Welcome to Fractured Harmony, by Soaria and Ashlyn Nafina. Soaria is the music/media project of author Ashlyn Nafina.

You can contact/follow Soaria/Ashlyn on the Fediverse (aka Mastodon): @avynaria@mk.aetheri.ca

Also, a slower pace, longer form Soaria blog.

This is a book containing many pieces of media, both visual and audible. Think of it like a self-guided tour at a museum: you may feel free to look or listen to anything you like as you read the story, in whatever order you like. They've been placed somewhere that we think is aesthetically appropriate, but it's your reading experience. You can even skip them if you like; it won't detract from the overall story.

If you'd like a single page, to make into a PDF or to read with an audiobook reader, there is a single page version of the story with less decoration and scripting. (Warning: It's big.)

All of the audio is available separately as an album to which you can listen separate from the reader.

Most of the art was created in tandem with Midjourney. Probably nothing that can be said here will please the die-hard AI art critics, but for anyone else who is curious...:

Most of the images started with an idea based on the story. A great deal of prompt searching finds a good base image, and then some amount of back-and-forth happens with in-painting and re-painting. After an upscale, the image is downloaded and gets anywhere from five minutes to hours of Pixelmator Pro manual labour. Sometimes intermediate images are combined and then sent back through Midjourney as prompt inputs, and the process begins again. Interestingly, sometimes the surprising output of the images also inspired story changes. It's a collaborative process.

The writing is purely hand-crafted, outside of the normal Scrivener tools and such.

The music doesn't use any generative AI, either. Music production today involves a fair amount of AI by default (for things like solo mastering), but no prompt-to-audio stuff. You can find more notes with each track on SoundCloud.

And with that, let's all gather 'round: it's time for us to venture to a very different kind of Earth...