dreamSTATE
EVENTS
April
10th, 2012 - dreamSTATE
with Harry
Kessels of Wave World
- photo by Vik Pahwa
May 10th, 2013 - New Harbours - Hamilton
dreamSTATE
will be traveling to Hamilton with Heiki Sillaste for the final New
Harbours concert
of the spring season, with an opening set from local drone worshipers OUREBOROS.
The concert will take place in Christ Church cathedral at 252 James St. North
beginning at 8pm. Complete
details here.
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January
22nd, 2013 - THE DRONE CYCLE CODA (C)
Celebrating
the completion of the Drone
Cycle 2012 Scott and Jamie of dreamSTATE
will launch a 3 Hour Drone Event at THE
AMBiENT PiNG, where every 20 minutes
they "pass the drone baton" to performers from the original Drone
Cycle 2000 and then
to new performers as they return the PiNG stage to its "regular"
eclectic sonic adventurers.
dreamSTATE
begin at 8:00pm followed by their special guest droners:
Steven Sauvé (Geek Weekend) on electronics, Wally Jericho on trumpet,
cheryl o (quasiMODAL) on cello, Stuart Clark on electronics,
James Bailey (NOiNO/Odradek) on anythingatall, and scant intone on electronics.
General Chaos Visuals on general chaos and visuals.
Come early, come
late, wander in and out... The Drone will be there for you.
If
you're not in Toronto, you can peer into the PiNG through the LiveStream
window
beginning at 8:00pm EST or just listen as the Drone twists and evolves throughout
the show.
Fiber-artist
Lynn Harrigan has
also completed her series, Scenes from the Drone Cycle 2012,
portraying all of dreamSTATE's special guests as hand-embroidered impressions
on Irish linen printed with General Chaos Visuals. The entire series will
be displayed
at Supermarket, Toronto during the Drone Cycle Coda concert and through the
week.
Tuesday January
22nd 2013 at Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College - Map
It
seems a million years since dreamSTATE began The Drone Cycle 2000,
though it has only been a dozen. In each month of 2000, dreamSTATE
performed a concert of improvisations based on a note of the chromatic scale:
January in C, February in C#... Each month dS was joined by special
guests to
add their special flavours to the stew. It was a landmark year for dreamSTATE
who had the great privilege of creating with amazing musicians each month
Beginning
January 10th, 2012, on the "chromatic anniversary" of The Drone
Cycle 2000 dreamSTATE begin the Cycle again, with new special guests performing
on a wide
variety of instruments, as they traverse the scale back downward:
January in C, February in B... to bring the Drone home!
As
in 2000, sometimes the Drone note will only be implied as dreamSTATE
and their guests explore new soundspace together - but it will always
remain their foundation and home for each concert. In 2012 you can bet
they will also be exploring drone-based grooves during the journeys.
In
2000 there was visuals for only one concert of the series.
In 2012 dreamSTATE are very, very happy to have
analogue visual greats General
Chaos Visuals along for the trip.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - DECEMBER (C#)
December
4th, 2012 (C#) with Beau
Lukes (Sorcerer) on didgeridoo and percussion
plus sets by Darren
Copeland (performing John Cage's Four
using recordings from The Drone Cycle 2012)
and Sylken
with Michael Holcer and Beau Lukes
For
the final concert in the Drone Cycle 2012, dreamSTATE are honoured
that
sound artist Darren Copeland will open the evening (at 8:15) by performing
a special version of John Cage's Four.6 where Max/MSP is automated
to make
the creative choices in interpreting Cage's four-part score. All sounds designated
for each performer in Four.6 have been edited by Darren from the archival
recordings
of dreamSTATE's previous 11 Drone Cycle 2012 performances plus a 12th sound
derived from a mystery source. Darren performs the piece as part of worldwide
celebrations for the 100th anniversary of John Cage's birth. Thank-you Darren!
At 9:00pm
dreamSTATE will take the stage to complete the Drone Cycle
with special guest Beau Lukes (aka Sorcerer). Beau has played hand percussion
for over 20 years, and the Didgeridoo for 15 years. He works primarily in
electronic
landscapes favouring Ambient with a tribal edge (as well as Electronica, Dance
& Industrial)
and his latest works can be heard in his collective endeavour The Eclipse
Project.
Beau will also
perform in the 3rd set with his newest project S E V A
with Eric Hopper (Sylken) & Michael Holcer to conclude the night
with some fresh musical magic.
dreamSTATE
have been blessed in 2012 with the creative
contributions of General Chaos Visuals throughout the
Drone Cycle. Massive thanks to Stephen and Eric!
