is an artist who works with sound

A rotation of sound projects by artists and musicians and a documentation of wordly music, curated by Riccardo Giagni (2002) including

Sylvi MacCormac Co-Op Radio: Changing Times 2001 (42:35)

Glenn Gould The Idea of North 1976 (58:53)

Brian Eno/RobertSheckley/PeterSinfield In a Land of Clear Colours 1979 (50:26)

Jean-Luc Godard Histoire(s) du cinéma – Part 2 1999 (41:36)

Gavin Bryars/Juan Moñoz A man in a room, gambling 1992 (51:22)

http://www.radioartemobile.it/

http://www.radioartemobile.it/pages/flussoram.htm

Small Boy (:60) with Rex Smallboy speaking of Nepi / Water is “appearing” in reel time during 60×60 Dance, Oscar Peterson Concert Hall, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dec 4, 2009, Free  - http://finearts.concordia.ca/newsandevents/events/60×60-dance.php

60X60 DANCE CANADA is a project containing 60 solo choreographies to 60 electroacoustic pieces by 60 Canadian composers, each piece 60 seconds or less in duration. The pieces are sequenced together without pause to form an exactly one hour long performance. The sound will be projected in multichannel through 8 loudspeakers, and the dance and music will be accompanied by live video projection of an analog clock, spectrographic images, and dance footage. This event is the third (and biggest) of the Canadian 60×60 Dance, organized by Eldad Tsabary, Violaine Morinville, Tim Sutton, and Rob Voisey. Through this inter-artistic hour-long collaborative creation, 60×60 seeks to support and highlight the contemporary art community. This show is presented in collaboration with the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).

Music by

Asoma, Zorina Bacchus, Adam Basanta, Sandeep Bhagwati, Adrian Borza, Christian Calon, David Campbell, Matt Campbell, Raylene Campbell, CDZabu, Gustav Ciamaga, Patrick Sébastien Coulombe, Ian Crutchley, Dancers, Leslie de Melcher, Debashis Sinha, Richard Désilets, Francis Dhomont, Nicolas Dion, Patricia L. Dirks, Carey Dodge, The Dry Heeves, Troy Ducharme, Jean-Michel Dumas, Philippe-Aubert Gauthier, François Girouard, Philip Gosselin, Martin Gotfrit, Tim Hecker, Bryan Jacobs, Bentley Jarvis, Yota Kobayashi, Shaw-han Liem (I am Robot and Proud), Sylvi macCormac, Florence Masson, David McCallum, Andra McCartney, Diana McIntosh, Dustin Molicki, Steven Naylor, Raphaël Néron-Baribeau, David Ogborn, John Oliver, Sean O’Neill, David Parfit, Lia Pas, Sarah Peebles, Scott Peterson, Michael Pinsonneault, Ambrose Pottie, Hélène Prévost, Jean Routhier, Frederick Schipizky, Zuzana Sevcikova, Laurence Stevenson, Nancy Tobin, Roxanne Turcotte, Steve Wadhams, Matthew Wood, Kamen Zenov

http://www.idanzcritixcorner.com/2009/11/dance-review-60×60-new-family-reunion.html

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

www.vancouverdisabilitiesday.ca

Thursday, December 3, 2009 1pm-6:30pm at the Roundhouse

3:35pm in centre of Hall : sylvi macCormac will present WHEELS Soundscapes: Voices of People with Disabilities and play very bad Harmonica with Aural Shadows from Raven Shadows CD (2006)

COASTAL CHANTS CD & Digital Release (2008)

re-release of Tape (1992) with 5 xtr unreleased trks from Too Young Too Old (1994) and spoken word, Who is She ? Fragile as SuperMan (1:00) (1998)    see through publishing 04 CD / 01 Tape

http://www.canada.com/topics/entertainment/movie-guide/story.html?id=01181282-25bf-4d90-aa1f-cbc79a7de904

Tom Harrison, The Province, Published: Tuesday, November 18, 2008

STILL TUNED TO FOLK

Last night, Sylvi MacCormac oversaw the CD release of her Coastal Chants at Iron Works. This might be her most accomplished and focused collection, with its pronounced sense of atmosphere and MacCormac’s dusky folk voice. She’s been immersed in spoken word, sound collages and other projects, but she first was recognized as a folk-influenced singer and is impressive in that role.

SoundCrawl:Nashville - http://www.soundcrawlnashville.com/index.html – 2009

does this SOUND like me ? (5:42) xrpt w th voices of 21 artists w dis abilities 2001

composed for KickstART! Society for Disability Arts & Culture http://www.s4dac.org

For the first time ever, Nashville will introduce a sound art festival in conjunction with the city’s monthly Art Crawl. On October 3, Nashvillians will be among the first in the nation to experience a festival of this type, an international festival bringing new compositions from all over the world.

