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)

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.

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

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

CONCERT: Sylvi MacCormac’s Coastal Chants

Where/When: Siwash Rock, Stanley Park, Coast Salish Territory, tomorrow, noon; Ironworks, 235 Alexander St., Mon., 7 p.m.

Why: This local singer is the sort of person who stops you in the street to play some harmonica and offer you a sonnet. With a firm grasp of spiritual music and lyrical twists and turns, she has honed her art over three albums and is now releasing Coastal Chants. MacCormac keeps good company with guests including Sexy Pierre (violin), Wendy Solloway (bass), Astrid (sax), Alyssa Serpa (guitar), cowboy poet Jeff Standfield, MC Betty Rebel 67 aka T’Uy Tanat / Cease Wyss and Pepé Danza.

Tickets: $10 at the door; others free

Stuart Derdeyn, The Province, Published: Friday, November 14, 2008

The E-List, Great things to do weekend with Stuart Derdeyn

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/etoday/story.html?id=70e893fa-7ef2-4749-a577-bf57ccaaf621

“I was stunned with her capture of the transcendance of nature through the lives of the people of the west coast. Sylvi has a very clear and soaring voice. Her songwriting is superb.” Ken Lunn, Blues Skies Music Festival

Coastal Chants Tape (1992) 10 trks w Blaine Dunaway & Pepé Danza (50:00)
CFox 99.9, Demo Listen Derby, Best Demo Presentation 1992

Horizon also appears on Uts’am / Witness CD (2004)

and in the film, Child of the Wind, the story of John Clarke (1995)

  Best Film on Climbing (1995) went to Canadian director and producer Bill Noble for his documentary Child of the Wind. Based on the wilderness adventure legacy of Canadian Coast Mountain explorer John Clarke, the film recounts Clarke’s many first ascents and solo traverses of the remote Coast Mountain terrain on foot and skiis. Bruce Cockburn and Sylvi supply the musical score.

http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/archives/festivals/film/fest95.asp
http://www.wilded.org/johnClarke.htm – Wilderness Education Program – WEP

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VFMF Soundscapes 1999-2002: Festival Quartet for Solitude (2:20:00) w voices, music and environmental sounds of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival  http://thefestival.bc.ca/music/soundscapes.php

Acoustic Ecology

Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS) has produced a showcase CD to highlight the talents of our members.

The CD features some very talented performers and demonstrates convincingly that disability is no barrier to musicianship. Our hope is that it will inspire others with significant physical disabilities to pursue their passions and search for ways to realize their dreams. This CD, Strait Goods, supports the featured artists by bringing their work to a wider audience, creating additional recording and live performance opportunities. We also hope that it will create opportunities for other VAMS members by challenging misconceptions about “disability.”

VANCOUVER ADAPTED MUSIC SOCIETY

Vancouver Adapted Music Society (VAMS) was founded in the late 1980s to support and promote musicians with physical disabilities in the Metro Vancouver area. Our programs involve people with a wide range of musical abilities, from first-timers to professionals.. VAMS works with accomplished and highly talented musicians, helping them pursue their artistic objectives while also finding an audience. We stage concerts and have created a showcase CD of our members’ finest work.

Meanwhile, VAMS provides facilities to enable people with significant physical disabilities to take their music to another level by improving their composition and playing skills. For those with no musical experience, this is a place to start. We also recognize the role music can play in improving quality of life. We run sessions for patients at Vancouver’s GF Strong rehab hospital, ranging from fun karaoke nights to workshops in a fully equipped music studio. Founded in 1988, VAMS has introduced hundreds of adults and children with disabilities to opportunities that provide an outlet for creativity and self-expression. To read more about VAMS, download our latest newsletter.

includes Why ? (4:34) from

Phoenix CD (1996)

Co-Produced with Colin Nairne – (54:57) recorded out back o th Royal Hudson at the Bone Yard, the workin’ studio of Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts  http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesB/bentall.html

