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 emotional life, the grief of becoming “minor,” and the quiet rebellion embedded inside collapse.
This technique will form an ongoing signature of the Immersion Cinema series — a fusion of live music, live mark-making, and widescreen visual poetry.
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MINOR MATTER — iServalan (Official Music Film)
A widescreen 4K music film from iServalan, built from live performance, poetry, and real-time digital drawing.
MUSIC + VISUAL PERFORMANCE:
Every face, mark, scream, and gesture in this film was drawn live while the music played — a spontaneous fusion of sound and illustration. The technique creates a raw, unfiltered psychological landscape: part sci-fi existentialism, part emotional meltdown, part broadcast from The Book of Immersion universe.
THE SONG:
Minor Matter was the first musical theme written for The Book of Immersion.
It explores the idea of the machine as a system that drains hope, time, emotional labour, and identity.
Lyrics include:
I'm just minor matter
That is what I am
Someone's passive income
Getting what they can…
THE VISUALS:
The film uses the Immersion Cinema aesthetic — neon black-space, glitch atmospherics, expressive faces, rapid mark-making, and collapsing human-machine forms.
All artwork created live using a transparent digital overlay, like painting directly onto the rhythm of the track.
THE IMMERSION CINEMA PROJECT:
This release opens a new era of Immersion Cinema music films, where live instruments, poetry, performance, and drawing merge into experimental widescreen cinema.
Created by:
iServalan / Sarnia de la Maré FRSA
Cello · Piano · Viola · Electronic textures · Live illustration
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