diff --git a/docs/07-ASSET-MANIFEST.md b/docs/07-ASSET-MANIFEST.md
index cbeaa34..e75334f 100644
--- a/docs/07-ASSET-MANIFEST.md
+++ b/docs/07-ASSET-MANIFEST.md
@@ -61,9 +61,11 @@ Frame lists approved as they are (A14).
 | Hidden Garden (prologue) | 1 chunk `hg-0-0` ([art/stages/hidden-garden](../art/stages/hidden-garden/README.md)): bench, path, jetty, the wrong reflection; layers 03/04/05/07. A second chunk waits for seam repair | 🟡 in review · ⬜ collision |
 | Jenny's arena | right chunk of Rusty Creek (boss clearing) | ✅ art · ⬜ collision |
 
-## Audio (to source during the jam)
+## Audio (synthesized in code)
 
-Footsteps (girder, grass), chair whoosh + hit, rover motor, crab servos, drone hum, Jenny engine + crash, fluid absorb, crash-dialog "ding", one ambient loop per region, one boss loop. Use CC0 sources only and record every source in `NOTICE.md`.
+Footsteps (girder, grass), chair whoosh + hit, rover motor, crab servos, drone hum, Jenny engine + crash, fluid absorb, crash-dialog "ding", one ambient loop per region, one boss loop.
+
+Every sound is **synthesized at runtime with Web Audio** – no audio files, so nothing to license and nothing that breaks decision 14 (no audio in Git). Recipes are plain data in `game/src/fx/sound/recipes.ts` (effects) and `loops.ts` (Hidden Garden, Rusty Creek, Jenny); the `Audio` scene plays them. Game code calls `sound.play('chair-whoosh')` / `sound.loop('boss-jenny')`; hits, defeats, the boss and region turns are wired to the game events, and the anomaly state plays the region loop slightly flat. M mutes.
 
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diff --git a/game/src/fx/sound/Audio.ts b/game/src/fx/sound/Audio.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..706a924
--- /dev/null
+++ b/game/src/fx/sound/Audio.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+import Phaser from 'phaser';
+import { gameEvents } from '../../core/events';
+import { LOOPS, LoopId, LoopState, loopVoices, regionLoop } from './loops';
+import { RECIPES, SoundId } from './recipes';
+import { noiseBuffer, playVoices } from './synth';
+
+const MASTER = 0.6;
+/** Bars are scheduled this far ahead of the audio clock, so a slow frame never gaps the loop. */
+const LOOKAHEAD = 0.5;
+
+let active: Audio | undefined;
+
+/**
+ * Game code plays effects through this, e.g. `sound.play('chair-whoosh')` (lane B: footsteps, swings, motors).
+ * Calls before the first input – when browsers keep audio locked – are silently dropped.
+ */
+export const sound = {
+  play(id: SoundId): void { active?.play(id); },
+  loop(id: LoopId | null): void { active?.setLoop(id); },
+  /** For debugging: whether audio is unlocked, which loop plays and how many bars it has scheduled. */
+  state(): { context: AudioContextState | 'none'; loop: LoopId | null; bars: number } {
+    return { context: active?.ctx?.state ?? 'none', loop: active?.loopId ?? null, bars: active?.bar ?? 0 };
+  },
+};
+
+/**
+ * The sound of the slice (#71): synthesized effects and loops, no audio files. Listens to the game events
+ * for hits, defeats, the boss and region turns; M mutes.
+ */
+export class Audio extends Phaser.Scene {
+  ctx?: AudioContext;
+  private master?: GainNode;
+  private loopBus?: GainNode;
+  private bed?: { source: AudioBufferSourceNode; gain: GainNode };
+  loopId: LoopId | null = null;
+  private loopState: LoopState = 'clean';
+  bar = 0;
+  private nextBarAt = 0;
+
+  constructor() { super({ key: 'Audio', active: true }); }
+
+  create(): void {
+    const manager = this.sound as Phaser.Sound.WebAudioSoundManager;
+    if (!('context' in manager)) return; // no Web Audio: the game stays silent rather than failing
+    this.ctx = manager.context;
+    this.master = this.ctx.createGain();
+    this.master.gain.value = MASTER;
+    this.master.connect(manager.destination);
+    this.loopBus = this.ctx.createGain();
+    this.loopBus.connect(this.master);
+    active = this;
+
+    const offs = [
+      gameEvents.on('player-hit', () => this.play('player-hurt')),
+      gameEvents.on('enemy-defeated', () => this.play('enemy-defeated')),
+      gameEvents.on('boss-defeated', () => { this.play('jenny-crash'); this.setLoop(null); }),
+      gameEvents.on('region-turned', ({ region, state }) => { this.loopState = state; this.setLoop(regionLoop(region)); }),
+    ];
+    this.input.keyboard?.on('keydown-M', () => manager.setMute(!manager.mute));
+    // Dev builds: F6 steps through the loops, F7 through the effects – for listening with headphones (#71).
