The Feather

Feather will feature in an upcoming book/dvd that will include footage of sylvi, who has multiple sclerosis, when she was standing and playing guitar.

sylvi macCormac recording The Feather at Vancouver Adapted Music Society’s fully-accessible recording studio.

sylvi’s music runs from folk to cinema-for-the-ears soundscapes. Her songs have a particular depth.

The VAMS recording studio, located at GF Strong Rehab Centre, has all-custom equipment that makes music accessible. More: www.vams.org

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P A T I E N C E   &    A B S U R D I T Y      2012      15:47  (running time)

http://movingimages.ca/store/products.php?patience_and_absurdity

Debut at Wide Angle Media Festival Gala at the Roundhouse, March 23 and March 25, 2012

Wide Angle Media Festival http://wideanglemedia.ca

P A T I E N C E & A B S U R D I T Y
STARRING: SYLVIA MACCORMAC AND SYLVI MACCORMAC
PRODUCED & DIRECTED BY: PAULA COLE & SYLVI MACCORMAC
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: D’ARCY HAMILTON
MUSIC BY: SYLVI MACCORMAC
EDITOR: THOMAS WESTON
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS:
VALERIE VANDERSTAPPEN & HELEN MASAMBAL
Running Time: 15:47

ONE LINE
Patience and Absurdity shows the synchronized interaction of
a mother and daughter as they move through life together, leading and
following, enriching each other’s experiences, sharing stories of a
life well lived and creating memories soon forgotten.

SHORT SYNOPSIS

Life is fluid, ever changing and uncertain as time physically and
mentally taunts us, washing away the memories we create with those we
love. Patience and Absurdity shows the synchronized interaction of a
mother and daughter as they move through life together, leading and
following, enriching each other’s experiences and sharing stories of a
life well lived. We see that it takes a great deal of loving patience
to be kind and selfless in caring for family. Sylvi and Sylvia reveal
that anxiety and grief, joy and humorous absurdity reside in the
middle of the difficulty.

 

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Waves of Kokoro (10:45) 1999

Electroacoustic Soundscape for Kokoro Dance   www.kokoro.ca

Video shot by Gene Greenwood  2009

This video is made in Deep Cove , B.C. Canada. The track is from a friend of mine, SYLVI MACCORMAC. This track is titled  WAVES OF KOKORO from the CD Voices and Wheels..

sylvi macCormac – www.sylvi.ca

Sylvi received Honourable Mention at the International Musique Electroacoustique Bourges, France (1999) for Waves of Kokoro, with the Voices & Breaths of Kokoro Dances Barbara Bourget & Jay Hirabayashi, Birds & West Coast Soundscape – http://www.IMEB.net -

Waves of Kokoro – electroacoustic soundscape for Kokoro Dance (10:45) 1999 voices: Barbara Bourget, Jay Hirabyashi, Crows, Seagulls, Waves from West Coast of Canada recordings & composing: sylvi macCormac – printed on Music Works #74 – http://www.musicworks.ca – performed with Kokoro Dance – http://www.sfu.ca – presented at SONIC BOOM 2003 annual showcase of BC composers and LEAPS Van Pro Musica 1999

Electroacoustics (including Soundscape Composition) stretches the boundaries of music by collaging sound, story and song, transforming sound sources with signal processing and combining them in creative ways. Diffusion extends familiar structures, by placing the listener inside the soundscape while inviting us on imaginary journeys.

 

 

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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

 

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COLOUR COMPASSION (6:00) from Phoenix CD (1996)

with Dancer Choreographer Barbara Bourget

from Kokoro Dance - http://www.kokoro.ca

AD & Papiér Sculpture by Nicole Dextras - http://www.dextrasdesigns.com

Produced by Sylvi with Ted Herman with assistance of Bravo! FACT

Director: Douglas Thompson - http://www.directordouglas.com

Director of Photography : Adam Slawinsky

Production Design : Jamie Robbins

Writer : sylvi macCormac

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Accessible Media Inc. report on The The Disability Foundation / ConnecTra 2013 Abilities Expo, featuring a few familiar faces…including Sylvi MacCormac

Published on 11 Jun 2013
Vancouver is gaining a reputation as one of Canada’s most accessible cities and part of that is an on-going effort to raise awareness. Every year, the city hosts an Abilities Expo for people with disabilities and Gary Steeves of AMI Vancouver paid a visit. AMI wanted to show some of the services and ideas on display but Gary was also interested in what our interview guests found was missing from the expo.

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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.
Video production in Vancouver by www.odpn.ca

 

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A 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

 

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SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability    2006       71 min 30 seconds

Directed by Bonnie Sherr Klein

Produced by Tracey Friesen

Production Agency National Film Board of Canada 

includes xcrpt of Spirit Wheels: Journey by sylvi macCormac accompanying paralympic dancer Kelly Smith with wheelchair & metal wings. Choreography & Wings by Geoff McMurchy

Wheel 3 of the WHEELS Project (begun 1997) with the voices of people with dis abilities at SFU & VAMS – van adapted music society – http://www.vams.org

