Album Notes

SYLVI MACCORMAC is an artist who works with sound

People describe sylvi\'s voice as having a rich and moving nature. Weaving elements of soundscape with music and voice her work resonates along the lines of Canada and Ireland.

Reflecting on experiences through music: the mirror in the sea sylvi writes of spirit and soul, blues and bones, heart and home, intensely of passion, joy, pain, tragedy, and of loving Earth.

We hope you enjoy sylvi\'s music and consider her work regarding writing, performing, recording, and soundscape in the areas of programming, publishing or communications

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The Province
Published: Tuesday, July 22, 2008
SYLVI
Phoenix (Independent)
Sylvi MacCormac has been busy lately, reissuing all her sometimes bewildering catalogue on CD. Many of her recordings, such as Phoenix, were only available as cassettes and she soon branched out into spoken word and soundscapes. However, it was with Phoenix that Sylvi first was noticed. She has a husky folk voice not unlike Joni Mitchell\'s and the production by Barney Bentall and the Legendary Hearts\' guitarist is admirably sympathetic and atmospheric. MacCormac made more confident records later on but this 1996 recording was the start of something that has turned out to be challenging.
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-- Tom Harrison

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/etoday/story.html?id=81d2d297-16dd-4e8a-bae3-ccbcf88cd99b&p=2

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1996 on Cfox- \"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 own strong perspective.\" Tom Harrison, Cfox 99.3 - http://www.cfox.com/

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Composers Miriam Rainsford and sylvi macCormac enjoy conversation and a cup of tea with cats and radio static across the waves http://www.mstation.org/sylvi.php

Hear sylvi macCormac\'s music and interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsch @ Kalvos & Damian\'s New Music Bazaar
- http://kalvos.org/shows/kalx0604.ram - yo able dis !
- http://www.kalvos.org/shows-2005.html - text & image

sylvi macCormac received honourable mention at the International Musique Electroacoustique Bourges, France (1999) and produced Uts\'am / Witness CD (2004) including Buffy Sainte-Marie, Bruce Cockburn, Barry Truax and Squamish Eagle Song Dancers.

a multi-talented performer/composer of modern music, and the creator of WHEELS : an ongoing long-term recording project in which the voices of the disabled and the sounds of their work are immortalized in soundscapes, sylvi macCormac has extensive performance credits since the 1980\'s, including the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, New Music West , and Seattle\'s RockrGrl Music Conference in 2000.

Composing with voices, instruments and environmental recordings, sylvi macCormac\'s work can be found in the National Libraries of Canada and France and on line at
- www.deepwireless.ca - www.kalvos.org - www.thirdcoastfestival.org
- www.sonus.ca - cec.concordia.ca - www.utsam-witness.ca

and in the Phonetique of the IMEB @ La Bibliothèque Nationale de France
- www.IMEB.net @ www.BnF.fr

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.

www.myspace.com/sylvimacCormac