+    if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
+      const effects = Object.keys(RECIPES) as SoundId[];
+      const loops: (LoopId | null)[] = [...(Object.keys(LOOPS) as LoopId[]), null];
+      let effect = 0;
+      let loop = 0;
+      this.input.keyboard?.on('keydown-F7', () => {
+        const id = effects[effect++ % effects.length];
+        console.info(`[sound] ${id}`);
+        this.play(id);
+      });
+      this.input.keyboard?.on('keydown-F6', () => {
+        const id = loops[loop++ % loops.length];
+        console.info(`[sound] loop ${id ?? 'off'}`);
+        this.setLoop(id);
+      });
+    }
+    this.events.once(Phaser.Scenes.Events.SHUTDOWN, () => {
+      offs.forEach((off) => off());
+      this.setLoop(null);
+      if (active === this) active = undefined;
+    });
+  }
+
+  play(id: SoundId): void {
+    if (this.ctx && this.master && this.ctx.state === 'running') playVoices(this.ctx, this.master, RECIPES[id]);
+  }
+
+  /** Switches the background loop; null stops it. The same loop keeps playing (only its state may change). */
+  setLoop(id: LoopId | null): void {
+    if (id === this.loopId) return;
+    this.bed?.source.stop();
+    this.bed = undefined;
+    this.loopId = id;
+    this.bar = 0;
+    this.nextBarAt = 0;
+    const loop = id && LOOPS[id];
+    if (!loop?.bed || !this.ctx || !this.loopBus) return;
+    const source = this.ctx.createBufferSource();
+    source.buffer = noiseBuffer(this.ctx);
+    source.loop = true;
+    const filter = this.ctx.createBiquadFilter();
+    filter.type = loop.bed.type;
+    filter.frequency.value = loop.bed.freq;
+    filter.Q.value = loop.bed.q ?? 1;
+    const gain = this.ctx.createGain();
+    gain.gain.value = loop.bed.gain;
+    source.connect(filter).connect(gain).connect(this.loopBus);
+    source.start();
+    this.bed = { source, gain };
+  }
+
+  update(): void {
+    const ctx = this.ctx;
+    if (!ctx || !this.loopBus || !this.loopId || ctx.state !== 'running') return;
+    const loop = LOOPS[this.loopId];
+    if (this.nextBarAt < ctx.currentTime) this.nextBarAt = ctx.currentTime + 0.05;
+    while (this.nextBarAt < ctx.currentTime + LOOKAHEAD) {
+      playVoices(ctx, this.loopBus, loopVoices(this.loopId, this.bar, this.loopState), this.nextBarAt);
+      this.bar++;
+      this.nextBarAt += loop.bar;
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/game/src/fx/sound/loops.ts b/game/src/fx/sound/loops.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ae5dfe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/game/src/fx/sound/loops.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+import { seeded } from '../anomalyLayout';
+import { Voice } from './recipes';
+
+/**
+ * One ambient loop per region and one boss loop (docs/07), as bars of synthesized voices over a steady
+ * noise bed. Bars are deterministic per index, so a loop sounds the same every time it plays.
+ */
+
+export type LoopId = 'hidden-garden' | 'rusty-creek' | 'boss-jenny';
+export type LoopState = 'clean' | 'anomaly';
+
+export interface Loop {
+  /** Seconds per bar. */
+  bar: number;
+  /** A filtered noise bed that runs under the whole loop: wind, water. */
+  bed?: { type: BiquadFilterType; freq: number; q?: number; gain: number };
+  /** The voices of bar `index`; `start` is seconds into the bar. */
+  voices(index: number): Voice[];
+}
+
+const chirp = (start: number, pitch: number): Voice =>
+  ({ wave: 'sine', from: pitch, to: pitch * 1.6, start, dur: 0.09, gain: 0.05 });
+
+export const LOOPS: Record<LoopId, Loop> = {
+  // Wind in the garden, a soft pad and a few birds.
