The Lexicon
The names of the voices a song is made of.
Each stem is a deity. Click into one to hear it. Or open a slot and become one.
01 / 7
Calliope
the voice that names things
The first voice. The one a song reaches for when it wants to be remembered. Calliope's stems are the lyric and the breath in the lyric.
02 / 7
Polyhymnia
the chorus, the long thread
Polyhymnia is the harmony you didn't notice held you up. Backing vocals are the room agreeing.
03 / 7
Ares
rhythm, conflict
Ares is what makes the song move and what makes it argue with itself. Drums are not the floor; they are the thing pacing on the floor.
04 / 7
Erebus
the floor, the dark
Erebus is the floor — primordial darkness, the thing the song stands on. Bass is what you feel before you hear it.
05 / 7
Apollo
melody, light
Apollo is the line of light a melody draws across the room. Guitars argue with Calliope about who is the voice.
06 / 7
Mnemosyne
memory, return
Mnemosyne is memory. Piano is what the song sounds like after you have forgotten it once and remembered it again.
07 / 7
Iris
the leftover, the bridge
Iris carries messages between gods. The 'other' slot is whatever the song needed that no other deity claimed — a horn, a pad, a bell.