Zack Corzine and Jay Kash want to change the way you read. Their Las Vegas based company, Couriers of Ruin, is dedicated to producing fiction that stimulates all five senses for a new kind of reading experience. The company’s first attempt at this, The Spyrons’ Concept was available at the Alternative Press Expo.
Couriers of Ruin: We are unveiling the new way to experience a story – incorporating all senses into a reading experience. The story is called The Spyrons’ Concept and it is released one chapter at a time. With each chapter, you’re going to get a data CD which has an hour text on it in a PDF file and an hour of music in an MP3 file. The chapters are broken up into verses and each verse has it’s own musical track that you listen to as you read. As time goes on, we’re going to incorporate more senses – smell, taste and touch – so when you read about a gusty room, an artist has interpreted that description and it will be available for you to experience on our site or through our distributors.
PRG: What is The Spyrons’ Concept about?
COR: It’s a coming of age story about this girl named Callina who is a princess about to rule a system of the universe. The system is called the System of Influence. Before she can become the ruler, she goes on this journey to all of the planets in her system to learn about the cultures and receive tokens of faith from all of the leaders. So, the journey is supposed to end in the center of the universe at the master planet, called Spherical. That’s where the Spyron come into play. The Spyron are the gods and they transfer the power from her parents to her. Her parents die and Callina becomes the new ruler.
PRG: What inspired this multi-sensory storytelling you’re trying to do?
COR: Definitely looking for something new. Right now, I think the height of entertainment out there is movies, but movies are only a two sense experience. Somewhere along the line, you learn that reading is the most internal way to receive information and its on a national decline – a 20 million person drop in the past ten years in the English language. This can only be because reading is a one sense experience and most of our lives consist of receiving information through multi-media, so we take the most internal way to receive information, apply all senses to it, and will be literally bringing a story to life.
PRG: Do you have a teaching background? What’s your motivation?
COR: The study of the Master Work is the main route. The Master Work, if you haven’t heard the term, is the study of what the universe is building. Other genres of study are philosophy, internal strength and mind expansion. Right now in the world, we are at a level we haven’t been at in a very long time, in which science and spirituality are agreeing with one another. This is based on the quantum level. If you know the book The Secret or the movie What the Bleep Do We Know!?, these are all dealing with quantum physics and spirituality and combining forces to get down to a unification of things that have been conflicting for thousands of years.
PRG: Is there a creative team behind this?
COR: Absolutely. I’ve been writing for six years, since right when I started college. I graduated last year and then started the company. Joey is the co-owner, and he grew up next door to me. We’ve always had crazy, imaginative dreams and now we’re coming together to bring them to life. He’s the source behind the music, but we have a lot of other artists involved. As you know, we perceive life with our senses, we perceive art with our senses, so if we create something fictional that uses all senses to experience, then you’re creating reality, but not in a virtual sense, more in an internal sense.
PRG: This sounds almost like performance art on disk. Is The Spyron Concept something that could be performed live?
COR: A verse in a story is between two to five pages. The plan for the future is for artists to come up with something similar to a Roman play and then perform as the music is going on to bring that sort of culture back into life, which is something that has been lost over time.
PRG: Who is your audience for this? Who do you see being drawn to it?
COR: We have to look at what we’re putting out. We’re putting out something that is science fiction, so it will appeal to the sci-fi people. We appeal to anyone who seeks a spiritual path that’s more free based off of your own right and wrong, not what someone else thinks is right and wrong for you. Also, anyone who is into experimental music or dramatic change in the world or something new.
For more on Couriers of Ruin and The Spyrons’ Concept, visit their website.
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