iServalan™
“Welcome to iServalan™ — my stage name and podcast about music, listening, and the Continuum Approach. I’m interested in how music works over time, across genres, and inside the body — not as a set of rules, but as a living system.” iServalan™ is a music-led podcast exploring sound, structure, performing, and listening across genres, eras, and cultures. Rooted in the Continuum Approach, the podcast moves away from rigid methods and hierarchies, focusing instead on music as a living process — shaped by feeling, repetition, constraint, embodiment, and time. Episodes range from short reflective essays and performance-based observations to practical musical insights drawn from classical training, contemporary practice, and lived experience. Punk, Baroque, hip-hop, minimalism, and experimental sound are treated not as opposites, but as points on the same continuum. This is not about perfection, speed, or gatekeeping. It is about architecture, attention, and learning how music actually works — in the body, in the room, and in the mind. For musicians, listeners, and curious thinkers who want depth without dogma.
Episodes
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
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https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
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iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s...
Image scores occupy a rare and valuable space in music-making. They sit between improvisation and composition, allowing each to inform the other without hierarchy. Rather than separating “free play” from “serious writing,” image scores quietly dissolve that boundary. They give improvisation shape — and give composition breath. At their core, image scores replace instruction with i...
When we remove notes, bars, and instructions, something unexpected happens: musicians begin to listen again and to simultaneously express themselves musically without prior knowlege of music score reading. This is extremely liberating, great fun, an...
Not finished things in themselves. Not even pop songs, or genre based words. Let's start with nothing... Just the act of writing — daily, imperfectly, with no expectations or judgement, and without asking where the work will end up. Many mus...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://...
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0CWGX2DJ6🎨 Professional profil...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/au...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré ...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazo...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gum...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form wo...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form wor...
You Don't need an Orchestra when You Have a Bedroom Musician - Discuss | iServalan | Continuum Music When any Tom, Dick, or Harry can make a “classical” album in their bedroom in an hour, the orchestra looks suspiciously obsolete. You can buy the samples.
You can stack the parts.
You can quantise the timing, tune the pitch, polish the reverb.
You can export something that sounds orchestral before th...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s...
iServalan™
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s...
Before fingers arrive, the instrument already knows how to sing.Open strings are often treated as placeholders—sounds we pass through quickly on the way to “real” notes. In the Continuum Approach, they are understood differently. Open strings are not an absence of skill. They are the instrument speaking in its most stable, truthful voice.For early learners, this...
Music, listening, and the Continuum Approach: Exploring sound across genres, eras, and performance cultures — from Baroque to punk, hip-hop to minimalism — without hierarchy or haste.
🎧 Podcast & essays: 🎻 Music School
https://iservalan.gumroad.com/l/concervatoire?
https://iservalan.gumroad.com📚 Books & long-form work by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0CWGX2DJ6🎨 Professional profil...
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