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Kristi Scarvelis is a multidisciplinary creative director, filmmaker, and musician based in New York City.

CREATIVE DIRECTION

Music

Singer/Musician of Auramics,
6th Floor Orchestra,
& soundtrack composer

Film

Film & Commercials, Animation, Director, Creative Director, Art Direction/Production Design, & Styling

AGENCY PRINT & DIGITAL

Creative Direction/Art Direction & Graphic Design

Product Design & Fashion

Apparel, Accessories, Product Design,
Trend, Concept, & Styling

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MUSIC

"Domino" - Auramics - Album Cover

6th Floor Orchestra - Album Cover

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<a href="http://auramics.bandcamp.com/track/founders-of-time">Founders of Time by Auramics</a>

<a href="http://6thfloororchestra.bandcamp.com/album/dama-satanica-cuerdas-de-bruja">Dama Satanica / Cuerdas de Bruja by 6th Floor Orchestra</a>

SEE

Dagger Cordis

Hear our Auramics song "Dagger Cordis" in the horror film "Trauma"

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2023-04-19: Thank you Sein Peaks and @levoyagedepenelope for featuring Auramics in the “The Other Side of Darkness Artists Playlist” on Spotify today!

2022-03-12: Thank you Sein Peaks for featuring Auramics in “The Other Side of Darkness” again in the incredibly trippy Episode 16 03/12/2022 @ 24:45 with our music in Jerry’s FM radio.

2022-02-03: Thanks to Quentin for spinning our @Auramics song “Karmic” on the horror themed midnight radio show on @4zzzradio 102.1 FM in Brisbane, Australia from 12-2am. Very kind to think of us so much lately, friends!

01-14-2022: Aw, thank you 4ZZZ Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM for more Auramics love this week featuring our song "Founders of Time" on your Friday show today 1/14, in Brisbane, Australia. Very kind. xx

12-31-2021: Thanks to the lovely Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM & 4ZZZ in Brisbane, Australia for featuring Auramics “Domino” again on your New Years Eve show on 12/31. Nice surprise to close out the year. x

12-16-2021: Thank you Quentin on 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM Brisbane, Australia for playing Auramics “Vena Cava” on the lovely I SPY show on 12/16.

12-03-2021: Thank you 4ZZZ Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM Brisbane, Australia for playing Auramics “Domino” on your lovely show on 12/3.

08-20-2021: Always a lovely surprise. Thank you dear Quentin Ellison for playing “Vena Cava” on 8/20 4ZZZ Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM Brisbane, Australia, as the closing track to your lovely show. Our first ever Auramics song… I wrote those lyrics way back when when I was living in the east village, before we went to our space to assemble anything. Feels like another time.

06-29-2021: The horror short film Trauma featuring our Auramics track "Dagger Cordis" (2:11) is now on YouTube. Film directed by Cannibal Troll Film David K. Ginn. Script written by Nathaniel Bobowski and David K. Ginn. Starring Corrine Paulson, Colleen Slattery. Filmed in Brooklyn, NY and premiered at Anthology Film Archives. Thanks again for thinking of us for your thriller.

06-25-2021: Huge thanks to Sein Peaks for featuring Auramics today, 6/25, as the musical guest on the glorious, new “The Other Side of Darkness” podcast (where Seinfeld & Twin Peaks collide). Ep. #4 w/ song ‘Founders of Time’ & Seinfeld cast member...Melanie Smith interviewed! (Jerry's girlfriend "Rachel" on the show).

04-23-2021: Huge thanks to FilmÓptico - International Visual Art and Film Festival & Viridiana TV, for selecting our Auramics music video "Founders of Time" I directed, as a Nominee, in the Video Art category. Screening online from today, 4/23, until 5/2. Check out all the films at the link below. Really honored to be featured in 9 film festivals for this film.

03-15-2021: Many thanks to lovely NeoClassic Film Festival for awarding our Auramics song "Founders of Time" as the "Quarter-Finalist", third place, in the music/soundtrack for film category today! Thanks for thinking of us for your festival! xx

03-09-2021: Thank you, Markey Funk for including Auramics "Dagger Cordis" in this very lovely and thoughtful mix!

