QUALIA: A Full-Dome Immersive Experience / SALT LAKE CITY

QUALIA is an immersive full-dome experience that weaves sound, nature, and scientific imagery into a journey of awe, reflection, and wonder.

This special Salt Lake City premiere includes a live post-show Q&A with creator Laura Inserra, offering an intimate opportunity to explore the intentions, science, and artistry behind the experience.

QUALIA invites you beyond the ordinary and into a state of awe and wonder. Created for planetariums, QUALIA is a mesmerizing experience designed to engage audiences of all ages. Through enveloping sound and 360º visuals, it invites viewers into a shared space of presence and curiosity.

The word qualia refers to the unique, subjective experiences each of us has—the colors we see, the emotions we feel, the meaning we assign to experience. It reminds us that reality is not something outside of us, but something we co-create within.

Whether you come to relax, reflect, enjoy, or simply be, QUALIA meets you where you are and carries you somewhere new.

The 5 Elements Revealed
Journey through Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space, brought to life through breathtaking, larger-than-life full-dome projections inspired by nature and real scientific data.

Immersive Sound & Music
Experience an original musical score performed with rare acoustic instruments from cultures around the world. Carefully composed for the dome environment, the sound design creates a rich, enveloping atmosphere—supporting relaxation, nervous-system regulation, and inner coherence.

Expanded Awareness
QUALIA offers both an outward and inward view—inviting audiences to experience the vastness of nature and the cosmos, while also noticing how perception, sound, and imagery shape our inner experience.

“...mental clarity”

“...inner guidance”

“...a boost of creativity“

“...a feeling of being at home“

“...a connection to the ancestors“

“...a life transforming experience”

“...a renewed relationship with nature”

“...physical and emotional pain release”

“...a psychedelic journey without medicine“

“...a clear felt experience that all is interconnected“

“...a sense of inner peace never experienced before”

ABOUT QUALIA

QUALIA is a full-dome film experience that merges immersive sound, 360º visuals, ancient wisdom, and cutting-edge technology to awaken your senses, deepen your connection with nature, and inspire inner transformation.

More than a show, QUALIA is a journey through the 5 Elements—Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space—guided by ceremonial music and awe-inspiring visuals that stretch beyond the limits of the visible world.

At its heart, QUALIA is an offering of sound as medicine, composed and performed by sound alchemist Laura Inserra using rare instruments rooted in sacred traditions.

The visuals—blending real-world imagery, CGI, and scientific data—evoke both the overview effect of witnessing Earth from above and the inner-view effect of expanded self-awareness.

The word qualia refers to the deeply personal nature of perception—the colors we see, the emotions we feel, the meaning we assign to experience. It reminds us that reality is not something outside of us, but something we co-create within.

QUALIA invites you to a sacred space where you become the creator of your own journey, perceiving reality through the lens of your own inner eyes.

Whether you come to relax, reflect, dream, heal, or simply be, QUALIA meets you where you are—and carries you somewhere new.

Step beyond the ordinary into a state of awe and wonder.

This is your QUALIA.

Let your journey begin...

The concept of 'qualia' — the irreducibly subjective quality of experience — has occupied philosophers for centuries. It refers to the "what it is like" aspect of consciousness: the redness of red, the warmth of sunlight on the skin, the inner texture of joy, grief, or awe. These dimensions of experience cannot be fully captured by external measurement or objective description, yet they form the very substance of lived reality.

While philosophy often approaches 'qualia' as a conceptual problem to be analyzed, Laura Inserra’s work brings the inquiry into the realm of direct, embodied experience. Rather than attempting to define 'qualia', her work creates the conditions in which it can be encountered. Through sound, vibration, silence, and attention, participants are invited to explore consciousness not as an abstract idea, but as a lived, felt reality.

Inserra’s artistic language is rooted in the understanding that experience itself is a primary mode of knowing. Her soundscapes draw from ancient musical traditions, rare acoustic instruments, and contemporary research into sound and perception. Instruments such as Zapotec clay flutes, field-recordings, percussions, and subtle harmonic textures are used not for performance alone, but as tools for guiding awareness.

These sonic environments engage the whole system—body, nervous system, imagination, and emotional landscape—allowing each participant to encounter their own unique inner response. No two experiences are the same. This individuality is not a limitation of the work; it is its foundation. Each listener meets their own 'qualia': their personal way of sensing, feeling, remembering, and meaning-making.

At the heart of Inserra’s approach is the recognition that healing and transformation do not arise from imposing a specific outcome, but from creating coherent, resonant conditions in which the system can recalibrate itself. The experience becomes a mirror rather than a prescription.