Where better to introduce this than Music City.

SoundCrawl:Nashville Sound Art Festival Oct. 3 – By Steve Haruch in Cream Calendar

http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/nashvillecream/2009/09/sound_art_festival_comes_to_na.php

CARVING CANOES : FOR THE WILD from Voices & Wheels CD (2000)
with photos by John Clarke Xwexwsélkn & film by Hali Tsui

for more info about John Clarke Xwexwsélkn – www.wilded.org

on Uts’am / Witness CD (2004) – www.utsam-witness.ca

on Voices & Wheels CD (2000) – www.sylvi.ca

COLOUR COMPASSION from Phoenix CD (1996)
with Barbara Bourget from Kokoro Dance – www.kokoro.ca
AD & Papiér Sculpture by Nicole Dextras – www.nicoledextras.com

Phoenix CD (1996) Co-Produced with Colin Nairne

Small Boy (1:02) is printed on Deep Wireless 6 CD (2009)

http://www.naisa.ca/deepwireless/Radio.html

Cree Nation, Rex Smallboy, speaks about Nepi / Water and tells us that Aski means Earth; Yoten means Wind. Paddle in Lake (recorded by David Murphy – www.sfu.ca). Small Boy, Stringed Instrument & Melismatic Male Vocalist – recorded with permission at Vancouver Folk Music Festival 2006 – http://www.thefestival.bc.ca

Rex Smallboy Hip Hops wit War Party from Winnepeg, Canada – www.warparty.ca -

composed for 60×60 – http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/10_4/sonusgallery_tsabary.html

Small Boy (:60) will be part of VFMF Soundscapes 1999-2009

WHEELS Soundscapes: Voices of People with Dis Abilities – http://www.VAMS.org

Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS) — Music studio for people with disabilities; Mini-Interview with sylvi macCormac

In 2008 VAMS launched an accessible space designed to meet the needs of people with a wide range of disabilities and musical capabilities. Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS) was founded in the late 1980s to support and promote musicians with physical disabilities in the Metro Vancouver area.

http://CEC.concordia.ca/eContact/11_2/VAMS_macCormac.html

Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) Communauté Électroacoustique Canadienne

eContact! 11.2 - Canadian Figures is the second issue focussing on Canadian electroacousticians and presents an overview of the broad range of practices that have formed the Canadian electroacoustic landscape, one which is as vast and diverse as the geography of Canada itself.

VAMS MUSIC SAVES Project was developed to create awareness of VAMS and the wonderful work it does to help create a level playing field for the disabled. This video is an example of how we believe that music can have an incredible positive influence in peoples lives therapeutically and creatively. Programs such as this are important to recognize and support. We believe that music makes a difference and can heal, enrich and inspire positivity and creativity. – www.VAMS.org – www.shore104.com

MUSIC SAVES – Vancouver Adapted Music Society’s Music Saves Video Projectshowcases a stellar array of West Coast music scene names.

Produced by Shore 104 FM, it features Jim Byrnes, Geoff Hicks, Shaun Verreault, The Sojourners, Adaline, Daniel Wesley, Shane Turner, Jets Overhead, and Ndidi Onukwulu join VAMS members Sylvi MacCormac and Rolf Kempf in an amazing cover of Bob Dylan’s I Shall Be Released.

Jim Byrnes, an original VAMS member and supporter, says the choice of song was “brilliant, because the theme of the song fits so well with the mandate VAMS lives by: music truly sets you free.

“We are all prisoners in some way. We have a physical disability or a mental disability or we’re afraid of something in our lives; but I think this project is an opportunity to show how this music, that we love so much, is a way to set us all free and allows us to be a part of the world that surrounds us.”

VAMS MUSIC SAVES Video celebrates healing power of music.
Vancouver Adapted Music Society supports musicians with physical disabilities.
BY CHANTAL EUSTACE, VANCOUVER SUNSEPTEMBER 3, 2009
http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/music/Video+celebrates+healing+power+music/1958109/story.html

Straight Goods CD (2008) – www.vams.org – includes Why ? from Phoenix CD (1996) Co-Produced with Colin Nairne at Boneyard Studios, the working studio of Barney Bentall & Legendary Hearts

On the Coast – www.CBC.ca – August 19, 2009 - Coming up on our next show, a new recording studio for musicians with special mobility needs is making it possible, for them to make music again. VAMS (Van Adapted Music Society) including Bobbi Style, sylvi macCormac, Joe Coughlin with Producer Robert Willis.

THE EXPRESS on SHAW, SEPT 17 @ 3/6/10PM – Interview Filmed at VAMS STUDIO at GF STRONG

http://vancouver.shawtv.com/The_Express/theexpress_main.htm

Behind the scenes look and the people, names, and faces that contributed the making of the Shore 104 FM VAMS – Music Saves video. Video production in Vancouver by www.odpn.ca