#anatta

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ANATTA: a film in which nothing is held across a bar line
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ANATTA: a film in which nothing is held across a bar line

ANATTA is Song 20 in Out of Your Mind, and its claim is that there is no permanent self. So the claim is enforced as a law over the score: no note reaches its bar line, every one of the 96 measures ends in a breath gap, no measure begins on the pitch the last one began on, and there is no pad, drone or pedal anywhere in the film. The only thing that crosses a bar line is reverb. The picture obeys the same law, and so does the sound effects stem. CC BY 4.0.

EGO IS AN INCH: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the self you can never grab
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EGO IS AN INCH: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the self you can never grab

EGO IS AN INCH is Song 07 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the ego: an abstraction like an inch or a line of longitude, useful for measuring and impossible to pick up, because the thing reaching is the thing reached for. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Mussorgsky's grotesque Gnomus reborn as Eb-minor EDM, while a Plan 9 bunny, recast as the inch itself, taunts from just out of reach. CC BY 4.0.