National Drone Day, undoubtedly one of Canada's newest and most unique holidays (its inaugural appearance was May 10, 2014) will return in 2015 on May 9 with over twenty events across Canada from Halifax to Iqaluit.

Not an excuse for Deadmau5 to shoot at flying gadgets, Drone Day is rather a celebration of drone music's dreamy or foreboding, nearly formless sound - think that Justin Bieber song slowed down 800%, Nadja's most ambient works, or the gentle hum of your space heater. Yes, Canada has a day entirely focused around experimental music. Maybe we're not so messed up after all.

Drone Day is an initiative from Weird Canada and Wyrd Distro's Marie Claire Flanagan, who states: "Drone music... is a re-imagining, a redefining of the ears' relationship to silence... easy to understand but broad enough to encapsulate a wide variety of experimental streams. It's a fixed-point singleton for the avant-garde; challenging, yet accessible to the layperson, with a creative path stretching onto infinite horizons."

Toronto's only 2015 event so far is the return of Ambient Ping's matinee, moving from Array Space to napper's paradise Ratio on College from 2:15-4:30pm sharp with Anomolous Distubances (Vancouver) and dreamSTATE. 2014 also featured evening events at the Tranzac with Black Walls and at May with Egyptrixx's A/B til Infinity (and napping couches).

More events around Toronto will be announced in the coming weeks. If you'd like to participate in Drone Day, email Weird Canada.

Will you take a drone selfie on Drone Day? Let us know in the comments.

Photo of Ratio by Matt Forsythe.