# Crystal Lumen v3b — Geode Bloom (The Round): a three-voice bell canon

`crystal-lumen-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

The BOLDER second reading of crystal-lumen (glass/bell wonder, B lydian, 76 BPM). Take A states the FOXFIRE bell-canon LOW and reverberant (lead from B-3, a quiet canon shadow). This take's distinct angle is STRUCTURAL and registral: a true ROUND that accumulates voices, stated brighter and higher (the 'head all the way back, light pouring straight down' reading). Bed (ch0-3, every section): soft pad + a glassArmonica held tone whose vibrato blooms late + sub once per two bars + low glassBell facets catching the light — the 'refraction haze' rendered PITCHED, never a noise bed. Activity L1 (ch4-5) = the two-voice bell CANON: the FOXFIRE cell as the lead (glassBell from B-4), the answer a fifth up (transposeDegrees +4) entering two beats later — the foxfire-family reference statement, bright and high. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW MATERIAL, not volume: a THIRD canonic entry (caveCelesta, an octave down, a bar later) making it a true round, PLUS a SINGING glassArmonica counter-melody (a real second line, not the bed hold) and a soft glassBell/pluck facet-cascade arp — three voices chasing each other while a sung line weaves beneath. The lydian #4 (E#) recurs as a high facet glint (it is IN B lydian — not chromatic). Danger (ch0-3+8-11) is resonance shatter as too-much-beauty, zero horror, abstract (never a literal crack/collapse foley), and the section runs a notch faster (88 BPM, the ring feeding on itself). Danger1 (ch8-9) = the round GONE APPREHENSIVE: the player's own canon answer comes back a few cents SHARP and out of phase against the bed, with a single glassy crack per bar — real unease, the approach, not near-silence. Danger2 (ch10-11) = a GENUINE intensity jump for active fight/flee: the whole gallery rings back — a driving detuned-sharp bell PULSE every half-beat + dense bright clusters + crack-tick clusters ACCELERATING into the downbeat. New material + higher density at the faster tempo, not danger1 with the fader up. Fully diatonic B lydian throughout; the ONLY pitch bend is the danger bells' deliberate few-cents-SHARP detune (the named resonance-shatter intent — it sharpens, bright, never flattens or goes chromatic).
