Dust on the Patch Bay

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Intro: ambient swell

[Dust layer: tape hiss, fan hum, no pitch — 8 bars]

[Theme A: four notes, analog lead, 8 bars — motif stated, no drums]

[Theme A restated: lead alone, same four notes, slight detune — 8 bars]

[Palier 1: pad widens a fifth under the theme — 16 bars]

Break: low-pass filter opens across 8 bars, no new material

Drop: half-tempo swung beat, brushed snare, dusty kick — theme unchanged above — 32 bars

[Mutation 1 — harmonisation: theme reharmonized, minor sixth under each note — 16 bars]

[Palier 2: bass walks under the loop, beat holds — 16 bars]

Break: beat gone, dust and tape hiss, drone on the root — 16 bars

[Mutation 2 — octave: theme octave up, thinner lead, no bass — 16 bars]

[Palier 3: electric piano answers the four notes one bar late — 32 bars]

[Mutation 3 — filter: theme through a closing filter, drone holds, no beat — 16 bars]

[Palier 4: bass and beat return, lazier behind the beat — 32 bars]

Break: rack red light, long reverb tail, filter reopens — 8 bars

[Theme A: intact, as first heard, lead alone — 8 bars]

Outro: fan hum of the old synth, cigales through the open window — loops back to the intro swell with no seam