# Beach Grey Strand v3a — somber house, the ELEGY home (faithful)

`beach-greystrand-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the faithful realization of the row's somber-house brief and the §3/§4 Grey Strand notes: A aeolian (CLEAN — no raised 7th, no flat-2), 76 BPM, the most benchmark-adjacent piece in the catalog. This file is also the HOME of the ELEGY motif family (motifs.ts §7.6): the activity lead is the ELEGY core stated recognizably — falls 5-4-3 (E-D-C), reaches back to 5, trails off 3-2-1 to the tonic with the decrescendo written into the accents, kin to overworld.xm's cadence. The bed is bowedPad ROOT-AND-FIFTH swells (batch-f's dark quasi-string) over a sparse sub, with a high softPad air-tone standing in PITCHED for the retired wind bed (correction 3 — no wind/water as continuous noise material; the wind's intent is a held pitched tone, not a hiss). struckPiano tone WARM doubles the line (the row's 'warm doubling welcome'; warm fits the melancholy over bright). Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the elegy soft-pluck line + its soft echo — one somber voice that reads alone over the swells. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: the warm struckPiano doubling the line AND a slow falling pluck counter-voice in thirds/sixths beneath (with a brief falling arp comp under the cadence) — the elegy harmonized and warmed. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is the activity tune gone APPREHENSIVE: the elegy head, dropped an octave into the bowed-drone voice and stretched to held tones over a low A/E drone, with a slow kick heartbeat and one far deepBoom per bar — the storm wheeling back far out at sea, real unease (NOT near-silence). Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump for active flee: the full ensemble crashing in — a driving snare backbeat + galloping doubled kick (ch10) and a quickening hat/shaker spatter (ch11). New rhythmic instruments (the kit), higher density, NOT danger1 louder. Dread is abstract — register, density, the pulse quickening — never chromatic darkening and never a literal thunder/rain/surf foley (those belong to the game's SFX + ambient soundscape). Fully diatonic clean A aeolian throughout.
