A room made of blue glass

The Blue
Chapel

Nine tones, six weathers, a ring of bells and a place to put your attention. Nothing here is recorded: every sound is built in your browser out of sine waves and noise, the moment you ask for it. Every claim wears a chip saying what kind of claim it is.

Sounding now

Nothing yet

Press begin. Browsers keep sound silent until you ask.

Volume

40%

The nave — how much room

38%

Tone voice

Glass

Spoken guide

On

Headphones make the room bigger. Keep it quieter than you think you want — long listening at volume is how hearing goes.

Chapel one

Nine tones

Tap one and it fades in and stays. Tap it again and it fades out. Two or three together make a chord you can sit inside.

Beat between the ears — needs headphones

Off

Untested With headphones, a slightly different pitch in each ear makes a slow pulse called a binaural beat. Studies on it are small and inconsistent. It is included because some people find it pleasant, and for no stronger reason than that.

Chapel two

Six weathers

All six are synthesised, not recorded — noise pushed through filters, and partials stacked into bronze. Layer as many as you like.

Bells — ring of six, plain hunt

Still

Tradition When the ring is moving it is not playing a tune. It is ringing plain hunt on six, the first method an English change-ringer learns: every bell walks steadily out to the back and in to the front, and no row of six repeats until the course comes round.

Chapel three

Fourteen sittings

Each one runs itself: it speaks, it counts, it moves on when the step is done. Pick by how long you have.

Chapel four

The anchor

A touch you set on purpose, at the top of a good feeling, so that later the touch comes first and the feeling follows. Stack it and it gets stronger.

Chapel five

Twelve things to look at

Drawn here, not borrowed — each one is built from its own geometry by a few lines of code. Tap to hold one still and breathe with it.

The part nobody puts in

What the chips mean

Six of them. They are the same six the rest of the library uses, and they are the reason you can trust the pleasant parts.

The register