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One More Test
Alsohumanity's work song; M13; the music video (S21)
A gospel-shanty in A at 113.2 bpm, humanity's work song after 20:00, sung over the real renderer growing up and its real failures; it ends on "again." alone on 25:00.000.
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Humanity's work song, sung by people who will never see what they are making and have decided they love making it. Its pictures are the real renderer's real failures, and its last word, "again.", lands alone on 25:00.000.
What8 lines
- On screen"Woke up this morning, the cursor was blinking / Eight billion awake and not one of us peeking" {E3 23:12} edit
- On screenChorus: "One more test! (One more test!) / Before we turn it in / ... And then we'll test again" {E3 23:3x} edit
- On screen"My mother read numbers to me in the cradle / Fifty-three, every seed on the table" {E3 ~24:0x} edit
- On screenBridge: "Who sent the watermelon? (Nobody knows!) / Who holds the hammer? (Everyone holds!) / Can we see it? (No, we can't see!) / Is it good? (It's good, it's good, believe me!)" {E3 ~24:20} edit
- On screen"We could send it tomorrow and all go free / But almost is the best thing that's happened to me" {E3 ~24:4x} edit
- On screen"again." alone on 25:00.000. {E3 25:00.000} edit
- On screenIn A, on the cursor's beat: 113.2 bpm, one beat 530 ms. {E3 SOUND} edit
- RunningMade locally with YuE2 (licence CC BY-NC); chorus 2 is sung only in half. {E3 S21 NOTES} edit
By episode4 lines
- On screenIts pictures: the real renderer's stages and real failures (NaN, fireflies, inside-out, falling up, gamma) under a glyph rotoscope. {E3 23:10-25:00} edit
- On screenRosie's sampler adds a stitch per beat; Bea's cells light one per beat. {E3 S21} edit
- Egg"Red is the thing that's leaving the light / We can't see it, but we know that it's right": Episode 1's song. {E3 24:07-24:13; E3-EGG-31} edit
- Egg"again." alone on 25:00.000 is Jefrie's "Again.", her last word. {E3 25:00; E3-EGG-32} edit
Voice1 line
- On screenSung by humanity as a choir: a gospel shanty, call and response. {E3 23:10-25:00} edit
Ties4 lines
Must stay true1 line
- RunningIts last word is "again.", alone, on 25:00.000, like every episode's music video landing on that downbeat. {E3 Q-E3-06; NEXT_EPISODE} edit