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Frisky

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Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Frisky” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Frisky” by Sonic Twist®

Because Sonic Twist’s® “Unity” is completely comprised of music composed in the moment, the pieces have been named after they were created, not before. The name of each piece is based on the kinds of associations the music conjures up, and agreed on by singer Judi Silvano” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Judi Silvano” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Judi Silvano, guitarist Bruce Arnold , and videographer Michal Shapiro.” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Michal Shapiro , after careful listening. The whimsical energy expressed by “Frisky” gave the track its name. How better than a cat, then, to provide a visual embodiment? Michal Shapiro sent out an open call to friends and cat lovers, and with the footage that was sent, created “Frisky” the video. It’s a tribute to the funnier side of felines; they are not always graceful and mysterious! Here their legendary curiosity and sense of play are on full display. (Their owners get into the show on occasion – but only the random hand or foot.) Judi Silvano keeps her vocals lighthearted and Bruce Arnold plays guitar lines that jump and skitter. Bring on the Frisky fun and fluff –bring on the cats!

Video for “Frisky,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Shamans Plane

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Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Shamans Plane” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Shamans Plane” by Sonic Twist®

The eerie whooping and vocal gestures of singer Judi Silvano” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Judi Silvano open Sonic Twist’s® video “Shaman’s Plane.” Her voice is doubled and split into different times and timbres, suggesting a shaman’s chant summoning forth spirits of earth and sky. Bruce Arnold artfully controls the powerful loop generated between SuperCollider and his Delay Llama processor on electric guitar. This produces a wide variety of evocative sounds, from a subterranean rumble to raindrops in a meadow. A tableau of brilliantly colored images takes the viewer on a hallucinatory journey, until Videographer Michal Shapiro.” rel=”noopener” target=”_blank”>Michal Shapiro returns us with actual performance footage of Sonic Twist® as they created the music in real time; reminding us that we are still on earth and off the “Shaman’s Plane!”

Video for “Shamans Plane,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Chrysalis

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Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Chrysalis” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Chrysalis” by Sonic Twist®

Sonic Twist’s® instrumental video “Chrysalis” is a weird combination of science fiction and nature documentary imagery. It opens with Bruce Arnold using his guitar processing to chitter and tweet, evoking the instinctive struggles of something small to break out of its egg- or its shell. His guitar then adds mysterious, tremolo chords enforcing the sense of suspense and wonder. Sonic Twist’s ® videographer Michal Shapiro. brought the “Chrysalis” to life through a hand dance with visuals that can be interpreted as insectile, sub-marine or microscopic; case in point, the confounding survivalist nonpareil, the Tardigrade.

Video for “Chrysalis,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Home Free

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Home Free” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Home Free” by Sonic Twist®

In “Home Free,” Sonic Twist® (the duo of Bruce Arnold , guitar and Judi Silvano, voice) summons up a restful afternoon, surrounded by the simple things that make Home our place of refuge and relaxation. Judi Silvano sings a sweet melodic line as Bruce Arnold intuits just the right chords to take it into reverie territory. In the video, sunlight skims off windchimes, shimmers on the leaves of a house plant, and filters placidly through a kitchen window. The languid music of Sonic Twist® caresses the ear like a lullaby, and Bruce Arnold’s final major chord most emphatically takes us Home Free.

Video for “Home Free,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Ha

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Ha” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Ha” by Sonic Twist®

From the minute it begins, Sonic Twist’s® “HA” takes the listener into a fantasy game of hide and seek, or perhaps a Halloween gremlin hunt! Vocalist Judi Silvano growls and snickers impishly, while Bruce Arnold’s highly processed guitar summons up alternately marching and running footsteps, sometimes on dry land, sometimes through rainy terrain. In attempting to put a visual to such a bizarre landscape, videographer Michal Shapiro took the actual impromptu performance and mimicked the delay singer Judi Silvano was using (and which is reflected in Bruce Arnold’s guitar processing as well) by creating a secondary semi opaque layer a microsecond apart. The musical action runs in starts and finishes with a slower and slower echoing tempo. Has the gremlin been run to ground, or escaped into the mist?