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  Raven Shadows (2006) & Voices & Wheels (2000)
“macCormac’s two current releases are like her e-mails: They make sense but are nearly incomprehensible. So there is a struggle to understand, not impossible, as     there is an intelligence behind both CDs but a challenge nonetheless. Both start off   as straightforward singer-writer fare in which macCormac impresses as a Joni Mitchell types but each gives way to tapes of conversation that create a lengthy audioverité that might be listened to once. Combine that with found sound and other abstractions and you have curios dressed as art”  Tom Harrison, The Province, june 20 2006 – http://www.canada.com/theprovince

Canada is producing some of the most interesting and most talented female singer songwriters…here’s another one called Sylvi…intense, introspective, idealistic…coming from her ownstrong perspective.”  Tom Harrison, CFox 99.3 (1996) - http://www.cfox.com/

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SHAMELESS: The ART of Disability

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• Credits
• Awards
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Description

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

2006, 71 min 30 s

Directed by
Bonnie Sherr Klein

Produced by
Tracey Friesen

Production Agency
National Film Board of Canada

Links

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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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Voices on the Edge, Fifth Annual Festival of Women in New Music, features the International Women’s Electroacoustic Listening Room on March 11th, 2006 Cal State Fullerton, 2006 http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/8_2/Madsen.html includes Voices of a Place: Hildegard Westerkamp inside the Soundscape (1998) from Voices & Wheels CD (2000) Voices of a Place orginally printed with article, Conversing with Nature: Reflections on Hildegard Westerkamps Talking Rain – Soundscape Minimalism MW ..74 1999 – http://www.musicworks.ca

SFU 40 Celebrating Electroacoustic Music at Simon Fraser University 1965-2005 – http://www.SFU.ca – concert including Barry Truax, Jean Piché, Martin Gotfrit, Arne Eigenfeldt, Anne Holmes, Martin Bartlett, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Oswald, sylvi macCormac (Voices of a Place)

A Brief History of Electroacoustic Music at SFU The Electronic Music Studio at Simon Fraser University was founded by R. Murray Schafer when the university opened in 1965, the third such studio in Canada, after the University of Toronto and McGill. It was located in the basement of the SFU Theatre as part of the Centre for Communication and the Arts. Composers such as Schafer, Anthony Gnazzo, Peter Huse, Bruce Davis, Don Druick, Phillip Werren, David Keane and Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, among others worked there in the early days. Schafer moved the studio to the newly formed Department of Communication Studies in 1972 as the home of the World Soundscape Project, calling it the Sonic Research Studio and giving it a focus on environmental sound recordings. Barry Truax arrived in 1973 bringing an emphasis on computer music synthesis and composition and succeeded Schafer in 1975. With the creation of a contemporary music program a few years later, the studio in the SFU Theatre was revitalized and used for teaching, under the guidance of Martin Bartlett, Martin Gotfrit and Arne Eigenfeldt who added their interest in live electronics. Over the years, both studios have trained countless young composers and hosted international visitors, as well as the 1985 International Computer Music Conference. Numerous national and international awards, as well as published recordings, concert performances and broadcasts around the world have resulted from this activity. (from http://www.sfu.ca/~truax)

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Voices & Wheels CD (2000)

Trk 1. Voices of a Place: Hildegard Westerkamp inside the Soundscape, an audio portrait of the composer (6:39) 1999
Voices: HW & West Coast Canada Soundscape; Violin: Blaine Dunaway; words: HW from interview, improv & thesis “Listening & Soundmaking”; editing, recordings & composing: sylvi macCormac; Soundscape recordings: sylvi & WSP (world soundscape) project archives @ Simon Fraser University (1998)

printed with Waves of Kokoro (10:00) 1999 and article, Conversing with Nature: Reflections on Hildegard Westerkamp’s “Talking Rain” – Musicworks #74, Soundscape Minimalism - http://www.musicworks.ca

SFU 40 Celebrating Electroacoustic Music at Simon Fraser University 1965-2005 – http://www.SFU.ca – concert including Barry Truax, Jean Piché, Martin Gotfrit, Arne Eigenfeldt, Anne Holmes, Martin Bartlett, Hildegard Westerkamp, John Oswald, sylvi macCormac (Voices of a Place)