Tuesday
December 4th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
08:15 - Darren
Copeland performs John Cage's "Four^6"
09:00 - dreamSTATE with Beau Lukes (Sorcerer)
10:00 - S E V A
A
new AMBiENT
PiNG Livestream has been set up so that you can still
catch a window into the Drone Cycle shows if you're outside of Toronto.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - NOVEMBER (D)
THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - November 6th, 2012 (D) with Terry
O'Brien
(Anomalous Disturbances) on guitar plus sets by Anomalous Disturbances
and Wassonic
dreamSTATE's
special guest Terrence (Terry) O'Brien was one
of the first artists theyinvited to join them for the Drone Cycle 2012.
He has played with Jamie at the PiNG in years past as part of
their ambient trio SADU with Eric Hopper from Sylken, but this
will be the first time Terry has performed with both Jamie and Scott.
Terry is quite a gear aficionado and dreamSTATE look forward to his
latest sounds and approaches to guitar, guitar-synth, treatments
and live-looping skills.
General
Chaos Visuals will illuminate the night with their analogue light paintings.
Tues.
November 6th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
This
night begins early with an Anomalous Disturbances solo looping performance
beginning at 8:00pm where Terry O'Brien is later joined by his two brothers
on percussion.
dreamSTATE
set with Terry O'Brien begins at 9:15pm sharp (EST)
followed by a set of "Lost World Music" by Wassonic.
A
new AMBiENT
PiNG Livestream has been set up so that you can still
catch a window into the Drone Cycle shows if you're outside of Toronto.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - OCTOBER (D#)
Tuesday
October 9th, 2012~ Way back in 2000 (in the time of the original
Drone Cycle)
we had our minds blown when Ben
Grossman played his hurdy
gurdy masterfully
through treatments and a looper at the PiNG for Planet of the Loops. We've
talked
occasionally through the years about playing together - and that time is now!
Another
thrill is to have violinist Hugh
Marsh along for the trip.
Like Ben, Hugh has played with practically every notable musician in Canada
(including our personal faves Mary Margaret O'Hara and Bruce Cockburn)
and brings a identifiable personal electricity to his instrument.
We're
looking forward to hearing the combination of dreamSTATE's electronics
woven with the sounds of instruments born before the Renaissance and played
by modern masters with thoroughly modern minds!
The
second set will feature Ben and Hugh playing freely together as they
"transport you to a beautiful world in which George Clinton and Arnold
Schoenberg's
love children can live in peace at last under a black metal sun."
Not to be missed!
General
Chaos Visuals will illuminate the night with their
venerable "post-Renaissance" analogue light paintings.
Tues.
October 9th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
A
new AMBiENT
PiNG Livestream has been set up so that you can still
catch a window into the Drone Cycle shows if you're outside of Toronto.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - SEPTEMBER (E)
Tuesday
September 11th, 2012~ For the key of E an electric guitarist
was mandatory for us and we're very happy to have space guitarist Phil
Ogison
(The Devil In The Design, Amoeba Starfish) along for this trip, bending those
metal strings. We're also thrilled to have the true Master of Metal Alan
Bloor
(Pholde, Knurl) join us for this edition. We specifically invited him to play
a
fantastic instrument he designed - constructed from a VERY large saw blade
and metal strings which he strokes, scrapes and strikes with violin bows,
metal rods and bars. This show will be a very mercurial amalgam
of metal and electronics.
Tues.
September 11th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
1st
Set at 8:30 (EST) - Dogma I
2nd Set at 9:15 - dreamSTATE with Pholde and Phil Ogison
3rd Set at 10:15 - Amoeba Starfish
Full info at: www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com
A
new AMBiENT
PiNG Livestream has been set up so that you can still
catch a window into the Drone Cycle shows if you're outside of Toronto.
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - AUGUST (F)
dreamSTATE
with Kalte 2012.08.14
- photo by Lynn
Harrigan
Tuesday
August 14th, 2012~ In the heart of summer, dreamSTATE's
August theme is COLD, as they perform a super-chilled Drone Cycle set
with the ice-blooded duo from Kalte
- Rik MacLean (Mara's Torment) and
Deane Hughes (Akumu). The key is F for Freezing!
Expect
glacial sheets of sound as they travel to the far north
to explore the ice fields and tundra with their trusty Kalte guides.
Also expect a special below-zero light presentation from General
Chaos Visuals and a deep, deep fog environment for this singular
edition of the Cycle.
In
the second set, Kalte has plotted a winding, dangerous course
to take you deeper into the arctic - all the way to the pole.
Tues.