+  'hidden-garden': {
+    bar: 4,
+    bed: { type: 'lowpass', freq: 900, gain: 0.05 },
+    voices(index) {
+      const rand = seeded(1000 + index);
+      const birds = Array.from({ length: 2 + Math.floor(rand() * 2) }, () => chirp(rand() * 3.6, 1900 + rand() * 900));
+      const root = [196, 174.6, 220, 164.8][index % 4];
+      return [
+        { wave: 'sine', from: root, start: 0, dur: 4, attack: 1.2, gain: 0.05 },
+        { wave: 'sine', from: root * 1.5, start: 0, dur: 4, attack: 1.6, gain: 0.03 },
+        ...birds,
+      ];
+    },
+  },
+  // Running water, a low hum from the steel, now and then a girder ticking.
+  'rusty-creek': {
+    bar: 4,
+    bed: { type: 'bandpass', freq: 700, q: 0.8, gain: 0.07 },
+    voices(index) {
+      const rand = seeded(2000 + index);
+      const ticks: Voice[] = rand() < 0.5 ? [{
+        wave: 'noise', start: rand() * 3.5, dur: 0.05, gain: 0.06, filter: { type: 'bandpass', from: 3000, q: 8 },
+      }] : [];
+      return [{ wave: 'triangle', from: 65.4, start: 0, dur: 4, attack: 1, gain: 0.08 }, ...ticks];
+    },
+  },
+  // Jenny: 140 bpm, kick on 1 and 3, hats on the off-beats, a saw bass riff.
+  'boss-jenny': {
+    bar: (60 / 140) * 4,
+    voices(index) {
+      const beat = 60 / 140;
+      const riff = index % 2 === 0 ? [55, 55, 65.4, 49] : [55, 55, 73.4, 61.7];
+      const out: Voice[] = [];
+      for (let b = 0; b < 4; b++) {
+        if (b % 2 === 0) out.push({ wave: 'sine', from: 120, to: 40, start: b * beat, dur: 0.15, gain: 0.4 });
+        out.push({ wave: 'noise', start: b * beat + beat / 2, dur: 0.04, gain: 0.07, filter: { type: 'highpass', from: 6000 } });
+        out.push({ wave: 'sawtooth', from: riff[b], start: b * beat, dur: beat * 0.9, gain: 0.16, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 700 } });
+      }
+      return out;
+    },
+  },
+};
+
+/** The anomaly plays the same loop slightly flat – the place sounds wrong without changing tune. */
+export const ANOMALY_DETUNE = 0.94;
+
+export function loopVoices(id: LoopId, index: number, state: LoopState = 'clean'): Voice[] {
+  const voices = LOOPS[id].voices(index);
+  if (state === 'clean') return voices;
+  return voices.map((v) => ({
+    ...v,
+    from: v.from && v.from * ANOMALY_DETUNE,
+    to: v.to && v.to * ANOMALY_DETUNE,
+  }));
+}
+
+/** Which ambient loop a region plays; regions without their own loop fall back to the creek. */
+export function regionLoop(region: string): LoopId {
+  return region === 'hidden-garden' ? 'hidden-garden' : 'rusty-creek';
+}
diff --git a/game/src/fx/sound/recipes.ts b/game/src/fx/sound/recipes.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..329a4fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/game/src/fx/sound/recipes.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/**
+ * Every sound in the slice, synthesized: no audio files (decision 14, docs/07). A recipe is a few voices –
+ * an oscillator or noise with a pitch glide, an envelope and an optional filter sweep – kept as plain data
+ * so the list and the loudness are tested without Web Audio.