Ears: Electroacoustic Resource Site – MacCormac, Sylvi (1999). The author describes the work Talking Rain by Hildegard Westerkamp as a music as an intersection between sound and being, acoustics and ecology. This work mixed urban sounds and the sound of rain to demonstrate the possibility of living in ecological harmony. – http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk/spip.php?rubrique12

Voices of a Place included since 2005 in curriculum at University of Waterloo, Ontario, 20th-century Music, Opera, and World Music, Dr. Laura J. Gray - http://www.grebel.uwaterloo.ca/

Voices of a Place included since 2004 in curriculum of CREATIVE RADIO: New School University, New York, USA, Joan Schuman - http://www.dialnsa.edu

Voices of a Place and Penny: a Process (3:00) included since 2002 in curriculum at SFU, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada, Barry Truax – www.SFU.ca -

Ear of the Sea International Seascapes Collection 1996-2001 – PL 79, FINLAND – 00024, Yleisradio, Helsinki

En red O 2000. Electric Songs – Sonoscop.Orquesta del Caos – http://ocaos.cccb.org/ - Montalegre, 5. 08001 Barcelona. Spain

EuCuE – serie XIX series 2000-2001 Université Concordia, Quebec – http://cec.concordia.ca

View from the Front 1999 annual showcase of female musicians and composers - http://www.front.bc.ca

Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers, Univ of North Texas, 1999 http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/wea2/index.htm

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De Constructing Abuse  (12:30) 2004
http://www.deepwireless.ca – http://www.cbc.ca/outfront – Now in its third year, New Adventures in Sound Art is again producing the commission/residency opportunity as part of Deep Wireless, co-produced with CBC Radio’s “Out Front” and Charles Street Video. 2004 Deep Wireless artists are Marilyn Lerner, sylvi macCormac, Marion van der Zon and Richard Windeyer, with peices broadcast on CBC Radio from May 24-27 and spatialized versions presented on May 28th & 29th as part of the “Radio Theatre” performances at the Latvian House.

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DEEP WIRELESS CD I 2004 includes railway lines : trains of thought (7:5o) Witness: Round journey (7:oo xrpt) does this SOUND like me ? (1:oo:oo) online http://www.soundtravels.ca

http://www.NAISA.ca/DeepWireless – http://www.CBC.ca/OutFront
Now in its third year, New Adventures in Sound Art is again producing the commission/residency opportunity as part of Deep Wireless, co-produced with CBC Radio’s “Out Front” and Charles Street Video. 2004 Deep Wireless artists are Marilyn Lerner, sylvi macCormac, Marion van der Zon and Richard Windeyer, with peices broadcast on CBC Radio from May 24-27 and spatialized versions presented on May 28th & 29th as part of the “Radio Theatre” performances at the Latvian House.De Constructing Abuse (12:30) by sylvi macCormac appears on Raven Shadows CD (2006)DEEP WIRELESS CD I (2004) includes Witness: Round Journey (xrpt) & Railway Lines : Trains of Thought (7:5o) which also appears on line at

http://www.thirdcoastfestival.org/library/search?q=sylvi+macCormac
http://www.ThirdCoastFestival.org/behind_scenes_DeepWireless.asp

Radio Art from Canada – sylvi macCormac on Railway Lines: Trains of Thought – Railway Lines: Trains of Thought stretches the Boundaries of Radio by collaging sound, story and song in an aural journey. This composition strives to extend the familiar structures of radio and music, by transforming sound sources with signal processing and combining them in creative ways, while inviting the listener into an imaginary journey along metaphoric Railway Lines. A child of Irish Immigrants who grew up on the West Coast of Canada, though no longer able to walk or play an instrument because of Multiple Sclerosis, I am “still brave” because of my community and because Electroacoustic Soundscape composition and “New and Improved” Radio provides me access to transcend Dis-Ability and continue to explore Fields of Sound. The Railway has both transported and run over many lives, both first nations and immigrants, in its quest for expansion and development. The Railway, while being sold out from under our feet, is still symbolic of various lines (commodities/communication/cultures) that break us apart and vibrant lines that bind us together as community in the unique and changing cultural horizon that is Canada.

