Syrinx
Country of Origin: Canada Year: 2016 Running Time: 15:50 Format: Digital Output
Description: A short documentary commissioned for RVNG international's release of Syrinx "Tumblers from the Vault".
The musicians behind Syrinx were composer and keyboardist John Mills-Cockell, saxophonist Doug Pringle, and percussionist Alan Wells. All three were young veterans of the Toronto creative scene by the beginning of 1970. LSD played a supporting role in their artistic pursuits, but equal guidance also came from Mills-Cockell's studies at the University of Toronto and Royal Conservatory of Music, where he established an ad-hoc, DIY electronic music course in the school's basement.