+ */
+
+export type Wave = 'sine' | 'square' | 'sawtooth' | 'triangle' | 'noise';
+
+export interface Voice {
+  wave: Wave;
+  /** Pitch glide in Hz (ignored for noise). */
+  from?: number;
+  to?: number;
+  /** Seconds after the sound starts. */
+  start?: number;
+  dur: number;
+  /** Attack in seconds; the rest of `dur` decays to silence. */
+  attack?: number;
+  /** Peak gain, 0–1. */
+  gain: number;
+  filter?: { type: BiquadFilterType; from: number; to?: number; q?: number };
+}
+
+export type SoundId =
+  | 'footstep-girder' | 'footstep-grass'
+  | 'chair-whoosh' | 'chair-hit'
+  | 'rover-motor' | 'crab-servo' | 'drone-hum'
+  | 'jenny-engine' | 'jenny-crash'
+  | 'fluid-absorb' | 'crash-ding'
+  | 'player-hurt' | 'enemy-defeated';
+
+export const RECIPES: Record<SoundId, Voice[]> = {
+  'footstep-girder': [
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.06, gain: 0.45, filter: { type: 'bandpass', from: 2600, q: 3 } },
+    { wave: 'square', from: 180, to: 120, dur: 0.04, gain: 0.08 },
+  ],
+  'footstep-grass': [
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.09, attack: 0.01, gain: 0.16, filter: { type: 'highpass', from: 3200, to: 1600 } },
+  ],
+  'chair-whoosh': [
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.22, attack: 0.08, gain: 0.7, filter: { type: 'bandpass', from: 600, to: 2400, q: 1 } },
+  ],
+  'chair-hit': [
+    { wave: 'square', from: 220, to: 60, dur: 0.12, gain: 0.3 },
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.08, gain: 0.3, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 1400, to: 400 } },
+  ],
+  'rover-motor': [
+    { wave: 'sawtooth', from: 70, to: 92, dur: 0.5, attack: 0.05, gain: 0.18, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 420 } },
+  ],
+  'crab-servo': [
+    { wave: 'square', from: 420, to: 900, dur: 0.12, gain: 0.3, filter: { type: 'bandpass', from: 1200, q: 1.5 } },
+    { wave: 'square', from: 900, to: 520, start: 0.13, dur: 0.1, gain: 0.3, filter: { type: 'bandpass', from: 1200, q: 1.5 } },
+  ],
+  'drone-hum': [
+    { wave: 'sine', from: 220, dur: 0.8, attack: 0.15, gain: 0.12 },
+    { wave: 'sine', from: 223, dur: 0.8, attack: 0.15, gain: 0.12 },
+  ],
+  'jenny-engine': [
+    { wave: 'sawtooth', from: 55, to: 140, dur: 0.9, attack: 0.05, gain: 0.3, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 300, to: 1200 } },
+  ],
+  'jenny-crash': [
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 1.2, gain: 0.5, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 3000, to: 200 } },
+    { wave: 'square', from: 90, to: 30, dur: 0.4, gain: 0.3 },
+  ],
+  'fluid-absorb': [
+    { wave: 'sine', from: 320, to: 80, dur: 0.6, attack: 0.05, gain: 0.3 },
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.5, attack: 0.1, gain: 0.12, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 500, to: 200 } },
+  ],
+  // The old desktop's error chime: two soft bells a beat apart.
+  'crash-ding': [
+    { wave: 'sine', from: 880, dur: 0.9, gain: 0.22 },
+    { wave: 'sine', from: 1318.5, start: 0.07, dur: 0.8, gain: 0.18 },
+    { wave: 'triangle', from: 1760, dur: 0.25, gain: 0.05 },
+  ],
+  'player-hurt': [
+    { wave: 'square', from: 300, to: 120, dur: 0.15, gain: 0.25 },
+  ],
+  'enemy-defeated': [
+    { wave: 'square', from: 600, to: 150, dur: 0.18, gain: 0.2 },
+    { wave: 'noise', dur: 0.1, gain: 0.18, filter: { type: 'lowpass', from: 2000 } },
+  ],
+};
+
+/** The loudest a recipe can get: every voice's peak at once. Kept under 0.9 so nothing clips. */
+export function peakGain(voices: Voice[]): number {
+  return voices.reduce((sum, v) => sum + v.gain, 0);
+}
+
+/** How long a recipe rings, in seconds. */
+export function length(voices: Voice[]): number {
+  return Math.max(...voices.map((v) => (v.start ?? 0) + v.dur));
+}
diff --git a/game/src/fx/sound/sound.test.ts b/game/src/fx/sound/sound.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c8ff3eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/game/src/fx/sound/sound.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+import manifest from '../../../../docs/07-ASSET-MANIFEST.md?raw';
