Sylvie Smith’s life is woven through with music and visual imagery and with the fruits of their mutual force.

Smith splits her time between making music, selling music, or translating music and bands into pictures. Some hours Smith spends singing and lending rhythms and melodies to multiple bands (Evening Hymns, The Magic, The Pale Mornings). Other hours she passes at the legendary Toronto record store Soundscapes – both behind the register and as the designer and curator of the vivid, playful displays that decorate the store’s windows. Smith also dedicates precious hours to creating unique, signature gig posters for bands and musicians.

The Iceberg talked with Smith about sketching, the “tension” between innovation and expectation, and the trial and error of creating music and art – and art about music. …read more