03-09-2021: Thanks to the lovely “Neoclassic Multimedia Fest” film festival 2021 x Tops Productions Ptolemaida in Greece for selecting Auramics – “Founders of Time” for the “Song” (original song/soundtrack) category happening on March 15. xx

02.04.2021: ❤️ Shindig! Magazine... the latest! Thank you so much for the incredibly lovely review of our 6th Floor Orchestra 7” record in our favorite UK magazine, Camilla Aisa Jon Mills, Shindig! #111 Issue January 2021.❤️❤️ “Dama Satanica / Cuerdas de Bruja”. It’s serendipitous because I’ve been seeing 11:11 almost daily leading up to it and I was watching “Haxan” when I was brainstorming visuals for our release! I also absolutely loved the articles about Suzanne Ciani - Diva of the Diode @sevwave, Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson with a nice write up with the lovely @mrandyvotel of Finders Keepers Records #finderskeepers and beautiful images of Jane Birkin and Brigitte Bardot, nice Sly & The Family Stone cover, Syd Barrett (Official) artwork, and a bunch of other friends’ lovely albums!

01-15-2021: Thank you to the lovely UK-based Pinewood Studios, home of Superman, 007 Bond Films, etc. and their Lift-Off Global Network Film
Festival, for selecting our “Founders of Time” Auramics music video I directed, animated, edited to feature in two more film festivals this month in their Lift-Off Sessions 18 - 25 January and then again in their First-Time Filmmaker Sessions January 25 - Feb 1st. So lovely to hear that “Founders of Time” will have appeared in 7 film festivals globally: Mexico, twice in Italy, Washington DC, India, and twice in the UK. How fun! Very honored! xx

01.07.2021: Thank you Shindig! Magazine... the latest! & Camilla Aisa for featuring 6th Floor Orchestra in the January Issue #111. We're so completely honored to be included in one of our most favorite magazines! And SOOO much good stuff in this month's mag! Ciani! Serge! Birkin! Syd! Sly! xx Order your copy today at shindig-magazine.com, Barnes & Noble or your local record shop!

01.01.2021: Thank you Quentin of Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM for making us a part of your New Year's Day show. You are making us blush or is that blood...; ) 1/1/2021 Radio Show feat. "Dama Satanica" (She's the devil) - 6th Floor Orchestra

12:29.2020: 4ZZZ Radio, thanks for playing 6th Floor Orchestra on the Right Here, Right Now 12/29 radio show.

12.27.2020: Thank you Camilla Aisa for featuring 6th Floor Orchestra in this 2020 playlist. Very kind of you to think of us.

11.23.2020: Thanks to the Kaleidoskop Radio Show and Alice Peters-Burns in Germany, for playing our 6th Floor Orchestra track "Cuerdas de Bruja" today 11/23 at 5-6pm CET, on ByteFM!

11.20.2020: Many thanks @AliceOnTheWaves of OFFBEAT Music & NOVUMfm in Germany, for spinning a track from our 6th Floor Orchestra 7" "Cuerdas de Bruja" on your lovely radio show on 11/19 8-10pm CE. Thanks for the love!

11.10.20: Another lovely show tonight! Hear our @Auramics song “Founders of Time” on WRIU 90.3 the psychedelic wizard ExplosiveCorrosive Joseph WRIU is spinnin our tunes tonite in Rhode Island on the radio at 9pm-12am. If you aren’t in the region you can catch it at wriu.org. Thanks Joseph for thinking of Auramics!

11.10.2020: Thanks 4ZZZ Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM et Quentin dans Brisbane, Australia for playing @6th Floor Orchestra two weeks in a row. 4zzzfm.org.au/program/Friday-neon

11.03.2020: Wowza! Hey Rhode Island! Tune in to WRIU 90.3 FM the amazing psychedelic ExplosiveCorrosive Joseph WRIU WRIU is spinnin our 6th Floor Orchestra tunes tonite on the radio at 9pm-12am. If you aren’t in the region you can catch it at wriu.org. Cheers!

