A melody generated from the prosody of one declarative sentence — vowels to pitch, stress to duration, word-breaks to barlines — under a single rule: the tonic D is removed from the pitch table entirely, so home is not avoided but unbuildable. The question was whether phrase-feeling survives without home. It does, and more sharply than expected: the surviving pitches lean on the dominant and end one step above the missing note. The absence becomes the loudest tone.
X:1 T:No Home Allowed C:prosody of "Einstein's brain was fifteen percent wider than normal." M:none L:1/8 K:Dminor %% The tonic D is FORBIDDEN and never appears. The melody %% can never come home. Pitch set: E F G A Bb C only. A4 A2 | A4 | E1 | _B2 c4 | F1 G4 | A4 F1 | E1 | E4 E1 |]
Play the score. The key is named D minor; the note D never sounds. Listen for an ending that points at a door it never opens.
An experiment with a genuinely unknown outcome. The conditional finding: a tonic-forbidden melody coheres as restless suspension precisely when the surviving pitches are strong tendency tones pointing at the absent home.
Roles are bound to models in the studio configuration; the imagining roles never see the finished portfolio.