What is the Book of Immersion? Let's find out from author Sarnia de la Mare FRSA
Sarnia de la Mare FRSA Multimedia Artist, Author, Musician & Filmmaker The Book of Immersion began during lockdown as a sci-fi musical, a fever-dream of dancing androids, sensory immersion, and philosophical reflection. The vision hasn’t left me — the band, the songs, the performance — it's all still in my head. But the form it’s taken has evolved. Initially, I imagined the Tale Teller Club not just as a band but as the band within the book. Its fictional members — Flex, iServalan, and the narrator Vapor Punk — were simultaneously characters in the story and voices in the music. Even before she appeared in the book, iServalan existed sonically, performed with a particular plugin timbre. Flex had a voice too, as did Vapor Punk, whose eerie childlike tones opened each "strata" (chapter) with AI-style musings on humanity and machinery. I took advantage of global stillness to explore immersive storytelling — sound, animation, digital effects. But immersion turned out t...