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🪞 An Interview with the Artist: iServalan on Precision, Technology, and Emotion

Published in: Audio Aesthetica Quarterly (2024) Interviewer: Your sound world feels both futuristic and deeply human. How do you balance those two extremes? iServalan: I never see them as opposites. A string under tension is mechanical, but when you bow it, it becomes emotional. Technology is the same — it’s neutral until intention transforms it. Interviewer: There’s a distinctive calm to your studio imagery — is silence an essential part of your process? iServalan: Absolutely. Silence is the precondition for any sound that matters. I prepare silence like others prepare a stage. Interviewer: Your music is often described as cinematic. Do you think visually when composing? iServalan: Always. I think in frames, not bars. Sound should move like light. Interviewer: What’s next for you? iServalan: Expansion — not in scale, but in depth. The next works will be quieter, but they’ll reach further. (© Audio Aesthetica Quarterly) #iServalan #SoundDesign #DigitalArtistry #ModernC...

Press: Published in: The Digital Sound Review (2023)

🎧 Inside the Sonic World of iServalan Published in: The Digital Sound Review (2023) Beneath the minimalist aesthetic and poise of iServalan lies a world of extraordinary sonic precision. A classically trained musician turned digital experimentalist, she occupies a space few artists can claim — between the elegance of orchestral performance and the raw voltage of machine sound. Her studio is more sanctuary than workspace. Every cable, bow, and waveform is part of a deliberate ritual — one that fuses emotion with engineering. iServalan doesn’t simply compose; she constructs immersive sound environments that demand presence. “Music, for me, isn’t entertainment,” she explains. “It’s an architecture of feeling. I want the listener to inhabit the frequency — to be inside it, not observing it.” Listeners describe her compositions as hauntingly precise , moving between the mechanical and the sacred. It’s this tension — human vulnerability within digital control — that defines iServalan’s so...