Sunday, June 8, 2025

The iServalan Music School, an online digital facility for students and teachers

sarnia de la mare

Sarnia de la Mare FRSA

Artist • Composer • Educator

Sarnia is a multidisciplinary artist and founder of Tale Teller Club and Blink Friction. Their immersive work blends art, sound, and story—exploring identity, transformation, and the beauty of otherness.

As a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and founder of the Sarnia de la Maré Academy of Arts, they empower creatives to think radically and create fearlessly.


This is a general music membership which is not geared towards a single instrument but does include one free lesson a month in strings or piano. Alternatively you can use your 30 minute free lesson as a jam session or practice buddy session where we can hone your skills.

I provide extra sessions in addition on Facebook, Lounges TV, or other platforms. Feel free to book me or drop me a line for more details.

Members of the iServalan school have full access to all music tools for piano and strings with play-along scores, video playlists, teacher and student tools, and 100s of PDF scores in all levels of music. This subscription has a lot of information and if you prefer a single-instrument subscription you should choose that, also available here at one of the separate Suzuki, ABRSM, or jazz schools.

I have included a lot of early learning material but also written essays for adults interested in music in its broader sense.

I upload regularly as we evolve into a platform encompassing all genres, methods, and systems.

My interactive music books provide suitable accompanying tools for the iServalan Music School for non members and members alike and are available through Amazon and Kindle.

I am also keen to utilise other music pedagogy to encompasses various teaching methods, including Kodály, Orff Schulwerk, Suzuki, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and more. These methods prioritize a "sound before symbol" approach, focusing on musical experience through listening, imitation, and movement. They aim to develop musical literacy and skills in a holistic way, considering individual learning styles and needs. 

Here's a more detailed look at some key methods:

  • Kodály Method:Emphasizes singing as the foundation of music learning, using folk songs and a sequential approach that follows a child's natural development. It incorporates listening, singing, movement, and visual aids to reinforce concepts. 

  • Orff Schulwerk:Uses a playful and experiential approach, engaging mind and body through singing, dancing, acting, and using percussion instruments. It also incorporates improvisation and composition to develop musical literacy. 

  • Suzuki Method:Focuses on rote learning and parent-child collaboration, using violin, piano, cello, and bass as primary instruments. It emphasizes developing musical talent through repetition and positive reinforcement. 

  • Dalcroze Eurhythmics:Combines music, movement, and body awareness to awaken innate musicality through rhythmic movement, ear-training, and improvisation. It focuses on connecting music with physical movement. 

  • Other methods:These include music learning theories (Gordon), world music pedagogy, and conversational solfege. 

  • Technology in music education:Using interactive tools, like web-based platforms for Indian classical music, can supplement traditional classroom teaching. When you sign up we can talk about your goals and adapt the tools accordingly.

This is a general music membership which is not geared towards a single instrument but does include one free lesson a month in strings or piano with Sarnia de la Maré. Alternatively you can use your 30 minute free lesson as a jam session or practice buddy session where we can hone your skills, or if you are an educator, some guidance on the available opportunities and planning a strategy for working in the industry.

I provide extra sessions in addition on Facebook, Lounges TV, or other platforms. Feel free to book me or drop me a line for more details.

Members of the iServalan school have full access to all music tools for piano and strings with play-along scores, video playlists, teacher and student tools, and 100s of PDF scores in all levels of music. This subscription has a lot of information and if you prefer a single-instrument subscription you should choose that, also available here at one of the separate Suzuki, ABRSM, or jazz schools.

I have included a lot of early learning material but also written essays for adults interested in music in its broader sense.

I upload regularly as we evolve into a platform encompassing all genres, methods, and systems.

My interactive music books provide suitable accompanying tools for the iServalan Music School for non members and members alike and are available through Amazon and Kindle.

I am also keen to utilise other music pedagogy to encompasses various teaching methods, including Kodály, Orff Schulwerk, Suzuki, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, and more. These methods prioritize a "sound before symbol" approach, focusing on musical experience through listening, imitation, and movement. They aim to develop musical literacy and skills in a holistic way, considering individual learning styles and needs. 

