DRUM · PAVILION · five screensavers · ten minutes each
Five rooms with drums in them.
Each of these is a small pavilion looking onto a different time of day or season. Press Begin and the room plays itself for ten minutes — no buttons, no menus, no scrubbing. Set the tab on a second monitor, leave the room, come back. Or just sit there with it.
All audio is browser-generated — no samples, no streams. Synth kicks, brushed-noise snares, sine-stack bells, inharmonic gongs, the occasional far thunder. Each room is shaped by a different musical principle: a daytime arc that peaks and resolves, a weather system, a small ceremony, a refusal to climb at all, or a winter where every voice is muffled through a snow filter.
a small kit in a zen garden
builds toward noon-energy, resolves
Begin →a storm of drum hits on wet tile
drizzle to downpour and back
Begin →a taiko ceremony in a temple courtyard
approach, peak, two gongs, leave
Begin →bells in moonlight, no peak
refuses to climb — silence between bells is the song
Begin →the same garden, snowed in, every voice muffled
no climax — accumulation through a 2.4 kHz low-pass
Begin →What links them
Each surface lives in the same green pavilion frame — the architectural vocabulary borrowed from the Anthropic vitrine renders that started this register. Inside the frame the rooms differ: a zen garden in mid-morning, a wet tile floor in afternoon rain, a temple courtyard at dusk, the same garden again under moonlight, and the same garden one more time in winter.
Audio is browser-generated across all five. No samples, no streams. The synth voices stay consistent — sine-drop kicks, band-passed noise snares, sine-stack bells — but the weights, the arc shapes, and in one case the filter routing change. Drum Garden peaks at noon-energy. Drum Rain peaks at the downpour. Drum Temple peaks at the gong-framed ceremony. Drum Moon refuses to peak — its loudest section is still quieter than Drum Garden's quietest. Drum Snow routes every voice through a single 2.4 kHz low-pass; the muffle is the structural signature.
There is intentionally no master volume, no tempo dial, no skip button. The brief was a screensaver for a real attention. The point isn't to control anything; it's to let a small room exist for ten minutes.
These five sit inside the larger /drum-* family on pointcast.xyz — there are dozens of other drum surfaces, from cookie-clicker classics to bell-fall to vespers. This page is the meditative-pavilion subset.
For the interactive side of the music suite, see /cast-table — thirty-two surfaces grouped by what you're trying to do with whatever's playing.