August 14th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
Tuesday
July 10th~ dreamSTATE are very pleased to perform for the first
time with
multi-talented wind player Rob
Hoare, visiting from Berlin, and with our old friend,
synthesist Steven Sauvé
(karmafarm, Sylken, quasiMODAL) who has performed with us
many times - notably in the first Drone Cycle in July 2000. Many people acclaimed
that show as their favourite of the Cycle and wished to be assured that it
was recorded,
but, alas, the tapes turned out to be blank empty space. It's clearly unsafe
to count on the recorder,
so grab a cold one and join us in the flesh for "F#nky Drones" night.
General Chaos
Visuals
will be in the house to delight the eyes with their old-school projections.
Rob
and Steven will also perform a second set as Geek Weekend - steeped in random
processes,
drenched in absurdity and dripping with irony. Perfect for a hot night in
July.
Tues.
July 10th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
First
Set at 9:00PM sharp - dreamSTATE with Rob Hoare and Steven Sauvé
Full info at: www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - JUNE (G)
dreamSTATE
with Odradek 2012.06.12 - photo by Lynn
Harrigan
Tuesday
June 12th~ For this edition of the Cycle, dreamSTATE with
be joined by
the three sound artists from Odradek:
Andy Yue - Master of the Korg MS-20 analog synth
and a rare musician who is truly in-control on his ribbon-controller, James
Bailey - Found-sound
artist extraordinaire, who we hope will be bringing his little plastic, mini-sax
MIDI controller,
Michelangelo Iaffaldano - Creator of many strange instruments and fluent
with so many
conventional ones that he surprised us by announcing that he'll be bringing
a laptop
for this show. Since Jamie will also be sqeezing out scapes and grooves from
his laptop,
Scott will just be playing the Pads this round... Kaoss Pads & iPads,
that is.
Odradek will also play a "solo" set.
dreamSTAdreamSTATE's
analog visual allies General
Chaos Visuals will be setting up their photonic weaponry
to either protect us from strange alien lifeforms or to open a portal for
them to enter.
We can never figure which...
Tues.
June 12th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College.
THE AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
(If you're not aware yet, Supermarket offers excellent food
as well as their fine beers.)
First
Set at 9:00PM sharp - dreamSTATE with Odradek
Full info at: www.THEAMBiENTPiNG.com
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THE
DRONE CYCLE 2012 - MAY (G#)
dreamSTATE
with Byron Wong 2012.05.15 - photo by Bert
Bonkowski
Tuesday
May 15th~ dreamSTATE will be weaving many threads together
for this special edition of the Drone Cycle. May is traditionally Deep Wireless
month at THE AMBiENT PiNG presenting "Radio In Ambience" with their
friends from New Adventures In Sound Art. In 2003 and 2004, Scott M2
had the pleasure of improvising with revered radio radical David Pritchard
and electronic producer Byron Kent Wong in David's first & last live
music performances - as he passed away in the year after. If you
have a moment, please read about some of David's
rich history.
dreamSTATE
invited Byron back to join them in a tribute to David
(a very significant inspiration to them all) as they collage electronics,
live and prepared radio, transformed samples of David's voice and some
never-released tracks Scott has been mining from old demo cassettes
and re-keying into this month's drone note of G#. Byron promises
he's "going to take a chance and use a few things that are at
best unstable, but have great connection to David". Here's a fun
article on Byron and his awesome vintage gear collection.
Byron
will be playing a solo set after guesting with dreamSTATE.
Hector Centeno + Tetsuo Kogawa will be opening the night.
Liz
Janik (one of the last daytime DJs to program their own music
at CFNY - a station where David was the original program director)
will be in the house to introduce the dreamSTATE set and will be
bringing a new DVD of her "interdimensional photos" scored with
music by David, which will be played in the first intermission.
Tuesday
May 15th, 2012 @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College. MAP
THE
AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
Set-times:08:30 EST . Hector Centeno + Tetsuo Kogawa
09:15 EST . dreamSTATE + Byron Wong
10:15 EST . Byron Wong
dreamSTATE
with Harry Kessels 2012.04.10 - photo by Vik
Pahwa
Tuesday
April 10th dreamSTATE will be joined by Harry Kessels of the
Dutch/Canadian multimedia project Wave
World for a set rooted in A-natural.
Harry
will be performing on Theremin, Voice and Synthesizer and
Scott M2 will be adding a second iPad to his performance instruments.
We can predict that this will be a very spacey show, deepened
by the contributions of General Chaos Visuals.
Following
a short break, Harry dons his Kgevenisandi persona to
perform seven Wave World pieces with sonic assistance from Toronto
electronic musicians Michael Holcer + Eric Hopper (Sylken). The set will
be accompanied by a visual suite by Wave World's Rolf van Slooten,
one of Holland's leading computer graphics artists.