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http://www.CBC.ca/insite/SOUNDS_LIKE_CANADA/2003/6/25.html

In a series on accessibility we spoke to Sylvi MacCormac. She’s a soundscape artist and musician who’s trying to break down some of those barriers through her work. She’s created the Wheels Project. That’s a collection of soundscapes and musical compositions featuring the voices of people with disabilities. http://www.vams.org

WATER RUSHIN’ THROUGH MY BRAIN Duration: 00:04:28 Work Name: WATER RUSHIN’ THROUGH MY BRAIN/ MacCORMAC

CANADA’s FAVOURITE SONG – Last week we asked you tell us about your favourite Canadian song. We’ll read some special letters and play some special Canadian music. THE HOCKEY SONG Duration: 00:02:09 Work Name: THE HOCKEY SONG/CONNORS, STOMPIN’ TOM

Host, St-Laurent, Bernard – Exec Producer, Sandell, Neil – Studio Producer, Parise, Michelle – Studio Tech, Hoffman, Kent

exerpted from www site of Sounds Like Canada

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

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

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Leif Brush’s soundsworks perspective by macCormac / sylvi, 2001 & 2003 http://www.freetoears.net/

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EARS : Electroacoustic Resource Site

http://www.ears.dmu.ac.uk/spip.php?rubrique12

Acoustic Ecology
[Disciplines of Study [DoS]  >  Acoustic Communication >  Soundscape Studies]

Ecology is the study of the relationship between individuals and communities and their environment. Acoustic or soundscape ecology is thus the study of the effects of the acoustic environment, or soundscape, on the physical responses or behavioural characteristics of those living within it. Its particular aim is to draw attention to imbalances which may have unhealthy or inimical effects. (Source: Barry Truax – Handbook for Acoustic Ecology CD-ROM Edition. Cambridge Street Publishing, 1999 – CSR-CDR 9901)

See also:
Acoustic Communication, Soundscape Studies

Bibliography includes:

MACCORMAC, Sylvi (1999). Reflections on Hildegard Westerkamp’s Talking Rain, Musicworks, No 74. Toronto: Music Gallery: 9-13. (English)

Keyword(s): Acoustic Ecology ,  Soundwalk ,  Soundscape Composition ,  Acoustics

Abstract:

The author describes the work Talking Rain by Hildegard Westerkamp as a music as an intersection between sound and being, acoustics and ecology. This work mixed urban sounds and the sound of rain to demonstrate the possibility of living in ecological harmony.

About EARS – About the ElectroAcoustic Resource Site project

The ElectroAcoustic Resource Site (EARS) project has been established to provide resources for those wishing to conduct research in the area of electroacoustic music studies. EARS will take the form of a structured Internet portal supported by extensive bibliographical tools. To aid the greater understanding of the opportunities offered by these radical forms of sound organisation, as well as their cultural impact, the project will cite (or link directly to) texts, titles, abstracts, images, audio and audio-visual files, and other relevant formats. The project will strive to conceive of electroacoustic music in its widest possible sense, acknowledge the interdisciplinary nature of the field, and aspire to the greatest possible breadth and inclusiveness.

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2004 – CREATIVE RADIO: Documentary, Fiction, Story. Instructor:Joan Schuman, New School Univ, Dept of Journalism http://www.dialnsa.edu – curriculum includes Voices of a Place : Hildegard Westerkamp inside the Soundscape (1998) from Soundscape Minimalism : Music Works #74 1999 www.musicworks.ca

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2004 – Rivershed Society of British Columbia, Sustainable Living Leadership Program develops young leaders educating them in the principles and theories of sustainable living and community stewardship. “To create an enduring society, we need a system of commerce and production where each and every act is inherently sustainable and restorative … ” Paul Hawken – documentary video includes 100 MPH from Phoenix – http://www.rivershed.com/

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2004 – Sound for Walking Woman, a Video by Margaret Dragu & Lorna Boschman that documents an all-day community participation performance. Beginning and ending on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery, a group of Vancouver and Richmond citizens put on their walking shoes and dance, walk, and celebrate the pedestrian and bus lifestyle. Walking Woman = dance + live music + parade + tour + ecology + community + celebration and encourages the viewer to ask questions about the nature and limits of public art, spectacle, performance, community, and inclusion. Inspired by the visual art by Michael Snow bearing the same name, Walking Woman shows community art in action and is simply a whole lot of fun. http://www.vtape.org

