
Oon this final trip at club nia. General Chaos, dreamSTATE's fave ambient visualists,
will be weaving their unique swirling galaxies of light to take us out...
@ THE AMBiENT PiNG - 19 Church Street at Front, Toronto
Doors open 9pm - No Cover charge

Bottom row - Scott M2, Jamie Todd, Eric Hopper (Sylken)

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~ Sunday July 25th 2004 - beginning at 2:00PM US Eastern Time dreamSTATE will be performing
a multi-hour live concert online via AtmoStreams - hosted by AtmoWorks the online ambient
CD outlet owned by renowned ambient electronic artists Vir Unis and James Johnson. This will be an
excellent opportunity for ambient listeners outside the Toronto area to experience dreamSTATE live.
It will be a late-morning concert on the US and Canadian West Coast and an evening concert
in Europe and Africa. Find the exact time for your city using this handy time converter
then tune in at AtmoWorks by clicking on the speaker icon at the top left.

dreamSTATE has planned a soundscape journey with several stages, beginning with
travels through drifting drones, throbbing pulsations, dark dreams and distant memories.

Next they'll be performing a long set of soundscapes and grooves created entirely from
mutating the amazing samples they had access to from the MusicWorks magazine CD archive for a
live performance at their fundraising event last month. Not only do Scott and Jamie have
clearance from MusicWorks to use these samples again, but during the concert
they will be giving away 3 free subscriptions to the magazine, which includes
a CD of cutting-edge experimental music with each issue!

dreamSTATE will then perform improvisations based on some new music from their next CD release
plus dark drones & rippling sequences to wrap up the 2 hour man/machine portion of their presentation.

Finally, they'll launch their waveforms ambient installation, which has been set up in Sunspot Studio
for this broadcast & will let it weave its infinitely evolving 'scape for the next 15 hours (!)
to create a unique, immersive sound experience for AtmoStream listeners in their personal spaces.

Note - Besides the Between Realities CD (a "live" recording of the waveforms installation),
AtmoWorks carries several compilations featuring dreamSTATE tracks: Ping Ambience 2,
Ambient Landscapes 2, Harmony with Ambience and James Johnson's Linger CD,
which includes Twilight Impressions, a 12 minute co-creation with dreamSTATE
and trumpeter Wally Jericho, recorded live at THE AMBiENT PiNG.

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~ June 25th 2004 - dreamSTATE will be performing at the Musicworks Magazine fundraising concert event.
Founded in 1978, Musicworks Magazine is the first publication to pioneer the concept of packaging
print and sound together, first on cassette and now on CD. Each issue features articles by and about
Canadian and international composers, musicians, artists and theorists, and includes a CD of their works.
dreamSTATE have open access to the fantastic archive of sound art from MusicWorks' entire collection
and will be mutating, stretching, twisting and rejuxtaposing it into new soundscapes for this special event.

Come and support this unique and venerable magazine and enjoy live performances by dreamSTATE,
sound collage artists Mannlicher Carcano Ensemble and electroacoustic composer Darren Copeland
plus a new video installation piece by internationally renowned Canadian composer John Oswald
(whose work dreamSTATE will surely plunder for this performance). Complete details about this event here.

@ the Edward Day Gallery (952 Queen St. W., Toronto, Canada) Friday June 25 - Doors: 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $15 (advance), $20 (door) and available by calling 416-977-3546

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~ May 1, 2004 - dreamSTATE performed another set of music by electroacoustic composer Darren Copeland
@ The Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St. W., Toronto. This time Darren mixed the outputs of Scott & Jamie's
computers into an 8 speaker circular sound system with the performers in the center of the system and audience.

Scott M2, Jamie Todd and Darren Copeland - Photos by Lynn Harrigan

~ May 11th 2004 - Scott M2 performed for the second time (on radio, Nord Modular synth, loops & treatments)
with Toronto radio legend David Pritchard & the multi-talented Byron Wong at RADiO iN AMBiENCE 2004 Part 2
- A special presentation for Deep Wireless in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art and THE AMBiENT PiNG

Byron Wong, David Pritchard and Scott M2 - Photos by Jamie Todd

Then in the second set - Scott joined Planet Of The Loops founder Andrew Aldridge
to perform an improvised looping set based on material from last year's RADiO iN AMBIENCE concert
being broadcast at that time on DJ Greg Clow's FEEDBACK MONITOR radio show on CIUT-FM.

Andrew Aldridge and Scott M2 - Photos by Jamie Todd

~ April 20th 2004 - Scott and Jamie performed separately at the PiNG AMBiENCE 2 CD release event
at THE AMBiENT PiNG. Jamie performed a duo with old friend Eric Hopper (Sylken)
and Scott performed as part of a vintage monophonic synthesizer trio (on Korg Mono/Poly)
with Steven Sauve (on Roland SH5) and Matthew Poulakakis (on Korg MS20).

