# dewabap — a dew-drop morning for synthesized marimba. # # Style: each note is a single droplet catching the first light. the # whistlegraph platter's slowest sibling — misty, breathing, mostly # space. one of the four marimbaba never-sung chants finally lands as # a held G-major bloom at the end. # # This is marimbaba's pre-dawn cousin. Same lane, same whistlegraph # DNA, opposite tempo: bright G major, slow 4/4 at 78 BPM, all haze. # A ~62-second drift instead of a hop. Space matters more than density. # # Key: G major (G A B D E pentatonic for the lead; G–Em–C–D under). # 4/4, ~78 BPM (1 beat ≈ 0.769 s, 1 bar ≈ 3.077 s). # Form: 20 bars / ~62 s. The score lives at dewabap.np; the actual # event scheduling + mix lives in bin/render-dewabap.mjs. # # Voices: # glockenspiel — the lead; each note one dewdrop, bell-pure # vibraphone_off — misty pad, motor off, very long sustains # kalimba — drips on phrase tails (off-beat sparkles) # bass (marimba) — one sparse low G per section, the ground # # ── unspoken lyric, syllable-by-syllable ────────────────────────────── # # [drop] — single droplets on 1 & 3, bars 1–4 # bar 1: drop DROP (B5 ─ G5) # bar 2: drop DROP (D6 ─ B5) # bar 3: drop DROP (B5 ─ G5) # bar 4: drop DROP (D6 ─ B5 held) # # [shine] — gentle ascending, bars 5–10 (the mist begins to glow) # bar 5: shine SHINE (D6 ─ E6) # bar 6: shine SHINE (E6 ─ G6) # bar 7: dew DEW (D6 ─ B5 held) # bar 8: shine SHINE (E6 ─ D6) # bar 9: dew DEW (B5 ─ A5) # bar 10: drift (held) (G5 held 4 beats) # # [wake] — vibraphone_off pad swells in, bars 11–16 # bar 11: wake the MOR ning (G5 A5 ─ B5) # bar 12: wake the LIGHT (B5 D6 ─ A5 held) # bar 13: morn ing (G5 ─ D6) # bar 14: wake the SUN (A5 B5 ─ D6 held) # bar 15: turn ing (E6 ─ D6) # bar 16: warm ing (B5 ─ G5 held) # # [bloom] — held G major chord, all voices, then a final ping, bars 17–20 # bar 17: o pen (G5 held 4 beats) # bar 18: o pen (B5 held 4 beats) # bar 19: O PEN (D6 held 4 beats) # bar 20: (ping) (G6 ─ ─ ─ ring out) # # Below: section markers for the renderer (sections by name). # drop 4 [glockenspiel, vibraphone_off] B5:_*2 G5:_*2 D6:_*2 B5:_*2 B5:_*2 G5:_*2 D6:_*2 B5:_*2 # shine 6 [glockenspiel, vibraphone_off, kalimba] D6:_*2 E6:_*2 E6:_*2 G6:_*2 D6:_*2 B5:_*2 E6:_*2 D6:_*2 B5:_*2 A5:_*2 G5:_*4 # wake 6 [glockenspiel, vibraphone_off, kalimba] G5:_*1 A5:_*1 B5:_*2 B5:_*1 D6:_*1 A5:_*2 G5:_*2 D6:_*2 A5:_*1 B5:_*1 D6:_*2 E6:_*2 D6:_*2 B5:_*2 G5:_*2 # bloom 4 [glockenspiel, vibraphone_off, kalimba, bass] G5:_*4 B5:_*4 D6:_*4 G6:_*4