11.02.20: Aw, thank you Quentin of 4ZZZ Radio for the really kind shout from Brisbane, Australia last Friday 10/30 on Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM. Very honored to be featured on your lovely radio show. Thanks for airing Auramics over the years and also now with 6th Floor Orchestra. Cheers! x

10.29.2020: Hey all you curiouser black cats in the lovely Brisbane, Australia, tune your whiskers to 4ZZZ 102.1 FM this Friday 10/30 at 10am (GMT+10) to hear 6th Floor Orchestra on our lovely friends' radio show Friday NEON 4ZZZ Radio 102.1 FM to kick off your halloween weekend. Thank you, Quentin! xx

10.26.2020: Happy Hauntings this week, you can now stream our 6th Floor Orchestra 7", music vid, as separate tracks. Side B: "Dama Satanica"

10.26.2020: Happy Hallows week, you can now stream our 6th Floor Orchestra 7", music vid, as separate tracks. Side A: "Cuerdas de Bruja"

08.18.20: Thanks for including Auramics in another lovely radio show. Our "Sunbeams" track feat. the great DRB of Drumetrics on Bleek Swinney's Hollow Earth Radio Show on KHUH Seattle.

05.22.20: Thank you Friday Neon 4zzz Radio 102.1 FM for playing our Auramics tune "Vena Cava" on your radio show!

05.18.20: Thank you Diagonals Nick Daly for featuring Auramics (Sunbeams and Slanted Skies) in this really trippy, mindbending mix this week with a bunch of lovely friends.

4.28.20: More love, from Seattle! Thanks for thinking of us and airing a second Auramics track "Dagger Cordis" on another Hollow Earth Radio set at KHUH LP 104.7, Bleek Swinney! xx

4.15.20: ευχαριστώ! thanks to MusicArtclub Radio in Thessaloníki, Greece for thinking of us, and playing Auramics "Founders of time" on 4/15.

4.10.20: Thank you Quentin and Bec Mac for playing Auramics “Vena Cava” on Friday Neon, 4zzz Radio 102.1 FM, Brisbane, Australia!

4.9.2020: Thanks Urban Mutant DJ BLeeK & Hollow Earth Radio KHUH 104.9 Seattle for thinking of us. Hear this really lovely space trip radio mixtape including our Auramics "Slanted Skies" along with splendid friends Moon Wiring Club, 62 miles from space, Julius Vanderbilt, etc.

3.27.20: Thank you Friday Neon, 4zzz Radio 102.1 FM, Brisbane, Australia. for playing Auramics “Founders of Time” on your lovely radio show!

04.09.20: Thank you @claudemono of Perth based RTRFM 92.1 for featuring our @Auramics_ track "Mysterious World" on your lovely The Golden Applies of the Sun mixtape, along with friends Death and Vanilla, Lake Ruth, Vanishing Twin, Broadcast, Sun Ra etc.

03.08.20: Thanks to all my lovely friends who came to hear my library records set at @union_pool on 2/29 along with fantastic sets from Lake Ruth, Spectrefolk and Listening Center. It was such a delight to surprise you all with my treasured stash of rare 60s 70s oddities that inspire my music.

02.03.20: Surprise! I’m playing my treasured library records, other delights and surprises at Union Pool on Saturday, February 29th with Lake Ruth and the mighty psychedelic supergroup Spectre Folk (featuring members of Sonic Youth & Pavement The Rock Band) + Listening Center Doors at 8pm & just $10 - click for tix! - Kristi

01.03.2020: Thank you @markeyfunk for featuring @6thfloororchestra in this wonderful mix including a bunch of wonderful friends.

07.15.19: Thank you Soho Radio London for airing a 3rd Auramics song "Dagger Cordis" on "The Trip with DJ Brother Lee's" Radio Show!

07.01.19: Thank you Soho Radio London for airing our Auramics song "Mysterious World" on "The Trip with DJ Brother Lee's" Radio Show!

06.21.19: Thank you Brisbane, Australia, Friday NEON @4zzzradio 102.1 FM for airing our @auramics song "Founders of Time" hosted by the lovely Quentin and Bec Mac!

06.17.19: Thank you Soho Radio London for airing our Auramics song "Founders of Time" on "The Trip with DJ Brother Lee's" Radio Show!

01.20.2019: Grande Grazie to FAV - Festival Internazionale del Cinema Corto - XII Festival Alto Vicentino for screening our Auramics music video "Founders of Time" I directed/animated, in the Experimental Category in Villa Rossi, Santorso, Italy. ❤

11.27.2018: Good Morning friends. Our Portland psych pal Leah is playing some music today on her radio show Shroom Tunes , a bunch of lovely friends’ records and our @6thfloororchestra track “Cuerdas de Bruja” at 8-10am PST (11 EST) you can listen at 90.3 FM Portland or freeformportland.org if you live elsewhere…

11:06.18: Thank you Julius Vanderbilt from Continuous Play for featuring Auramics in this lovely mix.

