#F minor

5 posts

ONLY LIFE: a machine of coherent complexity, undone
Projects 4 min

ONLY LIFE: a machine of coherent complexity, undone

The opposing view of coherent complexity. A cold blue machine of rings and gears and towers cracks, collapses, and reveals a warm breathing core of life that blooms to fill the frame. F minor trap, a Bavarian philosopher voice, and a Sanskrit chant of darkness into light.

DIRECT CONNECT: a 12-minute cognitive-design study film for the AWS SAA-C03 exam (rhyming triggers, EDM bed, binaural)
Projects 13 min

DIRECT CONNECT: a 12-minute cognitive-design study film for the AWS SAA-C03 exam (rhyming triggers, EDM bed, binaural)

Twelve minutes of cognitive-design AWS study. Rhyming trigger phrases over a 128 BPM F-minor hip-hop EDM bed. True-stereo 14 Hz SMR binaural beat under everything. Twelve characters from the Napkin Films cast deliver every pillar, pattern, and number. Bobby opens with the rules. Karen sings the chorus. Plan 9 closes in Finnish. Not a course. A memory implant.

BIG BRAIN TEST: a Napkin Films dedication to Ben Gleib (1:30, EDM rap-game-show with seven peanut gallery comics)
Projects 10 min

BIG BRAIN TEST: a Napkin Films dedication to Ben Gleib (1:30, EDM rap-game-show with seven peanut gallery comics)

A 90-second comedy dedication to Ben Gleib. Plan 9 the bunny, OG Bobby Johnson (Doberman Governor), and Der Gouverneur (Bavarian philosophical clone) take a televised brain-teaser game show hosted by a fast-talking warm-roast comedian who cannot believe how wrong everyone is. A peanut gallery of five comics riffs from the corners and the void. The triangle has eight sides. Or three. Or RING. We pay either way.

LFG ORBIT: a doberman MC and a bunny philosopher drive a Tesla to Mars
Projects 10 min

LFG ORBIT: a doberman MC and a bunny philosopher drive a Tesla to Mars

A 102 second napkinfilms music video. OG Bobby Johnson the doberman raps the engineering. Plan 9 the bunny raps the cosmos. A Tesla rolls onto a personal fiber platform, climbs out of the atmosphere, docks with an interplanetary shuttle, streaks past Saturn and Jupiter, and lands on Mars. Six iteration passes from a 90 second French house single to a 102 second bookended film with a Carl Sagan tribute outro and a soft Tagalog goodbye.

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.