Spirit Wheels : Journey – part 1 of Puppet Opera in 3 parts (3:06) WHEEL No.3 with the voices of people with (dis) abilities; words & voices: Geoff McMurchy (& metal sculpture), Anastasia Rudkievich Briggs, Jayne Dinsmore, Daniel Hunt, Philip Murphy (& penny whistle traditional … the hag with the money) words, recordings & composing: sylvi macCormac (1997)

also on Presence II CD 2000 - http://cec.concordia.ca - performed at Sonic Boom 1999

Art, activism and disability are the starting point for what unfolds as a funny and intimate portrait of five surprising individuals. Director Bonnie Sherr Klein (Not a Love Story, and Speaking Our Peace) has been a pioneer of women’s cinema and an inspiration to a generation of filmmakers around the world.SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability marks Klein’s return to a career interrupted by a catastrophic stroke in 1987. Always the activist, she now turns the lens on the world of disability culture, and ultimately, the transformative power of art. Joining Klein are a group of artists with diverse (dis)abilities. Humourist David Roche is taking his one man show, The Church of 80% Sincerity, to New York’s off-Broadway. Poet and scholar Catherine Frazee is navigating a jam-packed schedule of teaching and speaking engagements. Dancer, choreographer and impresario Geoff McMurchy is organizing KickstART, an international festival of disability art. Sculptor and writer Persimmon Blackbridge is creating mixed media portraits from “meaningful junk”. Klein gathers these artists for a pyjama party where they take a subversive look at Hollywood stereotypes of people with disabilities: The Monster, The Saint, The Psycho, the Poor Little Crippled Girl, etc. The artists decide to turn the tables, making a pact to meet a year later at the KicksART Festival with the intent of creating their own images of disability. The film tracks this motley gang of five from the BC Gulf Islands, to Nova Scotia and south to San Francisco while they create and then present their multi-faceted self-representations. As we get to know each of these remarkable people driven by a passion for art and transformation, the everyday complexities and unexpected richness of life with a disability are exposed. Packed with humour and raw energy, SHAMELESS: the ART of Disability is a revelation of a film: honest, vulnerable and filled

Links

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• Description

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Credits

Collaborating artists
Persimmon Blackbridge
Catherine Frazee
Geoff McMurchy
David Roche

Director
Bonnie Sherr Klein

Writer
Bonnie Sherr Klein

Producer
Tracey Friesen

Editor
Lara Mazur

Cinematographer
Kirk Tougas

Composer
Veda Hille

Assistant director
Teri Snelgrove

Location sound recording
Jeff Henschel

Sound supervisor
Gael MacLean

http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/index.php?id=51620

includes xcrpt of Spirit Wheels: Journey (xrpt) by sylvi macCormac accompanying paralympic dancer Kelly Smith with wheelchair & metal wings. Choreography & Wings by Geoff McMurchy

Wheel 3 of the WHEELS Project (begun 1997) with the voices of people with dis abilities at SFU & VAMS – van adapted music society – http://www.vams.org

Spirit Wheels : Journey – part 1 of Puppet Opera in 3 parts (3:06) WHEEL No.3 with the voices of people with (dis) abilities; words & voices: Geoff McMurchy (& metal sculpture), Anastasia Rudkievich Briggs, Jayne Dinsmore, Daniel Hunt, Philip Murphy (& penny whistle traditional … the hag with the money) words, recordings & composing: sylvi macCormac (1997)

also on Presence II CD 2000 - http://cec.concordia.ca - performed at Sonic Boom 1999

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OFF BALANCE Dragon Boat Team (30:00) DVD 2008
an inspiring, empowering, uplifting true story of living beyond MS
Directed by Sylvia Coates  featuring Members of the Off Balance Dragon Boat Team
and sylvi macCormac’s ‘On the Drive’ from Phoenix CD (1996)

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sylvi’s CDs avail Able @ CDBaby & itunes & HighLifeWorld

Hear also @

http://music.cbc.ca/#/bands/sylvi-macCormac

myspace.com/sylvimacCormac

http://www.reverbnation.com/sylvimaccormac

https://twitter.com/sylvimacCormac

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FOLK

Sylvi performed from the 1980′s-2000 at various venues including

Vancouver Folk Music Festival – Van 2001
New Music West – Van 2001
RockrGrl Music Conference – Seattle USA 2000 (GrrrlswithGuitars)

The Chan Centre 2000 (VAMS) / Coal Harbour Community Centre opening 2000

kickstART! Celebration of Disability Arts & Culture Round House 2001

Synaesthésia: 21st Century Vaudeville, Producer, Café Deux Soleil 96/97

Coalition for People with Disabilities – Roundhouse, Van 97
Reckless Abandon, Public Dreams – Roundhouse, Van 97
Under the Volcano Festival – North Vancouver, BC 98

Folk Life Music Festival – Seattle, Washington, USA 93
Friends of Clayoquot Sound – Vargis Island, Clayoquot BC 93/89
Blue Skies Music Festival – Clarendon, Ontario 92
Sunshine Coast Music Festival – Powell River, BC 88
Women and the Earth Conference – Robson Square Cinema, 93
Vancouver’s 1st Women’s Music Festival New Brighton Park 87
Fringe Festival, La Quena Fiesta, May Works – Van 89/88/87

Chan Centre, Railway Club, Glass Slipper, South Hill Candy Shop, Arts Club Backstage Lounge, WISE Hall, ANZA Club, Café Deux Soleil, The Talking Stick, The Savoy, Soft Rock Café, Vancouver Community College, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University …