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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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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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I Saw That

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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.

“I Saw That” by Sonic Twist®

Vocalist Judi Silvano has a way with words, and she mines her own subconscious to express them in her work with guitarist Bruce Arnold . In Sonic Twist’s® “I Saw That” she starts off in a whisper, with Bruce Arnold joining in only as a pulse point, and giving her free rein to wander wherever she will. And wander she does; free-associating through evocative inner dialogues. When it came time to create a video for the piece, videographer Michal Shapiro. felt strongly that the transitions from one fleeting idea to another conjured up the thought processes of –perhaps a dog? As fate would have it, Georgia the miniature dachshund was the perfect subject, and her owner, artist Joshua Abelow was willing to follow her around over the course of several days and donate the footage. Remarkably, Georgia’s high metabolism was totally in sync with Bruce Arnold’s guitar pulsations – even her tail wagged in time! The final wonderful coincidence was Georgia’s excursion over to the neighboring rural cemetery, perfectly visualizing Judi ‘s extemporaneous rumination on mortality: “Why do we have to stop—why can’t we go on like this some more?” This is a charming video featuring the adorable mini-dachshund Georgia. She is sadly is no longer with us. But Sonic Twist’s® “I Saw That” is a fine memento of this affectionate, whimsical creature.

Video for “I Saw That,” the 3rd Track from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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Confabulation

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

“Confabulation” by Sonic Twist®

Sonic Twist’s® video of “Confabulation” is like an abstract Twilight Zone episode. The video is plainly disturbing as it shows how a person who is troubled can wink in and out of realities. The dancer Maria Mitchell reacted to the eerie music of Sonic Twist® (Bruce Arnold , guitar and vocalist Judi Silvano) by limiting her movements, like a frightened child. The use of mirror images and positive/negative visuals enhances the nightmarish quality of her every move. Judi Silvano and Bruce Arnold wink in and out of the video like spirits, and Maria Mitchell seems as if she is torn in two; sometimes she is her own Siamese twin, sometimes she is no more than two hands. Musically the same is true; it functions as the inner voice in conflict.

Video for “Confabulation,” the 14th Track from Sonic Twist’s® CD “Unity.”

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