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Canadian Music Centre – Electricities / Électricités CD 2003 – http://www.musiccentre.ca – including ” the gently haunting ambience of Sylvi MacCormac’s ‘penny: a process’ … ” Electricities/Électricités’ offers 37 new windows in a brief tour into the extraordinarily rich and divers history, geography and currents of Canadian electroacoustic music drawn from the huge catalogue of the Canadian Music Centre’s Distribution Service. ‘Electricities / Électricités’ travels through time, from Hugh LeCaine’s 1957 pioneering and artful experiments with the world’s first ‘Sackbut’ synthesizer on ‘The Burning Deck’ and Ann Southam’s sparse and elegant ‘Reprieve’ from 1979, to the cutting edge and ground breaking contemporary works of Robert Normandeau and Louis Dufort.”

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Co-Op Radio: Changing Times (42:30) 2002 with Radio Archives Interviews Field Recordings

w Christopher Clapper homeless on th streets & Buffy Sainte-Marie bkwrds

(NOT for SALE) Co-op Radio Sound Art Vol II – http://www.coopradio.org

does this SOUND like me ? w th voices of 21 artists w dis abilities (1:00:00) 2001 composed for KickstART! Society for Disability Arts & Culture http://www.s4dac.org Outside the Lines: self portaits by artists with disabilities – Pendulum Gallery 2001 KickstART! : Celebration of Disability Arts & Culture – Roundhouse 2001 CBC AM http://www.cbc.ca/SoundslikeCanada (June 25/July 28) 2003 5th WHEEL see http://www.reachdisability.org/vams/vams_wheels.html

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Witness: Round Journey (20:00) 2000  http://www.utsam-witness.ca Huy chewx a / Thank you for the honour and for listening. This is my attempt at an expression of the essence of Uts’am / Witness through sound. “We have never stopped being nature” (Slhalnãy Sp’ãkwus Nancy Bleck ). We will never stop being nature unless nature itself ceases to exist. We are voices of the city, country, forest and wilderness.

Soundscape composed with Squamish Spirit Song, Journey Song and Honour Song as sung by Telálsemkin Siyám (Chief Bill Williams), Kwalucton, William Nahanee, Aaron Nelson-Moody et al. Wilderness Soundscapes and Voices were recorded around the Elaho River, the Carnegie & Roundhouse Commmunity Centres Vancouver BC Canada 97-99. Voices: Telálsemkin Siyám, Nancy Bleck Slhalnãy Sp’ãkwus, John Clarke Xwexwsélkn , Amir Ali Alibhai, Paul Hundal, Joan, Drew Leetham, William Nahanee, Aaron Nelson-Moody, Shel Neufeld, a young english boy, Marie Preissl, Bob Turner, Ceise Wyss and a young squamish girl.

Thanks also to http://www.SFU.ca/~Truax for guidance and http://www.richmondsounddesign.com for the Audio Box. This is a stereo mix of an octophonic work composed w th Audio Box @ SFU 2000. CD will be available with proceeds to http://www.utsam-witness.ca & http://www.wepbc.ca

Uts’am & Cedar Woman Exhibition w Fabric Installation by Andrea Zimmer, RoundHouse 2001 Audio Engineering Society ,Vancouver Chapter, Landmark 2001 – Witness: Round Journey & Talk “Field o Sound: is Stochastic a Dirty Word ? Soundscape Composition w the Audio Box” LEAPS (Live Electronic Arts Performance Series) Van Pro Musica w photos in slow dissolve by John Clarke Xwexwsélkn 2000 Emily Carr IAD, Faculty presentation of Witness: Round Journey with the photography of Nancy Bleck Slhalnãy Sp’ãkwus 2000

2004 Deep Wireless I CD – Round Journey (7:10 xcrpt) with Railway Lines: Trains of Thought – http://www.deepwireless.ca

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Voices and Wheels CD 2000 ~ 9 tracks – to hear compositions (while quantities last) : http://SONUS.CA

