DRUM · ROOMS · seven screensavers · three registers
Seven small rooms with drums in them.
All seven were built for the same brief — a screensaver for a real attention. Press Begin, set the tab aside, listen. Ten minutes, no buttons after that. But the rooms differ. The pavilion looks onto a contained zen scene through a green frame. The booth is a warm corner of a mid-century diner. The atrium is a bright daytime hotel room with tall windows onto palms.
The shared brief is what links them. The different rooms are what tells you they were built by paying attention to specific reference images, not by recombining a single template.
A green-framed glass vitrine looking onto a contained scene. Minimalist zen + synth voices + browser-only audio. Five surfaces, each shaped like a different time of day or season.
A warm mid-century corner. Hanging globe lamps, floral upholstery, framed paintings on a wood-paneled wall, plants leaning in from the edges. A small kit on the bench. Late-night jazz at 68 BPM — brushed snare sweep, walking bass, ride bell as timekeeper.
A bright daytime hotel room with floor-to-ceiling windows onto palms and a pool. Stone wall on the right, jewel-toned tropical-print banquettes inside. Bossa nova at 76 BPM — kick on 1, cross-stick on 2 & 4, shaker on 8ths, walking bass, bongo syncopation.
What links them
The brief was simple: a screensaver for a real attention. Press play, ten minutes, no buttons after that. Audio shaped like an arc rather than a song. Set the tab aside, leave the room, come back, or just sit there.
Each register honors the brief from a different angle. The pavilion is private and quiet — the room exists inside a glass frame, the kit is a small zen artifact. The booth is intimate — you're sitting at the table while the music plays at low volume behind you. The atrium is public — daylight, a hotel room you could walk into, the kit at the back near the banquettes.
The audio principle scales the same way. Pavilion surfaces use minimalist sine-stack and noise-burst voices with arcs shaped by section sparsity. Booth uses jazz quartet voicing with a structural walking bass and brushed snare sweep. Atrium uses bossa voicing with deterministically-fired kick-on-1, cross-stick-on-2-and-4, shaker-on-8ths, walking-bass-on-quarters, and bongo-on-the-and-of-3 — the rhythm is built from named bossa elements, not from random hits in a bossa mood.
For the interactive side of the music suite — surfaces you actually play with in real time — see /cast-table.