11:06.2018: Thank you Mustard Relics for the lovely review for our 6th Floor Orchestra debut.

11.08.2018: SOLD OUT! Our first run of our @6thfloororchestra 7” “Dama Satanica / Cuerdas De Bruja” record is dust! Cheers! You can download the songs at 6thfloororchestra.bandcamp.com

11.2.17: The "Founders of Time" music video I directed/animated/edited for our song for my music group Auramics, screens today in Mexico at the Sacalacalaca Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival. Cheers!

10.19.17: Thank you Sunday Experience UK/Mark!: Auramics "Founders of Time" at the Sunday Experience: "...spectral sepia shaded gem stone (Auramics) ‘Founders of Time’ demurs and delights with an uncannily ethereal ghostliness."

11.2.17: The "Founders of Time" music video I directed/animated/edited for our song for my music group Auramics, screens today in Mexico at the Sacalacalaca Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival. Cheers!

08.27.17: Auramics ‘Founders of Time’ on Asheville 103.3 FM Radio Show “The Unquiet Meadow” along with A Year in the Country, Cat’s Eyes and Belbury Poly.

09.28.17: Auramics on The Unquiet Radio 103.3FM: Hear another one of our Auramics tunes late Saturday night during the witching hour (12am-2am) on Unquiet Meadow 103.3 AshevilleFM.

06.26.17: Thanks to Allison of the music group Lake Ruth for including Auramics on this lovely Twin Peaks / Lynch inspired Spotify mix tape.

03.12.17: Thanks to Shroom Tunes for including us in this lovely mix that aired on Friday with some lovely friends and musicians such as Death and Vanilla, The Galaxy Electric, Candy Claws, Stereolab, Children of Alice (Broadcast), Pram, etc!

01.19.16: Thanks to The Deli Magazine for including Auramics in the Best of NYC 2015 Poll for the Psych / Dreampop category in honorable mention for emerging artists. Cheers.

10.3.15: “Founders of Time” press at Sound Injections: "Auramics has been one of Sound Injections favorites since the first time we stumble upon them! Kristi Scarvelis and Glen Lee Flynn explore for once more the hauntological and radiophonic pop style with Founders Of Time…”

01.05.16: “A Clock Ticks” Thanks Spiked Candy, for this lovely “clock themed” mixtape feat. Auramics "Founders of Time" and Ghost Box's The Focus Group, Broadcast, Piero Umiliani, Flying Lotus, Still Corners, etc.

12.24.15: “Founders of Time” in Favourite 100 tracks of 2015

12.17.15: Thanks Airing Cupboard for including our song “Founders of Time” in “Top 20 Tracks of 2015” along with Death And Vanilla, Jane Weaver and Still Corners. Cheers.

12.14.15: “Founders of Time” in Afrodelia’s chart “Seductive Sounds”

12.11.15" Thanks to Wolf Songs For Lambs for featuring Auramics “Founders of Time” on your radio show in athens, greece along with Julia Holter, AIR and others at Intersonik Radio.

12.03.15: Auramics “Founders of Time” Now available on iTunes!

10.29.15: Review on the Auramics track “Founders of Time” at Barry Gruff Music Blog: “Auramics - 'Founders of Time’: "Bewitching, beguiling & beautiful..One of the finest tracks to be released all year”

10.7.15: Press on the Auramics tune “Founders of Time” at The Sunday Experience: “Disquieting, woozy and very much seductively calibrated in a delightfully kooky late 60’s shimmer toning, this folks is Auramics, a Brooklyn based duo by the name of Kristi and Glen whose spectral sepia shaded gem stone ‘founders of time’ demurs and delights with an uncannily ethereal ghostliness…”

9.3.15: The Auramics track “Founders of Time” will premier on 10.3.15. {{{{}}}} It will be released and available for download and also a part of a set of 3 limited picture disc records for a secret overarching art project we were asked to contribute to for your eyes n ears to feast upon very soon.

