# Music drafts — the 40-interpretation fan-out

One folder per interpretation (slug names match
`docs/music-environments.md`). Each contains three Opus renders:

1. `1-calm-bed.opus` — the idle state (bed group alone): what plays
   while you fish, read, build.
2. `2-activity-bed+color.opus` — the travel/activity mix (bed + color
   melody).
3. `3-full-mix.opus` — everything including depth texture and the
   danger layer at full; in-game the danger channels ramp 0→100%, so
   this is the "it's here" extreme.

Motif families (see doc §7): hearth, horizon, vault, foxfire, tread,
elegy. Batches land incrementally — check folder dates.

### batch-g (air & light)
- `sky-archipelago` — E major 108. Wide-leap melody, wind chimes;
  danger is subtractive (no low end at altitude).
- `pillars-spanwalk` — B dorian 84. TREAD handoff: tundra's walk
  across the spans, the last step leaping the bar line.
- `tundra-aurora` — E lydian 60. FOXFIRE handoff: crystal-lumen's
  glints stretched into curtains, rising portamento phrase-ends.
- `flats-mirror` — D lydian 62. The inverted-echo identity: every
  phrase answered upside-down with a sub-octave shadow.
- `windcaves-chorus` — E mixolydian 78. The cave as choir: three
  breath-voices swelling on root/fifth/octave.

### batch-h (living ground & water)
- `swamp-heron` — G dorian 72, swung. Standalone; dragged-boom danger.
- `fungal-overgrowth` — G mixolydian 112. 3-against-4 pulse cells.
- `ice-meltwater` — D major 92. HORIZON heard in thaw-water (defers
  to ocean-sailing; same swellPad/waterLap patches).
- `sandfall-veins` — F mixolydian 60. The sand-hiss columns are the
  music; danger = the drain.
- `crystal-lattice` — C# minor pentatonic 60. Palindromes reflected
  an octave down; danger = a pane giving way.

## Landed

### batch-a (hearth home)
- `meadow-haze` — F ionian 84. HEARTH home statement (kalimba).
- `beach-driftwood` — C major 104. Hearth, bright + offbeat-delayed.
- `caves-lantern` — G major 84. Hearth on celesta, V→I loop wrap.
- `fungal-haven` — Eb major 72. Hearth on kalimba, augmented tail.
- `magma-forgeheart` — C mixolydian 96. Hearth shifted into the low
  work register, anvil offbeats.

### batch-b (horizon home)
- `ocean-sailing` ◆ — G major/mixolydian 100. HORIZON home; the
  owner's worked example: becalmed swell-pad deck, arcing travel
  melody, storm/wake booms landing on the bar. ◆ = catalog flagship.
- `desert-caravan` — D mixolydian 92, 6/8 lilt. Horizon on the gait.
- `alpine-ascent` — Bb lydian 88. Horizon sequenced upward to the
  lydian crest; danger = weather closing.
- `sky-updraft` — A mixolydian 126, 3/4 waltz. Horizon swung.
- `sunless-crossing` — B aeolian 68, 6/8 barcarolle. Horizon an
  octave down, one oar stroke per beat.

### batch-d (tread home)
- `tundra-longwalk` — D aeolian 80. TREAD home statement, snow-crunch
  ghost steps; danger = whiteout.
- `desert-noon` — A minor pentatonic 60. Slow hollowed tread; danger =
  exposure pulse.
- `flats-crossing` — F# minor pentatonic 116. Tread halved into
  shuffle cells; danger = crust giving way.
- `rift-descent` — E aeolian 72. The flagged device: inverted tread —
  the walk that falls; danger = handholds failing.
- `sandfall-undertow` — Bb dorian 100. Tread footwork against the
  current; danger = undertow drag.

### batch-c (vault — the whole family)
- `caves-vaulted` ★ — A dorian 66. VAULT home, "The Patient Dark":
  hollow fifths + twin celesta echo trails, zero chromatic tones.
  ★ = the RECOMMENDED underground-replacement audition.
- `ocean-doldrums` — C lydian 66. Vault fragmented, settle withheld.
- `alpine-summit` — A major 72. Vault augmented above the cloud sea.
- `pillars-cloister` — Eb lydian 58. Vault as plainchant with echo
  at the fifth; gong bed.
- `rift-brink` — C minor pentatonic 52. Vault reduced to root+fifth
  at the edge; panned-boom danger.

### batch-f (elegy home, quiet patience)
- `beach-greystrand` — A aeolian 76. ELEGY home statement; danger =
  the storm wheeling back.
- `ruins-archive` — C dorian 70. Elegy on celesta, steeper decay.
- `ruins-oldmusic` — Ab major 88, 3/4. The HEARTH motif quoted as a
  remembered dance; the cross-batch handoff piece.
- `magma-slowburn` — F minor pentatonic 56. Elegy surfacing in
  20-beat arcs from the low register.
- `windcaves-still` — B major 48. The silence piece: ≤3 notes per
  pattern, room tone at the edge of hearing.

### batch-e (foxfire home)
- `crystal-lumen` ★ — B lydian 76. FOXFIRE home: glass-bell canon
  echoing at the fifth. ★ = underground-replacement candidate.
- `meadow-firstbloom` — G lydian 112. Foxfire as opening blossoms.
- `swamp-lanternmarsh` — Bb major pentatonic 88. Foxfire on the
  marsh lanterns; danger = lights going out.
- `sunless-shore` — F# mixolydian 80. Foxfire riding the lap rhythm;
  danger = tide rising (lap accelerando).
- `ice-glasshall` — A lydian 64. Hushed foxfire echoed a sixth above;
  danger = the ice's groan.