This approach aligns with emerging perspectives in neuroscience and experiential medicine, which increasingly acknowledge that perception, emotion, and meaning are active processes shaped by the nervous system and embodied context. Experience is no longer seen as a passive reflection of the external world, but as a dynamic, co-created phenomenon.

Sound and music hold a particularly powerful role within this framework. Research in psychoacoustics, auditory neuroscience, and brainwave entrainment demonstrates that rhythm, frequency, and harmonic structure can influence neural oscillations, autonomic regulation, and emotional processing. Musical structures have been shown to modulate alpha, theta, and gamma brainwave activity—states associated with relaxation, insight, memory integration, and expanded awareness.

Inserra’s musical work has been developed in dialogue with this research, including a collaboration with Johns Hopkins University exploring the effects of carefully structured sound on consciousness and well-being. Her compositions employ repetition, resonance, harmonic simplicity, and spaciousness to support nervous-system coherence and parasympathetic activation. Rather than directing the listener toward a single emotional narrative, the music opens a field in which each individual’s experience can unfold organically.

Her work aligns with experiential medicine as explored by researchers like Adam Gazzaley at UCSF, who investigates how designed experiences can become healing interventions. Testimonials from Inserra's performances frequently describe states of deep calm, clarity, emotional breakthroughs, and altered states of awareness—suggesting that her art functions as a form of medicine through experience itself.

Philosopher Thomas Nagel’s seminal essay 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?' articulated a crucial insight: subjective experience cannot be replaced by objective description. Knowing everything about a bat’s neurobiology does not tell us what it feels like to be a bat. Neuroscientist Francisco Varela later expanded this understanding through 'neurophenomenology' — a methodology integrating first-person experience with third-person measurement.

Inserra’s work resonates strongly with this view. Rather than explaining consciousness from the outside, she cultivates conditions in which participants can directly observe their inner states with greater sensitivity and presence. Attention becomes an instrument. Listening becomes a practice. Experience becomes both the subject and the guidance.

A distinctive aspect of Inserra’s work is its emphasis on shared, embodied experience. In an era increasingly mediated by screens and algorithmic interaction, her work re-centers the human nervous system in physical space. Sound is felt in the body, silence is held collectively, and awe becomes a shared field rather than a private escape.

This communal dimension reinforces connection, reflection, and a sense of belonging—qualities diminished in overstimulated, fragmented environments. The experience does not isolate; it gathers. It reminds us that consciousness is not only personal, but relational.

Inserra’s work does not claim to solve the hard problem of consciousness. Instead, it reframes the inquiry. Rather than asking only 'what' consciousness is, it invites us to explore 'how' we experience being alive. In doing so, it restores value to qualities that cannot be quantified: awe, intimacy, resonance, wonder, and self-discovery.

By bridging philosophy, neuroscience, and embodied wisdom, her work offers a living exploration of 'qualia' — one that honors both scientific rigor and the mystery at the heart of experience. It reminds us that while some aspects of reality can be measured and explained, others must be met directly, with openness and presence.

Ultimately, the work invites participants to recognize their own subjective experience not as a limitation, but as a source of wisdom. Reality is not something we merely observe. It is something we participate in—moment by moment, sensation by sensation, sound by sound.

Among the many expressions of this inquiry, Inserra’s full-dome sound and visual experience QUALIA stands as one of the most impactful and far-reaching manifestations of her work. Designed for planetariums and large-scale immersive environments, QUALIA translates these principles of perception and presence into a format capable of reaching thousands across cultures and contexts.

QUALIA is not a spectacle, but a carefully orchestrated experiential field—one that preserves the intimacy of inner exploration while expanding its accessibility. It demonstrates how experiential philosophy and sound-based practices can scale without losing their depth or subtlety. The dome becomes both vessel and mirror, inviting each participant into a shared journey of consciousness.

In a time of rapid technological change and growing alienation, this work returns us to something ancient and essential: the power of sound, space, and presence to awaken the intelligence within. In QUALIA, the mysteries of consciousness are not solved, but 'sounded' into being.

To know more about Laura Inserra’s work, please visit https://www.laurainserra.com

ABOUT LAURA INSERRA

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

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"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration." ~ Nikola Tesla

Combining the power of sound, wisdom traditions, and cutting-edge technology to facilitate awe-inducing experiences, inner transformations, and healing.

​Founded by Laura Inserra, Chambers of AWE is multi-media wellness company rooted in decades 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.

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