4.14.15: Press on the Auramics tune “Slanted Skies” at Sound Injections: A staggering psych soul that carries a noir pop atmosphere and should soundtrack the…”

2.3.15: Auramics on Beater.gr Feb 2015 radio show along with Machinedrum / Kelis, The Limiñanas & Florence and the Machine. Selected as Track of the month by Electric Sheep (Flynt).

2.1.15: Auramics tunes aired on Sonic Pilgrim Newtown Radio at Williamsburg/Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY radio station.

11/21.14: Press on the song “Dagger Cordis” at Sound Injections: “Auramics emit an erotic nostalgia that jumps out of the ’70s with a vintage soul to make you blush...

4.14.15: Press on the Auramics tune “Slanted Skies” at Sound Injections: A staggering psych soul that carries a noir pop atmosphere and should soundtrack the…”

11.17.14: Psychedelic Sounds for my Soul: “Auramics - Dark Side of Psych Pop”

11/02.14: WNYU Radio "HA HA Sound”: Auramics “Mysterious World” aired on the Radiophonic/ Psychedelic Setlist “Ha Ha Sound”

FILM:

04-23-2021: Huge thanks to FilmÓptico - International Visual Art and Film Festival & Viridiana TV, for selecting our Auramics music video "Founders of Time" I directed, as a Nominee, in the Video Art category. Screening online from today, 4/23, until 5/2. Check out all the films at the link below. Really honored to be featured in 9 film festivals for this film.

03-15-2021: Many thanks to lovely NeoClassic Film Festival for awarding our Auramics song "Founders of Time" as the "Quarter-Finalist", third place, in the music/soundtrack for film category today! Thanks for thinking of us for your festival! xx

01-15-2021: Thank you to the lovely UK-based Pinewood Studios, home of Superman, 007 Bond Films, etc. and their Lift-Off Global Network Film Festival, for selecting our “Founders of Time”Auramics music video I directed, animated, edited to feature in two more film festivals this month in their Lift-Off Sessions 18 - 25 January and then again in their First-Time Filmmaker Sessions January 25 - Feb 1st. So lovely to hear that “Founders of Time” will have appeared in 7 film festivals globally: Mexico, twice in Italy, Washington DC, India, and twice in the UK. How fun! Very honored! xx

01.03.21021: Thank you, Orange Film Foundation! Lovely surprise to hear that our Auramics "Founders of Time" music video I directed/animated/edited has been selected to appear in a 4th film festival. The International Folklore Film Festival at the Orange Film Academy And Research Centre this week Jan 8-10th 2021 in Kerala, India and online. Details to follow. xx

01.20.2019: Grande Grazie to FAV - Festival Internazionale del Cinema Corto - XII Festival Alto Vicentino for screening our Auramics music video "Founders of Time" I directed/animated, in the Experimental Category in Villa Rossi, Santorso, Italy. ❤

7/31/18: This winter, I was a part of this cheeky short film Mila & MiMi Too that I was asked to be an audio sound recordist for and I am quite elated to say that it will be screened before the feature film "The Spy Who Dumped Me" starring Mila Kunis & Kate McKinnon in August!

5.13.18: Grazie Italy! Thanks to Cefalù Film Festival for choosing our Auramics music video “Founders of Time” as an official selection for the 2018 festival in Cefalù, Sicily, Italy that screened on May 9th! A film that I directed/animated/ edited. It is an honor. Cheers!

5.11.18: Thank you DC for selecting our Auramics music video "Founders of Time" as an official selection that will screen on June 2!

3.15.18: Excited to announce that our Auramics song “Dagger Cordis” in featured in the horror film "Trauma" and is being debut screened in New York City at Anthology Film Archives! Cheers to @cannibaltrollfilm, we are honored to be featured!

3.12.18: The Film Short, "Mila and Mimi Too" that I was a sound recordist on, was an official selection at the HBO Women in Comedy Film Festival!

11.2.17: The "Founders of Time" music video I directed/animated/edited for our song for my music group Auramics, screens today in Mexico at the Sacalacalaca Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival.

Design:

02.15.15: Victoria's Secret Collection
09.01.13: Cole Haan Men's Collection
03.14.13: Vogue - Cole Haan
03.12.13: Cole Haan at Esquire
03.11.13: Cole Haan press at Hypebeast
09.11.12: Tommy HIlfiger "Tommy" His & Hers New Line & Collection Launch

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