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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...