Novel
When music leaves the studio and starts changing the world around it.
Music begins when someone agrees to be moved.
An abandoned chapel, amps beneath stone arches, a bass line that pulls people off balance. HARMONY is born from listening, but the novel follows the wider wave: bodies, loyalties, institutions and the forms of power that music unsettles.
Resonance begins in sound: silences, rehearsals, musicians learning to answer one another differently. Little by little, that wave leaves the studio and exposes a society obsessed with measurement, control and traces.
I also created the RomanSon: a series of original tracks, one for each chapter, extending the novel through music. The first is now available.
Music begins when someone agrees to be moved.
Novel
Setting
Nathan and his musician friends play in an old chapel repaired without really being restored: visible cables, amps under stone arches, drums where the altar once stood, and an outbuilding where the first echoes begin to gather.
Listening
What starts as musical attention becomes a way of reading bodies, texts, games and institutions. HARMONY matters because she reveals what people have already started delegating.
Arc
The novel moves from rehearsal to games, public dependence, and the first attempts to take responsibility back before the music is reduced to a system.
Universe
Pab San novels
The dedicated site opens the wider fictional world of Pab San: stories of thresholds, memory and power, where intimate lives meet the systems around them.