#generative art

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ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing
Projects 5 min

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap where the loom does the dancing

ATTENTION IS THE LOOM is Song 06 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about attention: what you attend to becomes the cloth, and the rest falls through. The front and the back of the embroidery are both true, and the gap is the rhythm. This pass rebuilt the motion from scratch so the loom actually weaves and the camera dives through the cloth to its knotted back. CC BY 4.0.

THE WEB: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day you found out you are the web
Projects 4 min

THE WEB: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day you found out you are the web

THE WEB is Song 05 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about relationship: nothing stands alone, the figure is held up by the ground, and the dewdrop net reflects itself forever. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over a Bach Brandenburg canon, a web of voices that imitate and pull on each other, while a Plan 9 mirror-bunny answers from the other end of the loom. CC BY 4.0.

THE GAME INSIDE: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the cosmic game of hide and seek
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THE GAME INSIDE: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the cosmic game of hide and seek

THE GAME INSIDE is Song 04 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about the game of hide and seek that consciousness plays with itself. Life is a play. The central self is playing every part. The only rule is to forget you set it up. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Bach's Goldberg Variations re-composed into G major EDM, and the Plan 9 bunny answers back as the player who keeps finding him. CC BY 4.0.

ATE THE MENU: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day the map ate the land
Projects 6 min

ATE THE MENU: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on the day the map ate the land

ATE THE MENU is Song 03 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about symbols eating the substance they point at. The map became the territory. The page outranks the place. You wheel a cart of real food to the counter and grieve the thirty dollars of paper instead of the gold you are carrying home. A Bavarian governor voice raps it over Mussorgsky's Promenade re-composed into D minor EDM, with a German echo underneath. CC BY 4.0.

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

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

THE KEYS TO POWER: a Plan 9 rap-spit duet on why power corrupts, structurally, not morally
Projects 5 min

THE KEYS TO POWER: a Plan 9 rap-spit duet on why power corrupts, structurally, not morally

A machine-tragedy retelling of selectorate theory as an in-tune EDM rap duet. Plan 9 Bunny takes an empty throne meaning to be good; OG Bobby Johnson, the Doberman, Anubis, the System, raps the three Rules of Power back at him until the cage is complete. D minor, 132 BPM, hero lead from bar one, acid bass and orchestral strings, an autotuned duet locked to the beat, a Stranger-Things-cricket EDM intro, and a Plan 9 goodbye in Czech. CC BY 4.0.

FOR THOSE WHO ROSE: a Plan 9 salute to every human who ever rode a controlled explosion past the edge of the sky
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FOR THOSE WHO ROSE: a Plan 9 salute to every human who ever rode a controlled explosion past the edge of the sky

A 3-minute Plan 9 salute to every human who ever rode a rocket. No names, only missions, technology, and the families who waited. Composed in D minor at 124 BPM in the structural spirit of deadmau5 Strobe, with Holst Mars gravity, Elgar Nimrod crescendo, and Barber Adagio tonality. ChipForge from scratch, string ensemble, brass, crystalline lead, tom build → 808 drop. Narrator_deep speaks the programs (Sputnik, Vostok, Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Salyut, Soyuz, Voyager, Shuttle, Mir, Hubble, ISS, Mars Rovers, JWST, Artemis) and the families who waited. CC BY 4.0.

BUNNY MANDALA: a six-voice canon of Aum mani padme hum sits over Satie and Pachelbel, while Plan 9 raps a Sanskrit space poem
Projects 8 min

BUNNY MANDALA: a six-voice canon of Aum mani padme hum sits over Satie and Pachelbel, while Plan 9 raps a Sanskrit space poem

A 3:29 Plan 9 meditation. Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 and Pachelbel's Canon in D fused into peaceful trance, while a six-voice canon chants the sacred Tibetan mantra Aum mani padme hum, entering one by one like Row Row Row Your Boat until all six lock in unison. Plan 9 raps an original Sanskrit space poem over the top. Geometric lotus mandala in eight chakra palettes, lattice of tiny bunnies orbiting the center, the Plan 9 bunny holding the breakdown with eye contact and a periodic blink. Five-limit just intonation in D so every pure 3:2 fifth and 5:4 third locks against the drone. Nine ChipForge channels, six ElevenLabs voices plus OpenAI Coral, all autotuned to a D-major mantra melody, cathedral-reverb mixed. CC BY 4.0.