# Magma Slowburn v3b — the deeper breath (elegy, bolder)

`magma-slowburn-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take B is the BOLDER reading of magma-slowburn (deep drone ambiance, F minor pentatonic). Where the faithful take holds near-static pads and lets one rare line surface, this take makes the BREATH the protagonist and the structural spine: every section is built around an audible two-bar respiration in the deepest register — a long swell up over bar 1 (the darkDrone + sub note-on, the env attack does the inhale), a long subside over bar 2 (the key-off, the env release does the exhale). The bold structural move is letting the danger SECTION actually quicken: calm + activity sit at 56 BPM (geology at rest), the danger section jumps to 76 BPM as the crust starts to hurry — a real danger-tempo jump, not the faithful 'geology does not hurry.' Calm (ch0-3) is the breath alone: the respiring darkDrone + sub under two near-static hollow basalt pads holding the Fm-pentatonic dyad (a hollow fourth/fifth, F + C, slipping the upper voice to the pent b3 Ab on phrase 2 — the bed's one slow harmonic turn). Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the deep slow ELEGY line (§7.6 home greystrand, augment x2 + octaveShift -1, the pent snap coarsening the 4 and 2 into the scale's big stones) surfacing on the struckPiano, tone WARMEST — the most muffled, stone-dark piano voice, fitting primordial stone over a brighter tone — plus one soft-pluck echo a breath later. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS NEW material, not volume: a HIGH pitched 'heat shimmer' pad breathing on the fifth/octave above (the §4 sulfur-haze/heat rendered PITCHED, never a noise bed — correction 3) AND a deep counter-line answering the elegy a pentatonic fourth below, half-buried — the chamber opening both above and below the line. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is unease/the approach: at the quickened 76 BPM the breath turns shallow (four anxious half-breaths a pattern, the upper pad sitting restless on the fifth, refusing to resolve home), a sparse far deepBoom, and the first dry basalt crackTicks — real material, the crust has started to talk. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is active fight/flee, a GENUINE intensity jump: the full low ensemble crashes in — a driving kick on the quickened breath, deepBooms landing closer together, a dense run of basalt crackTicks, and dislodged stoneTom blocks falling across the bar. New rhythmic material + density, NOT danger1 with the fader up. Dread is abstract — register, density, the breath gone ragged, the chamber waking — never chromatic darkening and never a literal vent-hiss/eruption foley (retired per correction 3; sulfur/heat is the pitched shimmer instead). Fully diatonic F minor pentatonic throughout.