This
promises to be an essential night for space-music
fans and we hope you can join us for the show.
Tuesday
April 10th, 2012 @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College. MAP
THE
AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
Set-times: dreamSTATE 9:00pm + Kgevenisandi 10:10pm
dreamSTATE
with Jim Field 2012.03.13 - photo by Bert Bonkowski
Tuesday,
March 13th, 2012, dreamSTATE's special guest is space-guitarist
Jim Field of Spacenoiz
and Rhea's Obsession. Jim will be tuning waaaay down
to A# for this show and Scott & Jamie are eagerly anticipating the uber-twang
along with Jim's prowess with the looper, e-bow and bow.
The awesome General
Chaos will be adding the visual dimension.
Jim
will be launching a Spacenoiz mission for the second set.
Tuesday
March 13th, 2012 @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College. MAP
THE
AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
Set-times: dreamSTATE 9:00pm + Spacenoiz 10:00pm
dreamSTATE
with Matthew Poulakakis 2012.02.07 - photo by Eric Hopper
Tuesday,
February 7th, 2012, dreamSTATE's
special guest is Matthew Poulakakis
aka Automatic Fats,Panoramaroid and Salvagesound and
a member of Wassonic
(with Terrence O'Brien) and NOiNO (with James Bailey & dreamSTATE's
Jamie Todd).
Matthew is fluent in dub, sample culture and found-sound improvisation.
Scott and Jamie have worked with Matthew in many sound projects and
are very pleased to welcome him to the Drone Cycle.
Matt
is also a member of NOiNO
with Jamie from dreamSTATE
and experimental improvisor James Bailey. They'll be performing
the second set in their traditional free improvisational free-fall.
Tuesday
February 7th, 2012 @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College. MAP
THE
AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
Set-times: dreamSTATE 9:00pm + NOiNO 10:00pm
dreamSTATE
with Heike
2012.01.10 - photo by Rich Baker
Tuesday,
January 10th, 2012, on the "chromatic anniversary"
of the Drone Cycle 2000 dreamSTATE begin the Cycle again,
with new special guests as they traverse the scale back downward:
January in C, February in B... as they bring the Drone home.
dreamSTATE's
special guest for January is Heiki
Sillaste, probably best
known for his work in his groups Digital Poodle, Kinder Atom and
Lazer Caps and his labels Paper+Sound, nice+smooth and
Shadow Canada. Heiki has released an impressive catalogue of well
over 45 synthesizer-based records and made over 150 compilation
appearances, including works with Rapoon and Zoviet France.
Tuesday
January 10th @ Supermarket . 268 Augusta Ave.
Kensington Market . Toronto - just south of College. MAP
THE
AMBiENT PiNG doors open at 8:00pm . $6 at the door
1st set at 8:30 . Treeotica
2nd set at 9:30 . dreamSTATE with Heiki
3rd set at 10:30 . Heiki
Tuesday
September 20th, 2011- 8pm ~ dreamSTATE will perform a set of electronic
strangeness
and charm at Somewhere There, and then will join the evening's host Alan Bloor
(Knurl / Pholde)
and friends Matthew Poulakakis (Automatic Fats / Salvagesound) and James Bailey
(6 Heads / NOiNO) for a set of improvisations yet to be imagined.
Somewhere
There is located at 227 Sterling Road - Unit 112
Toronto - just south of Bloor St. W.on Ruttan St. Directions
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August
29th, 2011 ~ Chalk for Jack Layton
- Cloud Painting #22 Ambient video with music by dreamSTATE
A
video tribute by dreamSTATE's Scott M2 to well-respected Canadian polititian
Jack Layton
inspired by the many hundreds of personal messages left in chalk on the walls
and sidewalks
outside of Toronto City Hall after his death on August 22, 2011.
The soundtrack is Deeper by dreamSTATE.
"I
visited to read the messages and found them thoughtful, emotional and inspirational.
I was moved to photograph many of them before they were washed away in the
rain
and to make this film - a personal statement in art for Jack and an attempt
to see
the future with less cynicism and more optimism." - Scott M2
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Saturday March 26th, 2011. 8PM - dreamSTATE will perform a special
one-off
everyday-junk music performance for the New
Adventures In Sound Art (NAISA)
Sound Bash Fundraiser @ the NAISA Space, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto - $20
(Artscape Wychwood Barns . SW of Bathurst & St Clair)
Up
first will be the amazing Rick Sacks who performs as a percussionist with
Arraymusic,
The Glass Orchestra, Art of Time, Evergreen Club Gamelan and many others.
