# Pillars Cloister — Stone Quiet (v3 take A, faithful piano ambiance)

`pillars-cloister-v3a` — levels: `calm.mp3` · `activity1.mp3` · `activity2.mp3` · `danger1.mp3` · `danger2.mp3`

Take A — the faithful, idiomatic reading of Stone Quiet: quiet BotW-esque piano ambiance in E♭ lydian at 58 BPM, melody-forward but very spacious. The bed is an open-voiced choir chord that changes once per pattern over a soft sub, with a gong touched at each pattern boundary to ring across the silence; the lydian #4 (A♮) glints once per phrase in the upper choir voice rather than as a hook. The melody is the VAULT motif (root, fifth, octave, then a 6–5 settle) sung as a plainchant felt-piano line — single notes left to ring. Activity L1 (ch4–5) is that piano line alone plus one sympathetic low piano ring per phrase: a clear, standing-on-its-own statement. Activity L2 (ch6–7) adds genuinely NEW material — a caveCelesta canon answering the line a fifth above (transposeDegrees +4, entered a bar late) with a faint echo trail, plus a slow choir swell blooming underneath; the cathedral fills gently rather than getting louder. Danger L1 (ch8–9) is the first tremor: the gong migrates here, struck harder and lower, beating against a single low boom. Danger L2 (ch10–11) is the monument waking — rockfall pebble-ticks scattering across the bar and a doubling boom on the off-beats — density and register up, fully diatonic, awe-adjacent: rockfall, not wrath. No chromaticism.