1. Voices of a Place: Hildegard Westerkamp inside the Soundscape, an audio portrait of the composer (6:39) 1999

voices: HW & West Coast Canada Soundscape; violin: Blaine Dunaway; words: HW from interview, improv & thesis “Listening & Soundmaking”; editing, recordings & composing: sylvi mC2

Soundscape recordings: sylvi & World Soundscape Project archives @ Simon Fraser University (1998) printed with article, Conversing with Nature: Reflections on Hildegard Westerkamp’s “Talking Rain” – Soundscape Minimalism MW #74 – http://www.musicworks.ca

Voices of a Place presented 2004 in CREATIVE RADIO: New School Univ http://www.dialnsa.edu Ear of the Sea International Seascapes Collection 1996-2001 – PL 79, FINLAND – 00024, Yleisradio, Helsinki En red O 2000. Electric Songs – Sonoscop.Orquesta del Caos – http://ocaos.cccb.org/ – Montalegre, 5. 08001 Barcelona. Spain EuCuE – serie XIX series 2000-2001 Université Concordia, Quebec – http://cec.concordia.ca View from the Front annual showcase of female musicians and composers – 1999 http://www.front.bc.ca Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers, Univ of North Texas, 1999 http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/wea2/index.htm

2. Spirit Wheels : Journey – part 1 of Puppet Opera in 3 parts (3:06) WHEEL #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) on Presence II 2000 – http://cec.concordia.ca – performed at Sonic Boom 1999

3. Carving Canoes : For the Wild (4:07) 1999 - 35 mm Film with Photos by John Clarke 

words, music, voice & guitar: sylvi macCormac; violins: Blaine Dunaway voices: Water & Ravens @ Simms Creek, Elaho, BC composer : sylvi macCormac printed on GrrrlswithGuitars Vol 1 - http://www.grrrlswithguitars.com

4. Little Buddhas Dance : Living with Maud (5:50) 1997
words, music, voice, guitar: sylvi macCormac; violin, viola & drum: Blaine Dunaway recordings & engineering: Blaine Dunaway @ Alpha Whizz Studios, Roberts Creek, Sechelt BC, February 1998

5. 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 – awarded Honourable Mention @ Synthése 1999 – 29e Festival International des Musiques et Creations Electroniques, Bourges, France, June 6, 1999 – http://www.imeb.net 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 / LEAPS Van Pro Musica 1999

6. Railway Lines : Trains of Thought (7:50) 1998 Royal Hudson and 1888 Steam Engine from World Soundscape Project Archives(SFU); Antique Miniature Train recorded @ The Railway Club (Vancouver Canada)
voices: Gordon Cobb & sylvi;
guitar, song/story lines, recordings & composing: sylvi macCormac
A Canadian story about coming home along poetic-aural-historic Railway Lines printed – Deep Wireless CD I 2004 – http://www.deepwireless.ca

7. 8 Directions (8:14) 2002 stereo mix of octophonic composition composed w the Matrix / Audio Box

congas: Albert St Albert
violin: Andrea Dodwell
flute: Christa Lynn
bazouki: Costas Partasides
marimba & gong: sylvi
penny whistle & bagpipe: Matt Welch
birds, rain & thunder: World Soundscape Project archives @ SFU; the rain and thunder were recorded in Italy, the birds in France most of the instruments were recorded in or near the Slendro Gong of the Gamelan, Kaya Madu Sari (venerable essence of honey) @ SFU, Canada; except for WSP
recording & composing: sylvi – performed with musicians @ SFU 2000 and SONIC BOOM 2002

8. Penny : a process (3:07) 1998

voice & penny whistle: Philip Murphy;
words, recording & composing: sylvi a Choir of Voices ? a Flocking of Birds ? an Immense Gong ? Nõ ?
This piece was created with signal processing transforming the source sounds of a penny whistle and the voice of Philip Murphy speaking words from Composition. on Presence III – http://cec.concordia.ca and 2003 Electricities / Électricités http://www.musiccentre.ca – Performed at Sonic Boom 2001

9. De: composing (6:48) 1999

voices: sylvi (de composing),
ship bell; jay hirabayashi (O from Waves o Kokoro)

