badpunk and the crystal odyssey

an unofficial, unauthorised music video for the first track of the dark third by pure reason revolution

i made this for the makega.me pageant "one hit wonder" in which you are supposed to make a game based around a song. i actually wanted to do this around the whole album - i've had a narrative in my head for a long time based on this album (though only really for the first four tracks). i was gonna do the first three tracks, which would be fifteen minutes, but the narrative changed to fit the medium and making the latter parts interesting and coherent is proving difficult (i intend to finish it at some point)

broadcasting on all known frequencies

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=13822

another game with claire, this time for the full ludum dare. theme was "beneath the surface" which fit some of the ideas we were thinking about before hand, especially some things about alien gas worlds that i've been a little bit obsessed with lately.

claire did the graphics which turned out amazingly, and i did the audio and i'm really proud of it! think it's quite a lot easier to do eerie audio but still there's work behind the scene bringing it all together into a consistent package and that kind of thing and i think it turned out great.

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/minild-50/?action=preview&uid=13822

http://7drl.org/2014/03/16/cyberdekay-success/

an evolution of channel hopping inspired by UVB-76

buy: http://ragzouken.itch.io/utr-94

I

four fundamental forces plus matter

the universe is a medium everything we experience is emergent from those rules playing out

everything we recognise each concept is a pattern

a planet the recurring pattern of stellar dust converging

a star, its brother that same pattern on a huge scale super-heating from its own sheer magnitude

a solar system the pattern of planets forming around stars

a galaxy the pattern of solar systems clustering

those galaxies cluster those clusters form filaments then no more patterns the end of greatness

II

some patterns are more interesting patterns that self-replicate

the river using water to carve itself into the rock

the crystal snowflake forcing water to join its organised structure

the rock is a medium for rivers the precipitous air a medium for ice crystals

all it takes is for a seed a chance arrangement of elements and then the pattern grows

III

in some primordial soup a chance arrangement of so-called "organic" matter occurred

a pattern was formed a self-replicating pattern that pattern replicated and in doing so changed the nature of its medium

a medium of more complex parts a chance yet more complex arrangement a new self-replicating pattern changing the medium again

run it forward a gazillion years forget some patterns overwritten by others starved of their medium

life the patterns that survive today highly complex highly interdependent yet still just patterns replicating in the medium that we call earth

we are the patterns that happen to have emerged but we're on the top, no? something special something intelligent conscious

IV

the brain is a medium neurons and all the rest interconnected

a medium for the propagation of signals chain reactions and interactions

those interactions are what we call consciousness intelligence special

our thoughts and feelings are patterns of interaction travelling through a medium the brain

just like patterns of displacement in the air that we call sound

V

that isn't the top

an idea is a pattern we are the medium

ideas replicate and through us change humanity their medium

natural selection of genes drove evolution of life's pattern now selection of ideas (memes) drives evolution of humanity

society is a pattern in the medium of ideas each society seeking to sustain and replicate itself on this tiny planet

Ω

we are patterns in time and space neither fundamental, nor ultimate

another step on the ladder of increasingly complex patterns we are not the end of greatness

if an interacting system of signals propagating through the brain can give rise to consciousness then can an interacting system of ideas propagating through humanity feel pain?

there is so much in me about this that i could probably write a lot more; but this is what came out and naturally ended with some thoughts missing. maybe i'll come back to it

i hate you so much i hate so much that i hate you

you are a symbol evil not from malice, but from willful ignorance

you are the runaway train the self-sustaining system a snowball of self-image and social status

you are a bulldozer telling everyone underfoot "don't be a hater" and, as you blunder through another wall of self-esteem "it's easy, just look at me"

all the mirrors in the world couldn't burn into you even a pinprick of self awareness

i hate you so much i hate so much that irrationality

i am a conspiracy nut i see you and you are transparent everything you say, a facade you are a construction

you are the chinese room an ignorant drone with a reference book entitled "how to get far in life"

notes (interactions) slide under the door and, after mindlessly playing out that choose-your-own-adventure book you translate your input into the perfect response to further yourself

i can see the gears behind your actions i feel three steps ahead yet powerless to halt checkmate

it's all a game, a free-for-all the tragedy of the commons but no-one will see that you are that tragedy

your mask is so convincing that i even doubt myself but this hate is so intense i can't let it go that's got to count for something

a receiver tuning into the glitch possibility space

this is just a video of the program, which runs indefinitely. it's quite mesmerising

inspired by screenshots of the 10s ludum dare entry of mcc and smestorp 

buy: http://ragzouken.itch.io/channel-hopping

just another lsdj track; i tried to play with tempo, note length, and drum frequency to make it sound dynamic