# Magma Slowburn v3a — deep drone ambiance, the breathing stone (faithful)

`magma-slowburn-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the faithful, polished realization of the row's DEEP DRONE AMBIANCE brief and the §3/§4 'Stone That Breathes' notes: F minor pentatonic, 56 BPM — primordial patience, the earth's pulse measured in centuries, you a spark beside it. The headline is the BED: a two-bar sub-and-darkDrone BREATH cycle — a long swell across bar 1 (drone + sub entering on their slow attacks, rising) and a slow subside across bar 2 (the sub releasing first, the drone settling) — under NEAR-STATIC F-minor-pentatonic pad stones. The slow tempo makes one 64-row breath ≈ 17 s, so a single respiration is genuinely geologic; the bed is drone ambiance, shaped by entry/release timing and volume, not chord motion. This file carries the ELEGY family (motifs.ts §7.6) recontextualized exactly as §7 prescribes: augment(×2) + octaveShift(-1) — the elegy core dropped an octave below the catalog's usual register and stretched to twice its length, the pentatonic SNAP coarsening degrees 4 and 2 into the scale's big stones (deg2 → Ab, the same stone as deg3). It means geologic patience — loss on a timescale where it is just time; the deep slow pent line surfaces RARELY, once per pattern, entering with careful traversal of the crust (the activity section). Activity L1 (ch4-5) is that deep elegy line on struckPiano (tone WARMER — a dark struck-string an octave below usual, fitting the geologic register over the everyday warm/bright) + a soft caveCelesta echo: one rare voice over the breathing bed. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: a slow pent counter-line a fifth below in long pad tones AND a sparse unhurried pent arpeggio (the crust answering the line) — the rare melody given depth. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is the crust cracking: the breath gone APPREHENSIVE (the elegy head, dropped low into a dark darkDrone voice and held over a low F/C drone — the player's own respiration destabilized) with the FIRST sharp basalt crack-ticks and a single far deepBoom — real unease, the safe path shrinking (NOT near-silence). Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump for active flee, at the faster danger-section tempo (76 BPM): the full ensemble crashing in — booms landing CLOSER together, falling stoneToms like dislodged basalt (ch10), and a dense quickening basalt crack-tick spatter (ch11). New percussion + much higher density, NOT danger1 louder. Dread is abstract — register, density, the booms closing, the cracks quickening — never a chromatic darkening (fully diatonic F minor pentatonic throughout) and never a vent-hiss or any continuous noise scenery (correction 3 — the 'sulfur haze / deep heat' Depth bed is RETIRED; its intent lives in the pitched darkDrone breath, not a noise pad). All noise is STRUCK percussion one-shots (crack-ticks, stone-toms, booms). The named 'crust cracking' is flavor; the practical job is encounter music whose feeling is dread/urgency. Declared sparse: true — the breath cycle and rare line are intentionally spacious.
