TooFar Media

TooFar Media

About this app

TooFar Media is a multimedia production company that creates immersive storytelling experiences combining book, music, art, animation and video. Founded over twenty years ago by author, musician, composer and producer Rich Shapero, the company collaborates with renowned artists from around the globe, including Grammy award-winning musicians and producers, mind-blowing visual artists and talented animators.

Discover Twelve Fantastic Storyworlds:

1. Hibiscus Mask: Untangle a mystery of jungle love.

2. Beneath Caaqi's Wings: Feud with teenage tribes in the ancient jungle inside us all.

3. Dreams of Delphine: Fathom the uncanny wisdom and power of dream space.

4. The Slide That Buried Rightful: Wake to a new understanding of earthly, and unearthly, justice.

5. Dissolve: Dare to accompany a man with unusual beliefs in his rapturous transition between life and death.

6. Island Fruit Remedy: Surrender to an outrageous tropical burlesque about the creative act of finding and keeping love.

7. Balcony of Fog: Cast off into the clouds to experience the conflict between the power of love and the love of power.

8. Rin, Tongue and Dorner: Take a fiery, hyper-metaphorical ride into the red-hot depths of buried passion and the combustible inner workings of human desire.

9. Arms from the Sea: Plunge into an oceanic “heaven” and let a perverse, tentacled god challenge your trust as he guides you toward the redemption of a desolate world.

10. The Hope We Seek: Dare to descend with a mercurial goddess into the depths of an allegorical gold mine to unearth the redemptive power of passion and belief.

11. Too Far: Explore a mystical northern forest and discover the promise and cruelty of what it means to grow up.

12. Wild Animus: Leap into a wild visionary landscape where a meeting with a seismic god augurs a bliss beyond fear.

Features include:

• Fully integrated music and video players

• Over 100 original tracks written by Rich Shapero, Elsiane, Orenda Fink (Azure Ray) and Lhasa de Sela, featuring vocals by Marissa Nadler, Maria Taylor, Orenda Fink, Hollie Fullbrook, and musical contributions from Andy LeMaster (Bright Eyes), Marc Ribot (John Zorn/Tom Waits), Son of Dave (Crash Test Dummies), Eric Drew Feldman (Captain Beefheart/PJ Harvey), El Búho, Nils Petter Molvær and more

• Stunning high-res art by Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Donald Pass, François Burland, Adde Russell, Hilary Brace, Ramón Alejandro, Cameron Nelson, Paul Rumsey and Dean Buchanan

• Arresting art animations by Tomas Cottle, Tavet Gillson, Janelle Miau and Andres Fouché

• Hi-res videos featuring natural (and unnatural) phenomena as well as pundits from various fields discussing core ideas of Dreams of Delphine and Balcony of Fog

• Bonus short story related to Dissolve

• Bonus audio tracks including “Wild Animus: 50 Years Later”; “Hard Trials, Great Tribulations” by Mt. Zion Baptist Quartet; “Mister Moon” demo by Rich Shapero; “Does Presden Deserve Delphine?” by Rich Shapero, with Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor and Sally Dworsky (vocals); and “The Royal Express” by Rich Shapero (composer/guitar/vocals)

• Bonus album, The Slide That Buried Rightful: The Music

• Bonus video featuring Elsiane's live performance of a track from Rin, Tongue and Dorner

• Bonus animation “Storm” by Tomas Cottle

• Q&As with the author for all titles

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Ratings and reviews

What I had hoped would be (as advertised) an immersive world of engaging stories turned out to be a poorly coordinated blend of banal new age music, uninteresting abstract images, and a series of amateur and mediocre short stories. To make matters worse, actually trying to "immerse" oneself in these stories (combining the art & music with the reading) is next to impossible, since the controls to browse through the pages are awkward and clumsy, and often useless if the app becomes stalled. While simply trying to read one page after another, I somehow got detoured and the app forced me to listen to a song or view a gallery of the art. Getting back to the story wasn't helpful, because I had no way of marking the page from which I could resume reading.

the "chapters" are NOT clearly marked, I will not get into the issues with grammar and punctuation. This is supposed to be immersive, I am going to presume that the "immersive" part has nothing to do with the music or the art work. The music is unique, but it is also grainy and if there are words the voice is over toned by the instrumental. The art work, though stunning, does not go with the story. If this is supposed to be immersive or rather inclusive, than the art should go with the story.

I read Rin, Tongue, and Dorner. The novel is an exploration of the inner struggle between the id, ego, and superego. I found the writing to be in-depth and thoughtful. Each character had an individuality that was fun to see. The scenery was interesting yet easy to envision. Superb music tracks. I was less excited about the artwork; I found it all too similar. Author occasionally overexpounds, but not a big deal. Overall, I liked this and will be reading some of the other books on the app.