Eric Hopper and Jamie Todd - Photos by Sarah Cooper

Steven Sauve, Scott M2 and Matthew Poulakakis - Photos by Jamie Todd

Photos and Notes from dreamSTATE performances in 2003:

~ December 16th 2003 - @ THE AMBiENT PiNG - The first set featured dreamSTATE performing
a suite of pieces by Darren Copeland, an electroacoustic composer and sound designer who has
produced work since 1985 for concerts, radio, theatre, dance and site-specific installation.
Darren also attended to the mix and was available for questions after the performance.

In the second set, poet Lynn Harrigan read from Moon Sea Crossing, a work-in-progress
which will culminate next August in a multi-media installation running three months
in the Historic County Gaol in Goderich Ontario incorporating a multi-room sound installation
by dreamSTATE. In the concert, dreamSTATE wove a series of sound environments
to support and expand on the underlying emotions of the poems.

Jamie Todd, Lynn Harrigan and Scott M2 - Photos by Eric Hopper

~ November 11th 2003 - dreamSTATE performed a night at THE AMBiENT PiNG with Pholde,
the ambient soundscape persona of Alan Bloor (aka Knurl). Alan creates his sounds
from the bowing, scaping and striking of his unusual metal sound-sculptures with rods
of hardened steel. This combination of sonic forces ended in many dark sonic territories.
(Play a 64k or 128k mp3 of Psychotronic - to hear an improvisation from the
dreamSTATE/Pholde "rehersal" for this show. Right-click to download mp3.)
General Chaos Visuals provided their deep visual dimensions to the show.

Jamie Todd, Alan Bloor and Scott M2 - Photos by Eric Hopper

~ July 1st 2003 dreamSTATE returned to THE AMBiENT PiNG to perform with
special guest guitarist/sound artist Jim Field (spacenoiz, still coiled, Rhea's Obsession).
Digital and analog projections were by Redjet Media and General Chaos Visuals.

Jim Field, Jamie Todd and Scott M2 - Photos by Eric Hopper

~ May 13th 2003 - Scott M2 performed on radio, loops & treatments with Toronto radio legend
David Pritchard & Byron Wong at RADiO iN AMBiENCE Part 2 - A special presentation for
Deep Wireless in collaboration with New Adventures in Sound Art and THE AMBiENT PiNG
(Play Money Back Guarantee an mp3 excerpt from this show in HiFi or LoFi quality.)

David Pritchard, Scott M2 and Byron Wong - Photos by Jamie Todd

~ April 15th 2003 ~ Jamie Todd's URM soundscape project went live for the 1st time @ THE AMBiENT PiNG

URM/Jamie Todd - Photos by David Coppola

Photos from selected dreamSTATE shows in 2002:
(Light environments by General Chaos Visuals)

~ At dreamSTATE's performance December 3rd 2002 our special guest was the multitalented
Susanna Hood on voice, found objects, looper and delays - @ THE AMBiENT PiNG.
Phases of the Moon by dreamSTATE + Susanna Hood, which was recorded at this show,
is now available on the new PiNG AMBiENCE 2 CD.

Jamie Todd, Susanna Hood and Scott M2 - Photos by Julius Oklamcak

~ November 12th 2002 - dreamSTATE were invited to perform with Chicago, Illinois
ambient electronic artist James Johnson along with our old friend Wally Jericho
(on trumpet, bass, samples & loops) at James' AMBiENT PiNG performance.
A 12 minute section from this show, now titled Twilight Impressions, appears on
James' newly remastered version of his Linger CD.

Wally Jericho, Jamie Todd, James Johnson and Scott M2 - Photos by Julius Oklamcak

~ September 10th 2002 - dreamSTATE and Wally Jericho (on trumpet, bass, samples & loops)
perform at THE AMBiENT PiNG. (Jamie shot these onstage photos.)

Wally Jericho, Jamie's computers and Scott M2 - Photos by Jamie Todd

~ August 6th 2002 - dreamSTATE were invited to improvise with Deep Chill Network
(Dark Duck Records' Stephen Philips and Ben Summers) who were visiting
THE AMBiENT PiNG from Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Stephen Philips, Jamie Todd, Ben Summers and Scott M2 - Photos by Mario Georgiou

~ July 9th 2002 - dreamSTATE with special guest Steven Sauve (karmafarm)
who's become our most regular collaborator and fellow dreamer.

Scott M2, Jamie Todd and Steven Sauve - Photos by Mario Georgiou

~ April 7th 2002 - dreamSTATE , perform the opening set for the premiere Toronto concert performance
by ambient electronic pioneer Robert Rich @ Art System Gallery. Click on the images below
for an extensive photo-archive of Robert Rich, dreamSTATE and General Chaos Visuals from this show
including some great shots of Robert Rich's modular synth.

dreamSTATE @ Art System - Photos by Mario Georgiou

EARLY EVENTS

~ Click below for photos and personal commentary from the band on selected past events.

2000 ~ The Drone Cycle 2000 ~ Ted's Wrecking Yard
1999 ~ Feedback Monitor 3rd Anniversary ~ Planet Of The Loops ~ THE AMBiENT PiNG
1998 ~ World Electronic Music Festival ~ Interference Orange
1997 ~ waveforms at The H5 Project ~ Symptom Hall