#C minor

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SAME NERVE: an Alan Watts mirror-song where pain and pleasure share one wire
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SAME NERVE: an Alan Watts mirror-song where pain and pleasure share one wire

SAME NERVE is Song 08 in Out of Your Mind, the Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. It is the one about pain and pleasure: the same nerve fires for both, and the suffering is the resistance, not the sensation. So the song is a literal mirror, the same melody and the same words harmonised first in C minor and then in C major, while a Plan 9 bunny walks the nerve like a wire and learns to ride the pulse it used to brace against. CC BY 4.0.

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

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

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