An artist who works with sound.

http://vancouver.ca/parks/arts/remarkablewomen2012.htm

iTunes

http://www.VOXNOVUS.com/

http://www.ICMC2010.org/

http://www.WARPARTY.ca/

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfvbt2xc_1d3x4m9gf

http://www.voxnovus.com/60×60/2010_Magenta_Mix.htm

Small Boy (:60) by sylvi macCormac with Rex Smallboy from War Party speaking of Nepi / Water will be part of the Magenta Mix of 360 degrees of 60×60 at 2010 ICMC RED Edition in New York City and Stony Brook, NY, USA from June 1-5 2010

2010 International Computer Music Conference
[R.E.D. Edition] Research Education Discovery

Stony Brook University, in association with New York University, and the Electronic Music Foundation of New York City, will host the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in New York City and Stony Brook, NY, USA from June 1-5 2010.

New York, NY – June 1 & 2
Stony Brook University – June 3, 4, 5

60×60 contains 60 works from 60 different composers. Each composition is 60
seconds (or less) in duration sequenced together to create a one hour
performance. Highlighting the work of a great many composers, 60×60
testifies to the vibrancy of contemporary composition by presenting the
diverse array of styles, aesthetics and techniques being used today.

Robert Voisey  http://www.VoxNovus.com

ABILITIES EXPO! Celebrates the Art of the Possible – ConnecTra’s multi-agency resource fair connected hundreds of individuals with disabillities and Metro Vancouver’s most useful service providers … “I really liked the focus on abilities at the Expo. There were people from all over who were working, and involved in the arts, and really participating and doing amazing things in the community”, said Paul Gauthier, Network Coordinator for the BC Personal Supports Network … The event was also noteworthy for being the launch of musician sylvi macCormac’s ambitious multimedia project, Th Rose & Th Railway. This combines the written word, with music and environmental recordings to delve back into the life and times of Irish poet WB Yeats. May 2010 ConnecTra Newsletter

www.connectra.org
Creating Opportunities for People with Disabilities
www.vams.org
Vancouver Adapted Music Society
www.vams.org/artists/sylvi-maccormac.html

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)

Kickstart Festival 2010 – an inspiring array of exhibits, performances and workshops that will be presented to Vancouver audiences, as well as to our 2010 Winter Paralympics guests, from March 8 to 27.

Come, be amazed by the Kickstart Festival Experience !

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Heroes

March 8-27, 2010

Twenty artists from across Canada explore the meaning of “heroism” from a disability perspective. Curated by Sima Elizabeth Shefrin and Bernadine Fox

sylvi macCormac & Nicole Dextras collaborate to create a hand made paper book

Heroes
Pendulum Gallery
HSBC Building, 885 West Georgia Street
Reception: March 11, 7-9pm
Hours: Monday – Wednesday: 9am – 6pm
Thursday and Friday: 9am – 9pm, Saturday: 9am – 5pm
Closed Sundays and Holidays
Free

Presented in partnership with the Pendulum Gallery (www.pendulumgallery.bc.ca)

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)

BrianEno 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).

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.