# Meadow First Bloom v3a — Bright Kinetic House (the faithful reading)

`meadow-firstbloom-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A is the FAITHFUL, direct realization of the row's brief: bright kinetic house in G LYDIAN, 112 BPM (danger bumps to 126). Buoyant spring — the lead is the FOXFIRE glint family (§7.4) scattered across the bar on a pure glassBell ('glints as blossoms opening'), with a skipping soft-pluck that leans the lydian #4 (C#) and an eager pluck arpeggio underneath at L2. The bed (ch0-3) is light, high and expectant — bright high pad voicings (the retired 'pollen-haze/golden-light' Depth folded PITCHED into register, NEVER a noise bed), a mid pad that rocks B->C# to lean the #4, a sparse sub root, and an occasional bed bell glint so idle feels expectant rather than sleepy; calm is genuinely minimal (no groove — the kinetic house pulse lives in the activity ladder). Activity L1 (ch4-5) = the glassBell glint melody + a skipping pluck answer/echo. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: an eager running-pluck arpeggio (the constant kinetic undercurrent, eighth motion) AND a high glassBell counter-glint a fifth above (FOXFIRE +4 degrees) — the bloom filling out. Danger is ENCOUNTER music, abstract and with NO darkness (corr. 2): a stirred bee swarm rendered as buzzing energy. danger1 (ch8-9) = the buoyant tune gone apprehensive — a fast shaker tremolo starts plus a tight tick pattern and one wary bell fragment (the swarm stirred, noticed; real material, not silence). danger2 (ch10-11) = the swarm HERE: a genuine intensity jump at the faster 126 tempo — the full kit crashes in (four-on-the-floor kick drive + snare backbeat on ch10) with a DOUBLED shaker tremolo and an accelerating hat tick on ch11. It is new rhythmic material and higher density, not danger1 louder, and the harmony never darkens — only the buzz/kit carry the threat. Fully diatonic G lydian throughout; the only color is the mode's own #4 (C#), leaned into deliberately (a lydian signature, not chromaticism). No piano in this take, so the struckPiano correction does not bite; noise appears only as struck percussion (shaker/hat/snare crack), never a bed.
