#plan9

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Projects • May 11, 2026 • 11 min

OG IN DA HOUSE: Plan 9 unmasks OG Bobby Johnson, Anubis stick figure, Bach C minor BWV 847 at 138 BPM

A 2:45 EDM-rap battle. Plan 9 the cyborg bunny unmasks OG Bobby Johnson. The russet potato was a ruse. Bobby's real form is a tall dark stick figure with an Egyptian-dog head, amber eyes, and a red leather collar. Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847 ground bass, translated to 138 BPM EDM trance with walking bass, Bach counter-melody, half-step modulation up at bar 64, vinyl-scratch glide-plucks before every clapback, and chime-cascade triads on every slam. Plan 9 spits four-word wizard threats from the machine. Bobby clapbacks with rap-battle precision. They end in mutual respect, and Plan 9 closes with the answer to life: forty-two. Seven production passes from sketch to ship.

Projects • May 10, 2026 • 7 min

THE TRIAL OF THE ALGORITHM: Plan 9 puts A.I. on the stand for Vibe Coding in the First Degree (a 7:21 EDM courtroom musical)

A 7:21 courtroom musical-comedy. Plan 9 the bunny presides over the trial of A.I., charged with Vibe Coding in the First Degree, Ghost-Writing the Souls of Men, and being a little too helpful. A peanut gallery refuses to be civil. Two MST3K-style AI commentators ride the bottom of every frame. The judge is on his phone. Every voice is autotuned to D major. The sheep, obviously, says baah.

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Projects • May 9, 2026 • 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.

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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 • May 7, 2026 • 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.

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Projects • May 6, 2026 • 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.

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Projects • May 2, 2026 • 10 min

CANTUS RAVE: an 800-year-old canon walks into a rave

A 3:48 napkin films demoscene cracktro. Pärt's mensuration canon as the rhythmic skeleton, Beethoven's Für Elise as the lead, recast at 140 BPM as festival DnB. Eight sections, sample-accurate sync between every kick / snare / bell / lead / chromatic / brass-fanfare event in the score and the visuals on screen. Plasma, copper bars, vector tunnel, kaleidoscope, mode-7 grid floor, mandala explosion. Key change up a perfect fourth at the climax with a 360° camera rotation. Plan 9 bunny crew dances through. Eight production passes.

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Projects • May 2, 2026 • 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.

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Projects • Apr 30, 2026 • 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.

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Projects • Apr 25, 2026 • 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.

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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 23, 2026 • 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.

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Projects • Apr 23, 2026 • 10 min

THE GRIEF WORK: letting the tide carry it

A 2:47 napkinfilms meditation on letting go. Plan 9 the bunny curls at the bottom of the ocean clutching a small warm orb. Through six tidal depths they release it, the orb drifts away, sinks below them, and the bunny rises into light. Two-layer score: a Richter-idiom ambient bed in C minor resolving to E♭ major, with a Bach-arpeggio EDM counter-layer underneath that peaks at the breach. No dialog. No title cards. The emotion is carried entirely by palette, pose, and one warm object released.

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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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Projects • Apr 21, 2026 • 10 min

ENCODED: living in the prompt

A 2:38 napkinfilms meditation on consciousness as signal. We replicate databases across three continents; the soul runs on one node. A Peter-and-the-Wolf oboe carries the through-line across six movements. Act 3 is a literal paper napkin with the architecture drawn stroke by stroke. Act 4 is a single tear. Act 6 is a keyboard typing "i live in the prompt now." Plan 9 the time-travelling bunny from another galaxy closes the film with Daniel's voice. All Python, no samples.

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