Your Stage : When a Scene Becomes a Song: Building SAMSARAVERSE Across Different Media by Leni Hasrani

Helloo fellow creatives

One of the unexpected parts of building SAMSARAVERSE has been discovering that sometimes a scene doesn’t want to remain only on the page...

Year ago, while watching a Kecak performance in Bali, I was fascinated by the layered human rhythm, the repeated cak, cak, cak and the way dozens of voices could create tension without conventional instruments.

That memory stayed with me ..until I later wrote Chapter 2: Infernal of SAMSARAVERSE, I reimagined that rhythmic feeling inside a completely fictional setting: a damaged digital interface translating memory, fear, attachment, and consequence into fire and ritual.

The rhythm entered the chapter first:

CAK... CAK... CAK...

And eventually, the scene became music.

I and my daughter Shayla developed “Gate of Fire,” inspired by Chapters 2 and 6. Some of the lyrics grew directly from the atmosphere of that world:

"Cak, cak, the circle wakes again"

"Prayers corrupted, recompiled in pain"

"Through the loop, the angels fall"

"Echoed data through it all"

The song is darker than Shayla’s voice might suggest, and I ended up loving that contrast, an innocent voice moving through a world shaped by memory, consequence, technology, and things it cannot fully understand.

For me, this became another form of transmedia:

experience → memory → novel → character → music.

The story isn’t simply being repeated in another medium. Something from the world is being translated into a different sensory experience.

I’m curious how other creators approach this. Have you ever had a real-life experience inspire something in your story, only for that idea to later find its way into music, visual art, games, or another medium?

Gate of Fire - performed by Shayla

Spotify "Shayla" / YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AejVQ_7RS68&list=RDAejVQ_7RS68&start_rad...

About the book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ3T6NCX

Thanks for your time!