iServalan™
“This is iServalan™ — a 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
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...
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...
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...
It can never be justified as a tool for creative composition.And ...
Not a timetable.
Not a method book.
Not a demand.A beginning.The Continuum Approach begins before sound.Before scales, before reading, before technique — we begin with relationship.Because no instrument is neutral.An instrument is a body.
It has weight, shape, resistance, temperament.
It occupies space.
It asks so...
Beethoven probably never said, “Just do ten minutes — I’ve got too many cat videos to watch on my phone.”
(You guessed it. My personal weakness.) Ten minutes sounds like something you say when you are not serious.
When you are already prepa...
It begins with a decision that some part of your life is allowed to belong to you, even when you are tired.
Even when nothing is left at the end of the day. For many adults,...
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/...
Take it slowly — but like you mean it. January has developed a reputation it doesn’t deserve. It has become the month of declarations, of dramatic before-and-after stories, of reinvention.
New body. New habits. New identity.
As if everything that came before December 31st is to be discarded like packaging. But that isn’t what January actually feels like. Janu...
not to genre, or the public image — Listen to structure. The Illusion of the Star We love the idea of the lead. The frontman.
The heart-throb.
And in classical music,...
before we talk about speed, technique, or expression, we attend to pitch.
Because a string instrument resinates when it is in tune with itself and with the world around it.An instrument in tune encourages pride in performance and confidence for future success. Strings Are Engineered Objects Every string is designed for a specific instrumen...
🎻 The Viola: Naming the Structure, Standing in the Middle Voice
Before we talk about comparison,
before we talk about being “overlooked,”
before we talk about whether the viola is harder or easier — we meet it properly. Because the viola is not a compromise.
It is a place. And to sta...
🎶 In Defence of Lift Music: Regulation, Honesty, and the Sound That Stayed Before we talk about taste,
before we talk about credibility,
before we talk about whether something is “serious” music — we should listen. Because lift music was never asking to be admired.
It was asking to...
🎹 The Piano: Naming the Structure, Entering the Architecture Before we talk about repertoire,
before we talk about grades,
before we talk about whether the piano is a “beginner’s instrument” — we meet it properly. Because the piano is not something you hold.
It is something you enter. ...
When people think about string instruments, they often focus on the left hand.
Finger placement. Accuracy. Notes. But it doesn't take long in our training to realise that it is the bow that holds the secrets of success. The bow can kill music or resurrect it. The bow is where sound actually begins. Without the bow, a string instrument is silent. The left hand chooses pitc...
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://ww...
before we talk about strength,
before we talk about whether this instrument is “too big” — we meet it properly. Because the double bass is not something you wrestle into submission.
It is...
Today, I'm Wondering, If Hip-Hop Understands Bach Better Than Rock Ever Did Counterpoint, Sampling, the Grid, and Music Built to Hold a Room Bach is often described as a composer of melodies. He wasn’t. He was an architect. His music is built from systems: interlocking lines, bas...
before we worry about whether we’re doing anything “right”,
we need to meet the instrument properly. Not romantically.
Practically. Because knowing the names of things matters —
not so that you memorise the...
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