For Immediate Release / Pour Diffusion immédiate
to be released
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 12:30pm
End Time: Nõ End Time
Location:
www.sylvi.ca
Description:
Th Rose & Th Railway: of Yeats & Nõ Being & Blooming on Line
about WB Yeats, the Japanese Nõ Theatre, Maud Gonne and Being in Relation to Language
with Hyper*Text*Music*L’image*Sound
Audio Tracks include
Aural Shadows, 8 Directions, Railway Lines: Trains o Thought
presented originally @ *e-lounge* 2001, Vancouver New Music Festival – www.newmusic.org/
Nõ Book (eBook) © 2010 online, 1999 off line
sylvi & see through publishing (socan) *except as noted*

while Nõ Book is released online @ 12:30
sylvi macCormac will perform and read
from th Rose & th Railway at
CONNECTRA ABILITIES EXPO
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
12:30 to 4:30 pm
Roundhouse Community Centre
EXHIBITION HALL – 181 Roundhouse Mews
Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory, B.C.
www.connectra.org/
“Sylvi is an inspiration to the world. A superb composer and sound artist who easily rises above every conceivable obstacle to create memorable and demanding projects with extremely positive social values” Charlie Richmond – www.richmondsounddesign.com/
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Aural Shadows: o th Rose & th Railway
like ships that should never pass
lines that would never cross
cousins that could never kiss
from opposite sides of the tracks
with theremin on the radio
you are beautiful and gone
with breezes off the water
and the train slowing down
i was going to bring you a book of yeats
from the bookstore down the street
no realizing our hearts might never meet
we are our mothers daughters
and our fathers child
down by the water side
forever wild
like ships that should never pass
lines that would never cross
cousins that could never kiss
from opposite sides of the tracks
then why is our baby girl
more than ten years old
forever greater
than any gold
and do you still read that book of yeats
from the tower down the street
the one i gave you long ago
so our hearts might meet
were we just some aural shadows
through the sky
as upwords
shooting stars go by
like ships that should never pass
lines that would never cross
cousins that could never kiss
from opposite sides of the tracks
with dripsody on the radio
we are here and then gone
with breezes off the water
and the train slowing down
Theremin – electronic musical instrument which responds to movements of hands, inventor Leon Termen (1920’s Russia)
Dripsody – composition with sounds of water drops by Hugh LeCaine, electronic synthesis pioneer (1955 Canada)
Aural Shadows: of th Rose & th Railway (5:30)
appears on Raven Shadows CD (2006)