Video for “Ha,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Flutterby

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Flutterby” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Flutterby” by Sonic Twist®

Sonic Twist’s® playful video “Flutterby” musically evokes the many circuitous patterns of butterflies in flight —something vocalist Judi Silvano’s has long appreciated as she gardens.The video uses the motifs of these beautiful insects as Judi Silvano and guitarist Bruce Arnold (the duo of Sonic Twist®) spontaneously compose some whimsical music in front of a green screen. The use of this device freed up videographer Michal Shapiro. to experiment with both the background and the foreground of the video.The backgrounds are all shots of butterflies, some highlighting the beauty of their wings. Others are harder to identify; the most intriguing and architectural of these are microscopic magnifications of wings and antennae. The foreground was much more challenging as Michal Shapiro had to use multiple layers and inversions of the images of the musicians, to achieve deceptively light-hearted, multi-layered effects. But the result is a happy, fun loving outing, like a walk in a late Spring meadow.

Video for “Flutterby,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Hovercraft

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Hovercraft” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Hovercraft” by Sonic Twist®

Sonic Twist’s® video “Hovercraft” demonstrates the visual similarities between the arteries of traffic and the arteries that keep us alive. Bruce Arnold’s Guitar sound seems to be calling from faraway—perhaps beaming the music down from a drone? Singer Judi Silvano’s voice is likewise hushed and whispery, as if half heard from another room. When casting about for the proper images for the video, editor Michal Shapiro came across terrific aerial footage of intersections and highways shot from far above, which lent the perfect visual to the sense of hovering movement implied by Sonic Twist’s® music. In “Hovercraft” the micro and macro worlds exist together, as cars and trucks become platelets, and a traffic circle takes the place of a beating heart!

Video for “Hovercraft,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Lacewing

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Lacewing” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Lacewing” by Sonic Twist®

The guitar figure played by Bruce Arnold that opens Sonic Twist’s® video “Lacewing” summons up the flight of a tiny winged creature and vocalist Judi Silvano’s entrance continues this delicate reference. For videographer Michal Shapiro, it recalls a fond childhood memory of evening summers in the country, when after chasing lightning bugs, she would sometimes see diminutive Lacewings perched on window screens. These nocturnal insects can be seen from dusk to dawn, as they feast on flower nectar and pollen. Their pale green translucent wings and copper eyes give them an especially fragile beauty. The video “Lacewing” pays homage to both lace and lacewings with motifs of classic embroidered lace to depict clouds, forests, flowers and fields in sunlight that wanes into the night. The music by guitarist Bruce Arnold and vocalist Judi Silvano creates the energy of that day, and ends with a gentle goodnight diminuendo.”

Video for “Lacewing,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Dryads

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “Dryads” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Dryads” by Sonic Twist®

The spirits that inhabit trees awaken in the Sonic Twist® video “Dryads.” Opening with Bruce Arnold’s guitar shimmering like wind in the forest, the video finds dancer Hilary Brown (the Dryad) in her leafy home and emerging from its trunk. Vocalist Judi Silvano sounds the echoing calls of other Dryads to awaken. At first almost transparent, the Dryad becomes more corporeal as the video progresses, and the spirits rise into the treetops, where the sun in the high branches becomes hallucinatory and the Dryads celebrate. In a change of pace, guitarist Bruce Arnold and Singer Judi Silvano conjure a sudden gust of wind; dancer Hilary Brown is tossed about, but then, drawing strength from the leaves, the Dryad subdues the activity and sinks back into her tree form. “Dryads” is a haunting video with an animist heart.

Video for “Dryads,” from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Bruces Boogie

Below you will find audio and video from the Sonic Twist® release entitled “I Saw That” The video for this composition was created by Michal Shapiro.

“Bruce’s Boogie” by Sonic Twist®

“Bruce’s Boogie” is Sonic Twist® at its funkiest and most playful. Named after one of music’s dancingest grooves, (and guitarist Bruce Arnold , of course) the music struts and bounces on a clavinet-like sound, with singer Judi Silvano dropping in to add some vocal “spicy noodles!” Inspired by the music, dancer Hilary Brown wore a very stylized striped shirt – a nod to the legendary Lockers, perhaps? Needless to say, the shirt supplied all kinds of inspirations, from gestures to video motifs, and also added an element of whimsey that was perfect for the music. In putting the video together, videographer Michal Shapiro. noted the way that the stripes expanded and contracted with Hilary Brown’s undulating torso, creating an almost-moiré effect. Taking her cue from that, Michal Shapiro created a slowly moving horizontal stripe for a background, that echoed and interacted with Hilary Brown’s movements. Add some super-saturated colors with layered dancing and the effect of “Bruce’s Boogie” is part Op Art, part Psychedelia, and all Funk.

Video for “Bruce’s Boogie,” the 4th Track from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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