Chambers of Awe & Laura Inserra
present
QUALIA
Stepping into a Portal of Wonder, Connection, and Transformation
Directed & Performed by Laura Inserra
May 11th, 2025 / 5:45pm & 7:30pm
Premiere at the Planetarium of Fiske, Boulder
Each one of us perceives reality in a unique way. The word ‘qualia’ refers to your internal, subjective experiences of reality. Any experience you are having right now is qualia.
A full-dome film experience designed for planetariums, QUALIA takes you on a journey through the 5 Elements – Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space – as a pathway into grounding, connecting, envisioning, harmonizing, and integrating.
You are the creator of your own experience, conceiving realities only you can perceive.
Let the music and the visuals inspire you, and enjoy it...
Chambers of AWE at the Chabot Space & Science Center
Video interview with Laura Inserra
About Chambers of AWE
Founded by Laura Inserra, Chambers of AWE is a mission-driven production company rooted in 30 years of experience in immersive productions, global cross-cultural studies, and healing practices.
Our passion is to help overcome the growing imbalance between humans and nature, our loss of community, and detachment from ancient wisdom.
We facilitate immersive and transformative experiences designed to enhance profound shifts of consciousness, deepen our relationship with nature, and facilitate inner transformation and healing.
Our productions feature musical journeys crafted with ceremonial instruments and field recordings, enhanced with 360º visuals and CGI content anchored in ancient cross-cultural wisdom and human-made art.
We use cutting-edge technology to augment some of the natural sound sources, creating immersive environments with a vast spectrum of frequencies, perceptible through our bones and other meta-sensory receptors. In these settings music becomes experiential.
The immersive 360º visuals give a deeper layer of introspection, providing a lens that our naked eyes alone cannot reveal. This allows us to look at the vastness of reality with new eyes, seeing ordinary life in extraordinary ways.
Laura Inserra
Director & Producer
Laura Inserra is a world-renowned leader in sound healing - a sound alchemist, multi-instrumentalist, educator, and multimedia producer. She lives and creates at the confluence of global music, ancient wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge technology.
Laura grew up in Sicily and has been exploring the power of sound since her youth. She has decades of worldwide industry experience in soundtrack and sound design for movies, performing arts, and site-specific installations, as well as immersive multidisciplinary productions.
Laura plays hundreds of rare ancient and modern instruments from around the world - Zapotec clay flutes, Mongolian jaw harp, Tibetan bowls, Laotian khen, Australian didgeridoo, African djembe, various shamanic drums, numerous percussions, and unique custom-made instruments, including many made by her.
Combining her intimate knowledge of music with her spiritual studies, Laura developed MetaMusic Healing, gaining recognition in the NYT bestseller "Your Brain on Art" by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen. Her work has been chosen by Johns Hopkins for a research project around the benefit of music, aiming to uncover how music can amplify the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, enhance well-being, and expand our understanding of consciousness.
Laura conducts transformative leadership retreats and corporate programs with senior executive teams of companies such as Google X, Walmart, and Synergos. She is also actively engaged in creating immersive experiences and as a public speaker in the most cutting-edge conferences such as BrainMind, MAPS, and Wisdom 2.0