I said that word to my brother’s analyst, multimodal, and she thought I was reciting marketing jargon for big computers, the kinds that think with images and equations, but what I meant was music, the way a scale turns on its head if you alter a note. I would be in heavy Dorian rows with my editor about the correct placement of context. This sounds complicated, or does it, but only means when do you zoom out, tell the reader why they’re reading. Zoom. Maybe it was jargon. And then you shuffle the thirds and I start a Phrygian
phrygian, not locrian! so true, no one uses locrian. but you might try lydian to put the baby to sleep.