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Projects • May 29, 2026 • 8 min

THE AUTOMATIC DREAM: a Bach Passacaglia EDM rap on whether you are a machine

THE AUTOMATIC DREAM is song two of Out of Your Mind, a Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. Watts called this one the fully automatic model, the inherited story that you are a machine, a fluke, a glitch that learned to count. The film states the answer up front, walks through the lie and the bleak, then wakes back into the answer with the weight of having lived it. A Bavarian governor voice raps over Bach's Passacaglia in C minor recomposed into EDM, with a German echo woven underneath, a cinematic SFX layer, and a single eye that opens at the end. CC BY 4.0.

Projects • May 24, 2026 • 5 min

CERAMIC: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on whether you were made or grew

CERAMIC opens Out of Your Mind, a new Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. The oldest question, asked as a beat-locked spit-rap: were you made, like clay in a maker's hand, or did you grow from the inside out? A Bavarian governor voice raps Alan Watts over Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain re-composed into EDM, with a German echo woven underneath, a mind-bell jingle, and a goodbye in Bavarian. D minor into D major. CC BY 4.0.

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Projects • May 8, 2026 • 15 min

BUNNY IN THE CLOUD: Plan 9 finds millions of bunnies running everything in A minor at 148 BPM

A 4:01 rave/house/techno music video. Plan 9 the bunny finds his way into the AWS cloud and discovers millions of bunnies running everything. ChipForge 148 BPM in A minor with two thematic hooks (Sandstorm-shape arp + anthem chord stabs) plus an 8-bar SIGNATURE theme that arpeggiates at 16ths during the climax. Twelve sections matching the music's chord cycle. Cricket-chirp Stranger Things intro. Daniel-as-bunny-oracle ElevenLabs voice in Snoop-style sing-song chant. 200 dancing Miyazaki sprites at the climax. Sayonara, usagi-san sign-off. Six iteration passes from baseline to ship.

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Projects • Apr 24, 2026 • 15 min

THE GREAT PRETENDING: every mask is real, while you wear it

A 2:10 napkinfilms cosmic meditation on Alan Watts' "Act as If Nothing Matters" lecture. Eight chipforge audio layers in D minor, through-composed sonata form with a 4-note leitmotif developed via inversion, retrograde, augmentation, and triumphant recap. EDM drop layer lands the song at 1:02. Plan 9 bunny dances throughout, choreographed pose sequence with smooth cubic-eased transitions. Headphone-optimized mix using Haas pseudo-stereo, Fletcher-Munson equal-loudness EQ, Schroeder prime pre-delays, and master M/S widening. Sixteen production passes. Bookended with Stranger Things crickets and a Napkin Films production card.

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Projects • Apr 22, 2026 • 11 min

TRANSMISSION: the signal is the self

A 3:01 napkinfilms meditation on the moment you realize you were broadcasting to yourself the whole time. Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny writes long letters to someone they miss, cranks the power, gets lost in noise, then strips the draft to three words. The reply comes back from an unexpected direction. Fourteen-channel ChipForge orchestral score. A three-voice rap chorus layered underneath. A philosophers' chorus of Alan Watts, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, and Vonnegut quoting in the margins. Ten animated easter-egg glyphs. A NASA space-station ambient bed. A Hitchcock signoff.

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