Performing
Film Music Magic
There’s nothing quite like the magic of live music to film.
I curate and perform audio-visual projects inspired by people, place and the human experience.
I thrive on being the emotional backbone of every film. I take audiences on a memorable journey as they reflect on their own lives and think about what next steps they might take to capture their own memories.
I love sharing biographical stories about what inspired the projects I perform.
I’ve collaborated with filmmakers and musicians from Canada, U.S.A., South America, Europe and Scandinavia.
Upcoming Events
Ways We Can Work Together
Keynote Concerts at events focused on wellness, leadership and teamwork
Private Events
House Concerts
Festivals
Schools (elementary, high school, colleges and university)
Live Music for Yoga & Meditation
Live Projects
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An empowering hybrid concert experience, combining live music, inspirational speaking and cinema.
Discover manageable and meaningful ways to reignite your passion, face your fears, and find a better balance in your day-to-day life. Through songs, films, and stories, multi award-winning musician Rozalind MacPhail shares inspiring tips and tricks gathered from a lifetime of courage, resilience, rejection, preparation, persistence and luck. She explores new ways to combine image and sound in works that speak honestly of people, place, and the human experience.
Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 90 minutes
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A special live music, storytelling and cinema event featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning performer Rozalind MacPhail.
PUSH & PULL was largely inspired by MacPhail’s Digital Arts Residency in Twillingate through Unscripted Twillingate: Digital Arts Festival.
During this residency, she was exposed to the oral traditions of the Twillingate region through various individuals she was connecting with.
MacPhail observed how local history was being passed on from one generation to the next through storytelling. She felt a sense of urgency to document all of their stories so that these memories would never be forgotten by future generations.
Using the lens of a singer-songwriter, she puts their stories at the center of each song as she shares stories and performs live music to film.
Mode: In-person
Length: 90 minutes -
A special live music and cinema event featuring Newfoundland’s multi award-winning performer Rozalind MacPhail.
It tells a timeless story of self-discovery experienced by a young woman navigating her way through a vulnerable period in her life. Haunting, lonely, dreamy and deeply honest. The film adapts the Indigenous tradition of the vision quest and explores themes of attachment, loss and longing.
MacPhail’s music score features moody vocals, electrifying flute loops and driving electronics reminiscent of Pink Floyd, Mazzy Star and New Order.
Mode: In-person or Virtual Keynote Length: 30 minutes with optional 15 minute Q&A by Rozalind after the performance
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Flute Loops & Film takes audiences on a mesmerizing journey where live music, short film and storytelling weave together a tapestry about people, place and the human experience.
Rozalind’s original live music scores combine multi-layered sound looping, traditional songwriting, field recordings and loads of effected flute, MacPhail’s specialty.
Mode: In-person or Virtual
Length: 60 minutes with an option for a 15 minute Q&A with Rozalind -
MacPhail accompanies wellness classes with her uplifting original live music for flute and electronics. Experience heightened focus, energy. creativity and flow. Suitable for yoga and meditation classes of all levels, styles and lengths.
Mode: In-person or Virtual
Length: Flexible to suit every class and wellness retreat
Performance Highlights
TEDx St. John’s, National Flute Convention, Radio Sweden, CBC Radio, First Night Raleigh, Banff Centre, Live at Heart Sweden, Unscripted Twillingate Digital Arts Festival, NewFest, CB Nuit, Cameron Art Museum, Contact East, The Rooms, Cat's Cradle, Cat Fly Film Festival, Dawson City International Short Film Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Canadian Flute Convention, Cucalorus Festival, NPR, Ashland Independent Film Festival, Nickel Film Festival, Festival of Small Halls, Stephenville Winter Jazz Festival, St. John’s International Women's Film Festival, Gros Morne Summer Music, Sound Symposium and MusicNL’s Music Celebration Week.
The Gaze -
Live in Halifax
Of the film, Shona Thomson says “The Gaze” is an experimental film inspired by a 1947 civic film I found during an artist residency at Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina. Fascinated by reactions to the camera, I picked out every moment a citizen gazes directly at us.”
TEDx St. John’s
A live performance of two films
from my Head First DVD project,
”Dempster Highway” and “Victoria Street”
Technical Requirements
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Rozalind - vocals, flutes and electronics mixed through Rozalind’s laptop while video is being projected through an HDMI projector
Rozalind provides her own vocal microphone
No stage monitors required
Audio goes to the soundboard from Rozalind’s audio interface (2 balanced quarter-inch cables in stereo from an RME Babyface Pro)
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Rozalind + laptop located on stage left or right to avoid blocking the audience view of the visuals
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PA system with a soundboard that has a stereo input
AV technician receives 2 inputs (stereo mix from RME audio interface) to the soundboard
2 power cords
1 boom mic stand
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1 Projection Screen (preferably a 16 foot x 9 foot screen or whatever is the most appropriate size for the performance space)
Projector with HDMI capability
1 HDMI Cable from laptop feed from the stage to the projector
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Lighting should be able to be dimmed in the performance space so that the visuals can be seen clearly on the screen.
Spotlight lighting provided on Rozalind (if possible in venue)