+import { LOOPS, loopVoices, regionLoop, ANOMALY_DETUNE } from './loops';
+import { length, peakGain, RECIPES, SoundId } from './recipes';
+
+/** docs/07's audio list, mapped to the recipes that cover it. */
+const MANIFEST: [string, SoundId[]][] = [
+  ['Footsteps (girder, grass)', ['footstep-girder', 'footstep-grass']],
+  ['chair whoosh + hit', ['chair-whoosh', 'chair-hit']],
+  ['rover motor', ['rover-motor']],
+  ['crab servos', ['crab-servo']],
+  ['drone hum', ['drone-hum']],
+  ['Jenny engine + crash', ['jenny-engine', 'jenny-crash']],
+  ['fluid absorb', ['fluid-absorb']],
+  ['ding', ['crash-ding']],
+];
+
+describe('synthesized sound', () => {
+  it('covers every effect docs/07 lists', () => {
+    for (const [phrase, ids] of MANIFEST) {
+      expect(manifest).toContain(phrase);
+      for (const id of ids) expect(RECIPES[id]).toBeDefined();
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('keeps every effect short and under the clipping limit', () => {
+    for (const [id, voices] of Object.entries(RECIPES)) {
+      expect(peakGain(voices), id).toBeLessThanOrEqual(0.9);
+      expect(length(voices), id).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1.5);
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('keeps every bar of every loop inside its bar and under the limit', () => {
+    for (const [id, loop] of Object.entries(LOOPS)) {
+      for (let bar = 0; bar < 8; bar++) {
+        const voices = loop.voices(bar);
+        for (const v of voices) expect((v.start ?? 0) + v.dur, id).toBeLessThanOrEqual(loop.bar + 1e-9);
+        // Voices that overlap in time: at worst all of them at once, plus the bed.
+        expect(peakGain(voices.filter((v) => (v.start ?? 0) === 0)) + (loop.bed?.gain ?? 0), id).toBeLessThanOrEqual(0.9);
+      }
+    }
+  });
+
+  it('plays the same bar the same way every time', () => {
+    expect(LOOPS['hidden-garden'].voices(3)).toEqual(LOOPS['hidden-garden'].voices(3));
+  });
+
+  it('detunes the loop in the anomaly state', () => {
+    const clean = loopVoices('rusty-creek', 0, 'clean')[0];
+    const wrong = loopVoices('rusty-creek', 0, 'anomaly')[0];
+    expect(wrong.from).toBeCloseTo((clean.from ?? 0) * ANOMALY_DETUNE);
+  });
+
+  it('gives each slice region an ambient loop', () => {
+    expect(regionLoop('hidden-garden')).toBe('hidden-garden');
+    expect(regionLoop('rusty-creek')).toBe('rusty-creek');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/game/src/fx/sound/synth.ts b/game/src/fx/sound/synth.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64022ac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/game/src/fx/sound/synth.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import { Voice } from './recipes';
+
+/** Plays recipes on a Web Audio context: one short-lived node chain per voice, nothing loaded from files. */
+
+const noiseBuffers = new WeakMap<BaseAudioContext, AudioBuffer>();
+
+/** One second of white noise per context, reused by every noise voice. */
+export function noiseBuffer(ctx: BaseAudioContext): AudioBuffer {
+  let buffer = noiseBuffers.get(ctx);
+  if (!buffer) {
+    buffer = ctx.createBuffer(1, ctx.sampleRate, ctx.sampleRate);
+    const data = buffer.getChannelData(0);
+    for (let i = 0; i < data.length; i++) data[i] = Math.random() * 2 - 1;
+    noiseBuffers.set(ctx, buffer);
+  }
+  return buffer;
+}
+
+/** Schedules `voices` to start at context time `when`, into `out`. */
+export function playVoices(ctx: BaseAudioContext, out: AudioNode, voices: Voice[], when = ctx.currentTime): void {
+  for (const v of voices) {
+    const t0 = when + (v.start ?? 0);
+    const t1 = t0 + v.dur;
+    const attack = Math.min(v.attack ?? 0.005, v.dur / 2);
+    const env = ctx.createGain();
+    env.gain.setValueAtTime(0, t0);
+    env.gain.linearRampToValueAtTime(v.gain, t0 + attack);
