Voca

Voca is a multimedia project set in Bel City, Bel in the Year 485.

The initial manifestation of this project was a blog run in the first half of the 2014, a mixture of role-play, creative writing, art, pseudo-non-fiction writing and sound art detailing the life and times of Amberrule Tremain, a sixteen-year-old student with a part-time job delivering chordophones to his company Mayfeather Enterprises' many customers. In Bel, the art of invocation is the main means by which humans channel the power of deities. Invocation involves the typing of computer programme-like instructions onto a strip of paper (a voca) which is fed through a parser and transmitted to the ether by means of automatic musical instruments.

The story of Voca concerns, among other things, the characters' various exploits with the art of invocation. Amber's best friend, Hymnopelia, discovers a natural talent for invoking deities by singing (instead of through programmed musical instruments, or even playing a musical instrument by hand).