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Some more video that I shot from the TLB in May of 2006, at Lee’s Palace, Toronto, Canada. “Pieces of the Sun.”

Some video I shot a while back. TLB opens the show with some “barbershop quartet!”  Nice to hear some a cappella from these guys, it was certainly a surprise! Live from Lee’s Palace in Toronto, Canada in May 2006.

This is a short doc I made in 2007, just put it up on Blip.tv

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Another one “from the vaults” that just got put on Blip.tv

I’ve been getting some of my videos “from the vault” up on Blip.tv and I hope you’ll enjoy this great performance from the super-talented Mike West!

A live show of The Ministry of Inside Things from 2006 at The Ambient Ping in Toronto. Video produced and directed by David Sloma for Rockin’ Films.

“The Ministry of Inside Things, consisting of electronic musician Chuck van Zyl and electric guitarist Art Cohen, are considered among the most innovative of US synthesists today. Influenced by the early music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze and Ash Ra Tempel, their spacemusic has been described as linear, leading the listener across many sonic terrains. Based on improvisation, The Ministry of Inside Things creates electronic realizations that flow from theme to theme, with the experience often lasting up to two hours. Through use of textures and atmospheres as well as harmony, rhythm and melody, the group transports the audience on an internal sonic excursion. van Zyl has been recording electronic music and performing live for more than 20 years but is best known for hosting one of the country’s most successful radio shows of electronic music, STAR’S END, for the past 27 years. van Zyl has released two CDs of spacemusic on the Centaur label, Celestial Mechanics and The Relic as well as a collaborative effort with Peter Gulch, Regeneration Mode on Synkronos and The Sound Museum with Gulch and Rath on Groove Ltd. Art Cohen has been pushing the limits of the electric guitar in the studio and in live performance for well over 15 years.” – http://members.bellatlantic.net/~chuckv/moit.html

Here I talk about how I made my recent short doc “Go Electric Music Festival 2010″ (in Sorauren Park, Toronto, Canada).” If you have any questions about this film, issue, process or filmmaking in general, leave a comment and I’ll answer it if I can. Also, you can subscribe to my YouTube channel if you like my videos so you can be updated on what’s new. For those really gung-ho, there’s a newsletter sign up on this blog! – Dave

I’ll be calling into the HOWL radio show tonight on CIUT in Toronto (89.5 fm) at 10pm eastern time, to briefly talk about my film GOTH:insideOUT. You can listen online at ciut.fm

edit > This was a pretty interesting show!

The Howl Radio Show on CIUT FM in Toronto from Nov 2, 2010 (they are funding now, so please support them if you can http://www.ciut.fm/). I called in about my film GOTH:insideOUT, also a recorded interview with WoodStock Founder Artie Kornfeld, Martin Scorcese biographer Vincent La Brutto, poet Madison Shadwell. Music by Random Robbery. With hosts Nik Beat and Bianca Zenia.

Nuit Blanche 2010 Daniel Lanois “Later That Night At The Drive-In”