# Pillars Cloister (Stone Quiet) — Take B, Eb-lydian piano cathedral

`pillars-cloister-v3b` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take B is the bolder piano-ambiance reading: the felt piano is the literal star, scoring the cloister as a quiet, near-pianistic piece rather than bare celesta plainchant — fuller and more harmonically alive (the chords move once per pattern through Eb–F–Bb–Cm) while staying BotW-quiet and sparse. Diatonic E♭ lydian throughout; the lydian #4 (A♮) is used only as a passing glint at the top of the F chord and in the free chant, never as a chord that hangs on it (no chromatic intent). VAULT motif (root→fifth→octave, 6–5 settle) is stated on the felt piano and answered a fifth above in a true bell-canon — the columns calling across the nave. Activity L1 is that chant + canon alone over the bed: single notes left to ring, generous space. Activity L2 adds genuinely NEW material, not the line louder — a slow ringing felt-piano arpeggio (the cathedral filling with its own overtones) and a choir bloom on each chord's third (the only thirds in the piece), so the space opens underneath the melody. Danger slows to 54 BPM; danger L1 is the first tremor — the gong migrated over, struck soft and low, beating against a single distant boom — while danger L2 is the monument waking, hard low gong strikes with booms beating right behind them and a scatter of rockfall crack-ticks across the bar. Rockfall, not wrath; awe-adjacent and fully diatonic.