With thanks to Truax Schafer Westerkamp o the World Soundscape Project @ SFU for guidance & inspiration, to those who gave me the great joy of composing with their voices, to Gordon for harmonic memories, to Geoff & S4DAC for being wheel artists & friends, to Blaine for violin extraordinaire, to my family and friends, to Philip for sharing th love o Gaelic lore & to th Railway Club for th gift of recording th little train

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Echoes o Home: All the Way from Ireland 2000 (18:30) 

 a portrait of a family with voices (spoken&sung),  music, cat purring, clock ticking, train sounds

6  min xcprt presented @ Festival Synthèse 2003, Bourges France, ‘la Mère, le Père’  http://www.IMEB.net

on Raven Shadows CD (2006)

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th Rose & th Railway: of Yeats & Nõ Being & Blooming on Line 1999

WB Yeats, the Japanese Nõ Theatre, Maud Gonne and Being in Relationship to Language Audio Tracks include Aural Shadows, 8 Directions & Railway Lines: Trains o Thought

Vancouver New Music Festival 2001 *e-lounge* http://www.newmusic.org/

E-Book/Nõ Book to be online 2009 / 2010 (tba)

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Grrrls with Guitars Compilation CD Vol 1 1999

Carving Canoes : For the Wild : 35 mm Film with Photos by John Clarke (4:07) 1999 - track 12
words, music, voice & guitar: sylvi macCormac;
voices: Water & Ravens @ Simms Creek, Elaho, BC
violins: Blaine Dunaway, composer : sylvi macCormac

http://www.GrrrlswithGuitars.com - http://www.myspace.com/grrrlswithguitars

Phoenix : 10 trks w Colin Nairne – (54:57) 1996

CD recorded out back o th Royal Hudson at the Bone Yard, the workin’ studio of Barney Bentall & the Legendary Hearts http://www.canoe.ca/JamMusicPopEncycloPagesB/bentall.html

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Colour Compassion 1996 (6:00) music/filmdance/art 35mm Produced by Sylvi with Ted Herman with assistance of Bravo! FACT

Directer: Douglas Thompson, Art Direction & Sculpture: Nicole Dextras, Dancer/Choreography: Barbara Bourget, Director of Photography: Adam Sliwinski, Production Design: Jamie Robbins, Writer: sylvi macCormac http://www.dextrasdesigns.com * http://www.directordouglas.com * http://www.kokoro.ca

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Child of theWind 1995 (23:00) film/documentary 35mm The story of John Clarke, coast mountain explorer and wilderness educator with music by Bruce Cockburn and Sylvi Director: Bill Noble, Awarded: Banff Mountain Film Festival Best Documentary http://www.banffmountainfestivals.ca/festivals/film/

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Coastal Chants: 10 trks w Blaine Dunaway & Pepé Danza – (50:00) 1992 CFox 99.9, Demo Listen Derby, Best Demo Presentation 1992 w l

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

and in the film, Child of the Wind, the story of John Clarke (1995)

Best Film on Climbing (1995) went to Canadian director and producer Bill Noble for his documentary Child of the Wind. Based on the wilderness adventure legacy of Canadian Coast Mountain explorer John Clarke, the film recounts Clarke’s many first ascents and solo traverses of the remote Coast Mountain terrain on foot and skiis. Bruce Cockburn and Sylvi supply the musical score.

http://www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/archives/festivals/film/fest95.asp
http://www.wilded.org/johnClarke.htm - Wilderness Education Program – WEP

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W.A.T.E.R.S. Women and the Environment Radio Series 1996
A radio series distributed internationally and broadcast on Vancouver Co-op Radio 102.7FM Theme Music: Sylvi’s song Coastal Chant from Coastal Chants 1992 – http://www.coopradio.org

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The Shape Shifter 1992 Spirit Song Theatre production
Writer: Ronnie Way, including music by Paul Horn and Sylvi

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Song for Carmanagh 1990 by Tippy Agogo on Sounds of Our Voices WC 2 Compilation for Western Canada Wilderness Committee with Tippy Agogo, Jenny Allen, and John Mann (Spirit of the West)

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Little Buddhas Dance 2005 –  2nd Edition - EPoetry - online

Little Buddhas Dance 1997/98 - 1st Edition – Poetry – hand bound booklet