+    env.gain.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(0.0001, t1);
+    let source: AudioScheduledSourceNode;
+    if (v.wave === 'noise') {
+      const noise = ctx.createBufferSource();
+      noise.buffer = noiseBuffer(ctx);
+      noise.loop = true;
+      source = noise;
+    } else {
+      const osc = ctx.createOscillator();
+      osc.type = v.wave;
+      osc.frequency.setValueAtTime(v.from ?? 440, t0);
+      if (v.to) osc.frequency.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(v.to, t1);
+      source = osc;
+    }
+    let head: AudioNode = source;
+    if (v.filter) {
+      const filter = ctx.createBiquadFilter();
+      filter.type = v.filter.type;
+      filter.Q.value = v.filter.q ?? 1;
+      filter.frequency.setValueAtTime(v.filter.from, t0);
+      if (v.filter.to) filter.frequency.exponentialRampToValueAtTime(v.filter.to, t1);
+      head.connect(filter);
+      head = filter;
+    }
+    head.connect(env).connect(out);
+    source.start(t0);
+    source.stop(t1 + 0.02);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/game/src/scenes/registry.ts b/game/src/scenes/registry.ts
index fe32f04..069a124 100644
--- a/game/src/scenes/registry.ts
+++ b/game/src/scenes/registry.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type Phaser from 'phaser';
 import { AnomalyTest } from '../fx/AnomalyTest';
 import { AtmosphereTest } from '../fx/AtmosphereTest';
+import { Audio } from '../fx/sound/Audio';
 import { Crossing } from '../story/Crossing';
 import { Hud } from '../ui/Hud';
 import { Title } from '../ui/Title';
@@ -10,7 +11,7 @@ import { Title } from '../ui/Title';
  * so a new lane A scene is added here and the shared main.ts stays untouched.
  */
 export const LANE_A_SCENES: Phaser.Types.Scenes.SceneType[] = [
-  Hud, Crossing, Title,
+  Audio, Hud, Crossing, Title,
   // Dev-only test scenes stay out of production builds.
   ...(import.meta.env.DEV ? [AnomalyTest, AtmosphereTest] : []),
 ];
diff --git a/game/src/story/Crossing.ts b/game/src/story/Crossing.ts
index a27981a..c22ec76 100644
--- a/game/src/story/Crossing.ts
+++ b/game/src/story/Crossing.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Phaser from 'phaser';
 import { VIEW_HEIGHT, VIEW_WIDTH } from '../core/viewport';
+import { sound } from '../fx/sound/Audio';
 import { crashWindow } from '../ui/crashWindow';
 import { CrossingSequence } from './crossingSequence';
 
@@ -45,12 +46,14 @@ export class Crossing extends Phaser.Scene {
     });
     this.run.start();
     this.events.once('freeze', () => { if (this.scene.isActive(frozen)) this.scene.pause(frozen); });
+    this.events.once('dialog', () => sound.play('crash-ding'));
     this.scene.bringToTop();
   }
 
   update(_time: number, delta: number): void {
     const phase = this.run.update(delta);
     if (phase === 'freeze' || phase === 'dialog') this.events.emit('freeze');
+    if (phase === 'dialog') this.events.emit('dialog');
     this.flash.setVisible(phase === 'hit');
     this.dim.setVisible(phase === 'freeze' || phase === 'dialog');
     this.cracks.setVisible(phase === 'freeze' || phase === 'dialog');
diff --git a/game/src/ui/Title.ts b/game/src/ui/Title.ts
index 158029f..8c636ea 100644
--- a/game/src/ui/Title.ts
+++ b/game/src/ui/Title.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import Phaser from 'phaser';
 import { VIEW_HEIGHT, VIEW_WIDTH } from '../core/viewport';
+import { sound } from '../fx/sound/Audio';
 import { CREDITS, MENU, moveSelection, SUBTITLE, TITLE } from './credits';
 
 const C = { bg: 0x101820, text: '#e8e4dc', dim: '#7d8a90', pick: '#46d1b4' };
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ export class Title extends Phaser.Scene {
     if (MENU[this.choice] === 'Credits') return this.showCredits(true);
     if (this.scene.isPaused(STAGE)) this.scene.resume(STAGE);
     this.scene.setVisible(true, HUD);
+    sound.loop('hidden-garden'); // the slice opens in the prologue garden; the first key press unlocked audio
     this.scene.stop();
   }