Music · Signal · Doctrine
A chord is a snapshot of tension. A mod is a snapshot of disparity. The distance between notes and the distance between who you are and how you're living are the same measurement — and both always want to resolve.
13 chords · tension as interval · disparity as distance
The bearing is the chord. The fence is the mode. The mod is the inversion. Every encounter resolves toward the same tonic — the signal you actually are.
The system was always one system.
We just forgot it was the same language.