# marimbaba — a lullaby for synthesized marimba. # # Style: cute weird syllabic phrasing of the whistlegraph platter # (butterfly-cosplayer, mommy-wow, slinky-dog, lately-when-i-fly). # Each phrase below has an unspoken "lyric" — a singable chant that # the marimba is playing as if humming-to-sleep. The voices are # layered, not arranged as a single line. # # Key: F major. Slow 3/4, ~56 BPM (1 beat ≈ 1.07 s, 1 bar ≈ 3.21 s). # Form: 24 bars / ~80 s. The score lives at marimbaba.np; the actual # event scheduling + mix lives in bin/render-marimbaba.mjs. # # Voices: # rosewood — the singer; the syllabic melody # bass — the rocking chair (low pulse, half-bar) # kalimba — twinkles on phrase tails (cute, off-beat) # vibraphone_off — dream haze pad (held thirds, no motor) # # ── unspoken lyric, syllable-by-syllable ────────────────────────────── # # [hush hush] — descending sigh, beat 1 of bars 1–4 # bar 1: hush ─ hush ─ hush (C5 ─ A4 ─ F4) # bar 2: hush (F4 held) # bar 3: hush ─ hush (A4 ─ G4) # bar 4: hush (F4 held) # # [twin-kle] — climbing-falling little waves, bars 5–10 # bar 5: twin-kle twin-kle twin (F5 A5 ─ C6 A5 ─ G5) # bar 6: kle (G5 held) # bar 7: lit-tle star hi star (F5 G5 ─ A5 ─ G5) # bar 8: star (F5 held) # bar 9: way up high (Bb5 ─ D6 ─ Bb5) # bar 10: up there (C6 ─ A5) # # [wow wow wow] — held wobble, bars 11–14 (vibraphone_off) # bar 11: wow wow (G5 ─ Bb5 — held) # bar 12: (sustain into 13) # bar 13: wow wow wow (A5 G5 A5) # bar 14: wow (F5 held) # # [ba-ba-ba bap] — slinky-dog wobbly, bars 15–18 # bar 15: ba-ba-ba bap (A5 G5 A5 ─ F5) # bar 16: ba-ba-ba bap (C6 Bb5 C6 ─ A5) # bar 17: ba-ba ba (G5 F5 ─ E5) # bar 18: bap (F5 held) # # [sleep now] — final settling descent, bars 19–24 # bar 19: sleep now (C5 ─ A4) # bar 20: lit-tle one (G4 F4 ─ F4) # bar 21: dream a while (A4 ─ G4 ─ F4) # bar 22: dream (F4 held) # bar 23: shhh (F3 held, low) # bar 24: (silence + tail) # # Below: section markers for the renderer (sections by name). # hush 4 [rosewood, bass] C5:_*1 A4:_*1 F4:_*1 F4:_*3 A4:_*1.5 G4:_*1.5 F4:_*3 # twinkle 6 [rosewood, bass, vibraphone_off] F5:_*1 A5:_*1 C6:_*0.5 A5:_*0.5 G5:_*3 F5:_*1 G5:_*1 A5:_*0.5 G5:_*0.5 F5:_*3 Bb5:_*1 D6:_*1 Bb5:_*1 C6:_*1.5 A5:_*1.5 # wow 4 [vibraphone_off, kalimba] G5+Bb5:_*6 A5:_*1 G5:_*1 A5:_*1 F5:_*3 # baba 4 [rosewood, kalimba, bass] A5:_*0.5 G5:_*0.5 A5:_*1 F5:_*1 C6:_*0.5 Bb5:_*0.5 C6:_*1 A5:_*1 G5:_*1 F5:_*1 E5:_*1 F5:_*3 # sleep 6 [rosewood, bass] C5:_*1.5 A4:_*1.5 G4:_*1 F4:_*1 F4:_*1 A4:_*1 G4:_*1 F4:_*1 F4:_*3 F3:_*3 :_*3