a few clonky details we want to make you aware of and share with you

[Neil Wiernik <neil@xxxxxxxxx>]

hello

we just wanted to make you all aware of the following things going on over
this next week and at the same time give you all some genrally interesting
clonky info about the future of clonk.

the index for this newletter is as follows:

1. Nazis off our streets
2. The Ambient Ping presents dropfile + Pholde
3. oppresto counter concert: the full details
4. clonk goes home...

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1. Protest- Nazis off our streets EMERGENCY PROTEST Monday July 15 5pm
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Protest- Nazis off our streets! Monday July 15

please post widely

*** EMERGENCY PROTEST ***

NAZIS OFF OUR STREETS!
Monday, July 15, 2002
5:00 PM
Bathurst and Lawrence, N. W. corner
(Toronto Canada)

David Rosenzweich, a chasidic Jewish man, 48 years old and the
father of
six, was stabbed to death around 1:00 AM on the morning of Sunday
July 14,
on Bathurst Street near Lawrence Avenue. He was stabbed,
according to press
reports, "by a young group of three people, described by
witnesses as
skinheads."
The police are "looking at hate as the motivation for the
stabbing."
The killing occurred after an altercation at a nearby restaurant,
King David
Pizza on Bathurst Street. David Rosenzweich was not involved in

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2. The Ambient Ping presents dropfile + Pholde Tuesday July 16th
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Tuesday July 16th
The Ambient Ping presents:
dropfile and Pholde (Knurl)
Free
club nia / C'est What - 19 Church St. at Front St
(Toronto Canada)
doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30

Matt Borghi will not be able to travel from Detroit to
perform this Tuesday so we're happy to be able to "drop" the very
cool new microsound/dub duo, dropfile, into the crowded Ping schedule
and present this intriguing double-bill of bowed steel soundsculptures
from Pholde and the two laptop manipulators of dropfile.

dropfile began as an abstract broken-beat dub microsound alter ego
for Neil Wiernik (aka naw) a little over a year ago. Neil has recently
been joined by the very talented Jakob Thiesen to complete the sound
and vision of the project. Their maiden performance together recently
took place at the OM festival as the two wooed the audience with their
own special brand of broken-beat dub-oriented abstract ambience.

Neil Wiernik - http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com/naw.htm
Jakob Thiesen - http://www.theambientping.com/thiesen/home.html

Opening the night is Pholde, the ambient soundscape project of
Alan Bloor, who is also known for his extreme noise project, Knurl.
All of Alan's sounds are created from bowing and striking his unique
steel sculptures which are then treated through guitar effects pedals.
(Alan will have CDs available of some of his Pholde releases.)

Pholde - http://www.theambientping.com/pholde/home.html
THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com

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3. oppresto counter concert: the full details july 18th 8pm
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oppresto counter concert: the full details

july 18th 8pm
in front of 303 augusta ave. toronto canada
free

with live music by:
naw
dropfile
self service
one caballero
the blamshifter
iam robot and proud

guest speakers:
tullia marcolongo
unite
ian thomson
maquila solidarity network
jim munroe
dave meslin
toronto public space committee

the purpose of this event:
we dont want nike moving into our neighbourhood, co-opting our bands and
using us a human billboards to market its sweatshop goods. join us in
urging nike to spend its money to ensure sweatshop workers receive a fair
wage, not on slick marketing campaigns to infiltrate and co-opt toronto
artists, musicians and youth.

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4. clonk goes home...
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Its been a long time comming that clonk co founder Neil Wiernik return
home to Montreal. Well the time has now come. As of August 1st 2002 clonk
co founder and resident artist Neil Wiernik aka naw will be making
Montreal his clonky home. What does this all mean for clonk? Well it means
that our home base for clonk will be in Montreal. does this mean that
clonk events will no longer happen in Toronto? no clonk plans to continue
to be active in both cities, give us a few months to work out all the
finer details of things but in the near future both Toronto and Montreal
folks will have the pleasure of having clonk satalite events in thier home
town. we plan on expanding the collective base in order to keep things
running as smooth as they have been up to now. will Neil still have a hand
in how things function for the remote clonk events that take place in
toronto? yes being the only active founding member of clonk Neil plans on
keeping his hands in both pots and even possibly attend/play events in
both cites as much as possible. the curatorial menthods will still be the same
for choosing event line ups and supporting visual artists for each event
but will just take place remotely. just give us some time to get things
running properly so that we can make sure that we are able to provide you
the same quality of event that we have brought to you up untill now.

Thanks for taking the time to read this and we hope to see you all out at
one or more of these events over the next week...

clonk...