John Karanja

My name, read as a score

Qwainaina, played

The qwainaina wordmark is drawn like sheet music: repeat dots, round noteheads, thick and thin barlines. This page reads the logo as a score and plays it, live in your browser.

Tap any letter to hear just its notes.

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Sound

The paired dots

Seven letters carry two stacked dots, the mark a repeat sign uses. Each pair plays as two quick high notes.

The noteheads

Each filled teardrop is a notehead. Its height on the logo sets its pitch: the lower it sits, the lower it sounds.

The repeat

The dots say "play it again", so the phrase plays twice. The second time, a bass line and a groove come in.

The scale

A minor pentatonic: five notes that always sit well together. High dots against low heads sound like two thumbs on a kalimba, and the last A resolves home.

The score, letter by letter

LetterDotsNoteheadsChord

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