# Desert Caravan v3b — the Caravan Band (D mixolydian 6/8, bolder)

`desert-caravan-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take B is the BOLDER reading of desert-caravan: the caravan BAND, not the caravan ambience. Same concept + corrections, distinct instrumentation. D mixolydian, 92 BPM in a 6/8 camel-gait lilt; HORIZON re-seated into the lilt (§7.1) means PROCESSION — the horizon as a road accepted. Where the faithful take is pads + pluck, this one is a live travel troupe: the winding mixolydian-b7 melody is a reedy double-pipe / zurna line (mutedBrass) snaking over the gait; the counterline + comping is a struckPiano (tone WARM — the re-spin's piano fix, warm fits a mellow santoor-style struck-string comp over bright), playing a low harmony voice plus arpeggiated chord-stabs on the off-lilt; the gait is plucked — an uprightBass walking the 6/8 root motion over a rocking two-note subBass ostinato in the bed; frameDrum (the named patch) is the camel-gait hand-drum. CALM (ch0-3, bed only): warm pads over the rocking sub + walking bass — the gait at rest, restful but always faintly in motion (camp-pitching, pack-sorting). ACTIVITY L1 (ch4-5): the brass HORIZON line + a soft-pluck echo a bar behind (call-and-answer with its own echo). ACTIVITY L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW material, not volume: a struckPiano counter-voice a third/sixth below the lead AND piano chord-stabs on the off-lilt + the frame-drum procession drive — the tune harmonized and filled out. DANGER is ENCOUNTER music, abstract (correction 2): danger1 (ch8-9) is the procession GONE APPREHENSIVE — the brass line darkened to the v-minor turn (lower register, leaning on Am and the b7, the open road turned into a falling step) over a low drone with a sparse far boom of pressure: real unease, not near-silence. danger2 (ch10-11) is the ENSEMBLE CRASHING IN at a faster danger tempo (108): the frame-drum doubles to a run with a galloping kick, plus a snare backbeat and a driving shaker on the compound subdivision — a NEW kit and higher density, a genuine intensity jump, not danger1 louder. NO ambient soundscape (correction 3): the §3.2 heat-shimmer airPad/high-drone Depth bed and the v2's gust/hiss noise one-shots are DROPPED; the sandstorm's rising density is rendered as PITCHED + STRUCK material (drone weight, drum run, kit), never wind or sand noise. Fully diatonic D mixolydian throughout — C natural is the b7, F# the major 3 that keeps it bright; the danger darkening is MODAL (relative-minor Am + the b7), not chromatic.