Rick will play the heck out of the special installation's everyday objects
throughout the NAISA space.
For
the dreamSTATE set Scott M2 will scrape, bang, bow & excite the
everyday
sound-objects that make up the installation while Jamie Todd processes the
sounds
he discovers in the objects in real-time through a convoluted laptop quad
EFX matrix
that will make abundant use of NAISA's multichannel speaker system
for an immersive surround-sound experience.
Jamie
and Scott are proud to help support NAISA's endeavors.
They encourage you to visit their home soundspace for this event
and to support their continuing adventures in Sound Art.
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Tuesday March 8th, 2011 - dreamSTATE's Jamie Todd will be
performing a solo URM
set
at THE AMBiENT PiNG to celebrate
the release of his album Stratification
on the ping
things label.
@
SuperMarket
- (268 Augusta Ave, just south of College St. in Kensington Market, Toronto)
Doors 8pm - 1st Set 8:30pm - $6 at the door.
dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2010:
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October 10th, 2010, 10:10 pm- dreamSTATE release 10
10 10 - a free 10-minute megamix of their
a decade dreaming album, created and released in a ten-hour denary-inspired
session by Scott M2.
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May 12th - June 6th, 2010 ~ Rain of Fireis a new multimedia collaboration
between dreamSTATE's Scott
M2
and poet/fiberartist Lynn Harrigan that combines embroidery, poetry and ambient
video painting to address the vulnerability
of so many during these times of rapid economic change. Created as part of
their developing Oblique Poetries series,
the piece reflects the emotions of people trapped by the economic collapse
of recent times and the false promises
of the global new world order. Left exposed and unprotected, there is no solace
in the gospels of greed.
Rain
of Fire marks the first installment of Intersections,
a three part series curated by Simone Rojas-Pick and Jessica Nagy,
centered around the concept of the “mash-up”; where two or more
voices/mediums/styles are combined to create a single work. Intersections
is the first phase of the Launch Pad Project for Gallery
1313’s Window Box,
featuring 5 emerging curators, running from May 2010 to April 2011.
Opening
Reception: Thursday, May 13, 7:00—10: 00 p.m.
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Wednesday. April 28 ~ dreamSTATE perform on Night Two of THE
AMBiENT PiNG's
first Toronto Ambient Music Festival with Pholde and naw and General
Chaos Visuals.
This trip, dreamSTATE will explore the surface: rolling the highways,
seeking the mysteries,
floating through forests and turning the soil in the Firegarden.
@
SuperMarket
- (268 Augusta Ave, just south of College St. in Kensington Market, Toronto)
Doors 8pm - 1st Set 8:30pm - $6 at the door.
dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2009:
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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.
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.
For
those who prefer CD-quality with graphics & a jewel-case, a
low-priced CD version is now available.
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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
dreamSTATE Selected Events in 2008:
Eric,
Scott + Jamie at the Canadian Textile Museum Theatre 2008 09 21 - photo by
Catherine Tammaro
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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
dreamSTATE
- Soundscape for Richard Wright A film by Scott M2 for dreamSTATE's homage to Pink Floyd keyboardist
Richard Wright (July 23, 1945 - September 15, 2008).
Concert
footage filmed September 21st 2008 by Jeff Howard,
additional footage by Scott M2, analog light projections by General Chaos
Visuals,
and music by dreamSTATE
(Scott M2 and Jamie Todd) with Eric Hopper.
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Sunday September 14, 2008dreamSTATE 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
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.
dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2007:
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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)
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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.
dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2006:
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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
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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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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
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Lynn Harrigan and Scott M2 perform Oblique Poetries ~ dreamSTATE
and The Devil In The Design perform the WhiteVariations Photos by Jamie Todd and Eric Hopper
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dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2005:
Scott
M2 and Lynn Harrigan
perform
Moon Sea Crossing @ THE AMBiENT PiNG Nov.8th, 2005
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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.
dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2004:
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.
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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 TimedreamSTATE
will be performing
a multi-hour live concert onlinevia 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.
@ 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
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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
Pritchardand 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
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~ 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
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dreamSTATE
Selected Events in 2003:
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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
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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
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~ July 1st 2003dreamSTATE 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
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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
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April 15th 2003 ~ Jamie Todd's URM
soundscape project went live for the 1st time @ THE
AMBiENT PiNG
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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
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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
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Photos by Julius Oklamcak
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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 computersand Scott M2
-
Photos by Jamie Todd
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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
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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
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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
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Click below for photos and personal commentary from the band on selected past
events.
