# Meadow Haze v3a — Drowsy Noon (warm house, kalimba; HEARTH home)

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

The FAITHFUL take of Drowsy Noon: warm house, a lazy kalimba (mallet) lead over warm pads + a soft sub, F ionian, 84 BPM — the most direct, polished realization of the row's style and the §3/§4 notes. This is the HEARTH motif's HOME reference statement (§7.2): the Ember Round (3-5-6-5-3 then a 2-1 settle), the only family that fully cadences, because rest is its meaning. Heavy-lidded contentment; standing still is a choice, not a pause. The calm bed (ch0-3) is the brief's two-chord I-IV pad sway (Fmaj | B-flat) with a soft sub and a slow inner voice that rocks between two chord tones per half — sleepy, never static. Activity L1 (ch4-5) is the lazy kalimba round from F-4, taking its time (8 beats across the whole bar) with each phrase trailing a soft-pluck echo. Activity L2 (ch6-7) ADDS new material, not volume: a sustained warm-pad counter-voice a third/sixth below the round AND a slow kalimba chord-tone arpeggio drifting underneath — the round harmonized and filled out. Danger is the §3/§4 far thunder / wolves working the field edge, made ABSTRACT and built as real encounter music. Danger L1 (ch8-9) is unease/the approach: a slow kick heartbeat (far thunder) under a darkening low-F tonic pedal drone with a sparse far boom each half — real tension, not near-silence. Danger L2 (ch10-11) is a GENUINE intensity jump for active fight/flee, not L1 louder: the pulse rate DOUBLES into a driving kick run and the kit crashes in (urgent hat ticks + a shaker on the offbeats), and the whole danger SECTION runs faster (104 vs 84 BPM) — the lazy afternoon become a chase across the field. Dread is abstract (register, pulse rate, density, the faster tempo), never a literal thunder/wolf foley and never a chromatic darkening. Fully diatonic F ionian throughout; noise appears only as struck percussion (kick, hat, shaker — all one-shots).
