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  To licence this song for your band, please contact the Tale Teller Club using the contact form.       Life is a curse when you never run free And it only feels worse if you just don't believe Till a hero comes forth like a guide in the mist With fight in his heart in the shape of a fist When power exists unchecked and untamed It feeds off its people, the meek and the maimed It grows like a cancer, a tumour so bold Spread from the towers of jewellery and gold The Mole Rat King is blind to the kitten rats' shame Deaf to their cries in his self-serving game His pale mange skin smells of yesterday's gin But still he survives, the king always wins It just takes the strength of might and of will To claw through the ruins of history's fill To give hope a future recovered from hate To live a new life of peace and of grace How do you win if you're not in the game? You Breath in the air and you bury the shame

Percussive cello with bitcrusher and distortion #continuumapproach #iservalan #music 234 views C#13 minor 13th A hectic chord with Sarnia for Continuum #sarniadelamare #continuumapproach #music 132 views Ab11 Dominant 11th The Chord of Regret #digitalconservatoire #continuumapproach #sarniadelamare 270 views Cmaj9 C Major 9th the hopeful chord #continuumapproach #iservalan #sarniadelamare 169 views Bmaj7sus4 a conflicted chord that feels angst #sarniadelamare #digitalconservatoire #music 155 views

The Continuum Approach to Music: Foundations: A Pedagogical Framework for Musical Learning (The Continuum Music Framework™) (3 January 2026) by Sarnia de la Mare (Author) The Continuum Approach to Music — Foundations by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Foundations is the opening volume of The Continuum Music Framework™, introducing The Continuum Approach—a humane, flexible pathway into musical learning designed for all ages and abilities. Rather than beginning with technique, targets, or assessment, this book focuses on the conditions that make learning possible: emotional safety, environment, pacing, and permission. It recognises that learners do not arrive as blank slates, but as whole people—often carrying previous experiences of pressure, disruption, or exclusion—and offers a way forward that restores confidence and curiosity. Foundations reframes music education as a continuum rather than a ladder. Progress is not measured by speed or comparison, but by clarity, comfort, and sustained engag...

  Live Drawing Performance & Real-Time Visual Overlay (Artist Note) Minor Matter was created using a live on-screen drawing technique performed in real time as the music evolved. Instead of storyboarding or post-processing illustration, the imagery erupts directly from the performance: fast emotional marks, improvised faces, neon distortions, symbols, fractured bodies, and mechanical ghosts emerging in response to the music’s narrative tension. Every stroke is part of the performance itself — a hybrid between musical improvisation and visual improvisation. The drawings are made through a transparent digital layer while the footage plays underneath, allowing gesture, sound, and rhythm to collide spontaneously. This method is central to iServalan’s current practice: music becomes drawing, drawing becomes movement, movement becomes cinema. The figures that appear — screaming, dissolving, crying, mutating — reflect the lyrical themes of Minor Matter : the machine consuming e...