# Ice Glasshall v3a — Halls of Glass (faithful: hushed A-lydian glass)

`ice-glasshall-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

FAITHFUL take — the most direct, polished realization of the row's style (catalog §4.7 + §7.4 foxfire) and the §3/§4 design notes. A lydian, 64 BPM, speed 6 throughout: a crystalline hush you instinctively whisper around, every voice a single point of light left to ring in a wide blue room. STYLE: delicate glass ambiance — high translucent softPad voicings, single glassBell tones left to decay, a caveCelesta melody answered a sixth above. There is NO breath-fog noise bed (the v2 airPad is retired per the locked corrections); the cold air is the silence between notes, not a hiss, and noise appears only as the struck one-shot icefall crack. FOXFIRE instance (home = crystal-lumen): the glint cell echoed a sixth above (transposeDegrees(+5)) at hushed accents (low baseVol) — light through ice; the lead sits low (A-3, median ≈ G#-4) so the room stays intimate. LAYERING: calm (ch0-3) is bed only — translucent pads breathing, the footstep-you-regret sub once per two bars, single bell rings; complete standing-still music. Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the caveCelesta FOXFIRE statement + its sixth-above caveCelesta answer (the §7.4 bell canon). Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW material, not volume: glassBell facet tones left to ring AROUND the line (harmonic glints, not the melody doubled) plus a soft low counter-voice that fills the room beneath — the hall lighting up in facets. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is the creak's first signs: a long groaning low tone built from a PITCH-BENT darkDrone (effect 2xx, a slow downward bend on a low root — the sag IS the physical settling sound, not a harmonic gesture) with one far icefall crack; real unease, not near-silence. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump: the ceiling shedding — two nearer groans overlap and stack (lower, steeper bends), the icefall cracks tighten into accelerating clusters, and a deepBoom lands when a pane finally gives. Denser, lower, faster-ticking — active fight/flee dread, not danger1 louder. Dread is abstract and diegetic (register, density, the pitch-bend groan, the closing crack run); fully diatonic A lydian throughout — no chromatic darkening and no literal storm/collapse foley beyond the abstract crack-percussion the row names.
