'Songs of the Interstitium will unfold as a multi-platform project. The first novel in the series, ‘The City of Quartz’, is set in an alternative central Victoria and explores both alternative reality and alternative selves tropes. Other novels in the series – The Isle of Ruins, Library of the Marvellous Hybrids, The Orpheus Plague and Convergence: Blood Economy – will be released sequentially over the next few years.
'This site will act as a hub for a range of entrance points (both old media and new media) to core narratives of the novels. The project will unfold via the five novels, as well as several poetry collections, numerous talks/podcasts/articles, various songs by a parallel reality band called ‘Interstitium’, and online courses on various imaginative topics appearing in the books, etc.'
Source: About 'Songs of the Interstitium'.
Since 2018, songs relating to this transmedia project have been played on the following radio stations: TFSC Radio (Germany), FinnRadioFM (Finland); Radio Wigwam (Cardiff, UK); #RKC Radio (France), Vault (Scotland), SLE (Wales/England), Only Rock Radio (Spain), 3MDR FM (Australia), Muse Boat (USA), Ray and Joe Show (Florida, USA), Rock on the Rise (LA USA), Prospect (UK), Duggystone Radio (UK) Target Radio (UK), Code Zero Radio (Wisconsin, USA), Barbwires Radio / Radio Metal Rock (LA/NYC/Atlanta/Global); Lonely Oak Radio (Calif. US), 382 Radio (Midlands UK). Nu Rock Radio (North Carolina, USA); K.B Radio Canada; The Holler Indie Radio and Talk (USA) (incl. Radio.x UK); KDUB Radio (USA): Sound of Spitfire (Lincolnshire, UK), RAW RADIO (UK), Amherst Island Radio 101.3FM (Ontario, Canada); Punk Rock Demonstration Radio (USA), Zeno.FM (UK); CBJ Radio (Wyoming, USA); It Is Now Radio (UK).
Previously (pre-2014), they had been played on the following radio stations: JJJ ABC (Aust.), Phoenix (Bendigo, Aust.).
The City of Quartz
Australia
:
Zoetics Institute
,
2016
10880129
2016
single work
novel
fantasy
science fiction
'Rowan Sweeney is a thirty-three year old perpetual student with relationship and vocational issues. Out of desperation he takes a job with Douglass Green - a Doctor of 'something or other', publisher of 'curios', and New Age therapist living in Central Victoria. Rowan soon discovers Green has a hidden agenda involving Neo-Druidism, Alchemy, cricket, music, obscure languages, and a quantum computer. Asked to write a biography about Abraham Isles, 'an important 19th Century convict-mystic', Rowan quickly realises he's in over his head ... literally.
'The novel is partially set in an Alternative Australia where the European colonisation of the continent took a different path early in the 1830s. The novel explores themes related to: the place of creativity in life and society, the impact of colonisation on indigenous peoples, New Science notions of self-identity, creativity and physical reality, and the age old conflict between Materialism and sacred views of the cosmos. It is also a story about love and assuming adult responsibilities in our complex post-modern world.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