Here's a more detailed look at some key methods:

  • Kodály Method:Emphasizes singing as the foundation of music learning, using folk songs and a sequential approach that follows a child's natural development. It incorporates listening, singing, movement, and visual aids to reinforce concepts. 

  • Orff Schulwerk:Uses a playful and experiential approach, engaging mind and body through singing, dancing, acting, and using percussion instruments. It also incorporates improvisation and composition to develop musical literacy. 

  • Suzuki Method:Focuses on rote learning and parent-child collaboration, using violin, piano, cello, and bass as primary instruments. It emphasizes developing musical talent through repetition and positive reinforcement. 

  • Dalcroze Eurhythmics:Combines music, movement, and body awareness to awaken innate musicality through rhythmic movement, ear-training, and improvisation. It focuses on connecting music with physical movement. 

  • Other methods:These include music learning theories (Gordon), world music pedagogy, and conversational solfege. 

  • Technology in music education:Using interactive tools, like web-based platforms for Indian classical music, can supplement traditional classroom teaching. When you sign up we can talk about your goals and adapt the tools accordingly.






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Saturday, June 7, 2025

ABOUT

 

About Sarnia de la Mare FRSA

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Artist. Composer. Storyteller. Disruptor.

Sarnia de la Mare FRSA is a boundary-defying multimedia artist, author, and composer with a twenty-year history of interdisciplinary creation. Known for weaving the visceral with the cerebral, the mythic with the mechanical, Sarnia invites audiences into immersive, often hauntingly beautiful worlds that balance precision with wild intuition.

From oil-painted wastelands to digital operettas, Sarnia’s work resists categorisation. Every piece—whether an artwork, a piece of music, or an experimental book—asks to be felt before it is understood. A lifelong rebel against uniformity and dullness, Sarnia’s oeuvre brims with curiosity, vulnerability, and unapologetic intelligence.

A Career Built on Immersion

Sarnia began their journey in the arts as a classical musician, studying the cello and viola with fierce dedication. This grounding in musical form evolved into composition and sound design, with projects spanning chamber works, ambient landscapes, and concept albums under the Tale Teller Club imprint.

Visual art followed—first on canvas, then through street installations, digital galleries, and collaborative couture. Sarnia is also the creative force behind Blink Friction, a punk-glam upcycling label turning salvaged fashion into wearable art, sold worldwide and shown in Brighton Arts Club’s subversive showcases.

The culmination of this polymath spirit is The Book of Immersion—a transmedia epic blending narrative fiction, original music, and symbolic imagery to explore what it means to feel, to transform, and to belong. At its heart is Renyke, an autistic AI on a quest to become fully human—a meditation on emotion, neurodiversity, and the liminal states between machine and man, queerness and becoming.

Recognition & Radical Teaching

Sarnia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, recognised for contributions to arts education and radical storytelling. Their teaching is rooted in dismantling gatekeeping in the arts. In 2024, they founded the Sarnia de la Maré Academy of Arts—a pioneering online school where students of all ages explore music, digital art, classical instruments, and painting, often blending traditional craft with emerging technologies.

Their workshops and masterclasses emphasize embodiment, neurodiversity, and creative freedom, encouraging each participant to trust their instinct and make bold, imperfect, world-changing work.

Collector, Performer, Archivist

As a collector of rare instruments, vintage prints, and ephemeral oddities, Sarnia treats history as both a palette and a provocation. Through ongoing work with Saatchi and a thriving portfolio shop, their visual archive continues to expand—bringing new life to forgotten materials and overlooked aesthetics.

Live performances, both musical and spoken, often punctuate their seasons—small, intense encounters with layered soundscapes, costumed characters, and unpredictable emotional turns.


Philosophy

"I’m not here to explain the world—I’m here to deepen its mystery."

Whether composing for future ghosts or stitching together anarchic ballgowns, Sarnia’s practice remains defiantly human. Their work insists that art should be immersive, personal, and slightly dangerous. In a world of noise, Sarnia offers signal.


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