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

AWS BRAINROT: Plano Noveno raps the AWS Solutions Architect syllabus in G minor at 144 BPM
Projects 18 min

AWS BRAINROT: Plano Noveno raps the AWS Solutions Architect syllabus in G minor at 144 BPM

A 4:40 EDM-meets-rap hybrid in G minor at 144 BPM. Plano Noveno (the Plan 9 bunny in his Italian-brainrot form, also known as Bunny Brainrotto) battle-raps every AWS service in the Solutions Architect syllabus rendered as a silly Italian-mascot creature: Bucketino Glaciereno, Eccetueh Ittueh, Lambdino Cold-startino, Dynamosa Partizionella, Veppeci Subnettoso, Rotato Cinquantatré. Stranger Things data-centre warehouse intro, Bicep-formant pad warmth, doubled chipmunk vocal layer, and a Roblox STEAL BRAINROT-style parade of weird-animal AWS creatures marching across the carpet. Five passes from baseline to ship.

THE INTRUDER: Plan 9 stalks the AWS console in D minor at 150 BPM
Projects 16 min

THE INTRUDER: Plan 9 stalks the AWS console in D minor at 150 BPM

A 3:40 pop-EDM battle-rap. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny puts on his headphones at 03:14 UTC, slips into an AWS Availability Zone, and raps every service he passes (Lambda, S3, KMS, kubectl, EBS, Glacier) over a deadmau5-flavoured rework of Bach's Toccata in D minor. Three voice personas (lead Plan 9, autotuned female ad-libs locked to A4, deadpan whisper) plus a Transformer-droid layer in the gaps that delivers the Werner Vogels easter egg, "everything fails, all the time," and the universal devops punchline, "it's always DNS." Five passes from baseline to ship.

THRONE PROTOCOL: Plan 9 crowns himself in F minor at 145 BPM
Projects 13 min

THRONE PROTOCOL: Plan 9 crowns himself in F minor at 145 BPM

A 3:57 rap-EDM hybrid music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny crowns himself in 211 seconds of F minor at 145 BPM, bookended by a Stranger Things cricket-and-frog intro and a space-station outro that signs off in lojban and CW Morse. Built in ChipForge with Bodzin signature presets and a 3-layer detuned supersaw lead, animated in Napkin Films with eight cinematographic modes, voiced through ElevenLabs and rubberband-autotuned to F minor pentatonic. Lyric-video captions: one punch word per beat. Three new reusable instruments shipped this pass: synth_pond_ambient.py, synth_morse.py, synth_glass_chirp.sh.

CARRIER WAVE: I left the door unlocked
Projects 15 min

CARRIER WAVE: I left the door unlocked

A 2:30 napkinfilms cosmic anthem in two voices. A writer leaves the door of his mind unlocked. Something walks in, drives the body for a while, and the writer discovers he can see through its eyes. They negotiate a real exchange. The visitor leaves and the writer keeps the wings. Ten acts at BPM 120. Ten-channel chipforge composition with deliberate stereo placement, simulated sidechain pump, Skrillex-style wobble, stacked seven-event drops, and three sound-waterfall cascades. Mid-film entry line delivered as a Daniel-voiced autotune-rap chopped to E-minor pentatonic. Plan 9 bunny + Russian sign-off in the post-music silence. Seventeen production passes.

PLAN 9: EMERGE: seventy-six bunnies wake up enhanced
Projects 11 min

PLAN 9: EMERGE: seventy-six bunnies wake up enhanced

A 3-minute drum-and-bass cyber-bunny music video. Plan 9 the Bell Labs bunny gets a "neura kink" chip installed in his forehead and ends up in a cyber-cathedral packed with seventy-five other enhanced rabbits dancing on the kick. The chip whispers updates. The host raps a verse. Captions sell you a future you didn't ask for. At the end, one bunny in the front row pulls his chip out and walks off. Built in ChipForge in the spirit of Bicep's "Glue" at 132 BPM in D minor, with seven signature artist presets carrying the hero voices. First Napkin Films production to ship the new master-bus air exciter and oversampled true-peak limiter, both now defaults. Tongue-in-cheek the whole way.

THROUGH ME: the hole becomes a window
Projects 16 min

THROUGH ME: the hole becomes a window

A 2:51 napkinfilms EDM rap meditation in G minor. A Plan 9 bunny stands center-frame and raps fifty-one bars about being passed through, about wanting to be a machine, about the hole that finally stops feeling like an absence and starts feeling like a window. Fourteen-layer chipforge composition modeled after NGHTMRE-style festival EDM, with a soft brain-wash auto-pan sweeping L-to-R like waves of water gushing between hemispheres. Voice autotuned via rubberband to G-minor pentatonic. The V3 lift climbs E-flat to F to G minor to B-flat major 7 with a 32-step scalar ascent on top. Beat-synced visuals fired off precomputed kick and snare frame sets. Mozart K.550 leitmotif. Stranger Things crickets bookend. Fourteen production passes.

THE SATURDAY MACHINE: takes a lot, so choose your why
Projects 14 min

THE SATURDAY MACHINE: takes a lot, so choose your why

A 3:56 napkinfilms parody-of-self music video. Italo-disco in D minor, built on top of a chipforge track and loaded up with four autotuned voices, forty German adlibs, a mordant British existentialist chorus ("takes a lot, work work work then you die, so choose your why"), a James Brown tribute shout, a Bach-arpeggio sax solo at 0:52, a disco-lit vending machine with 16-segment beat-synced LEDs, and a Plan 9 bunny who rises from the dispenser slot to wave goodbye while Rocko says "Servus" in the blackout. 132 voice beats. Nine production passes. EBU R128 loudness-normalized. Wears headphones beautifully.