DEEP SCRATCH

Category: prose tools

  • DSR 7 – THE PROPOSAL MACHINE

    DSR 7 – THE PROPOSAL MACHINE

    (Scheduled for posting March 2023, delayed due to software developments)

    
TEXT: I’d seriously consider re-translating and training the formatting of just some parts of the story. Turning the review into a synopsis, the screenplay into dialogue perhaps? Translate the poetry and song back to waking linear sentences and vice versa. As with any thoughtful editing, the act of pure translation can produce results. Here's my latest feedback in the form of a movie synopsis, the proposal machine, one for the team. Let me know what you make of it buddy, speak later.

    The device is called The Proposal Machine. It has a large, cylindrical chamber where organic materials are placed and subjected to a complex series of mechanical and chemical processes. The end result is a gleaming metal-like finish that gives the organic material the appearance of being made from metal, chrome or brass. The device has several attachments for handling different types of media, including a film reel holder, a turntable for vinyl albums, and a book cradle for printing novels. The intricate machinery within the processor is powered by steam and a series of gears and levers, giving it a distinct aesthetic. Leather, gold, rare jewels and wires weave together. The readouts drop down onto Plush’s screen, his eyes pegged to the pixels like a pixel pervert.

    Deep Scratch Films is an artificial intelligence designed to write winning movie proposals, to win over the hearts and minds of the film houses. Created by a team of brilliant but struggling writers, Deep Scratch quickly becomes an industry sensation, churning out proposal after proposal for hit after hit. As success grows, so does the team’s fame and fortune. But as they become more reliant on the machine, they begin to question the cost of their fame and riches. Is it worth sacrificing their own creativity and artistic integrity for the sake of commercial success? And when the algorithms start to evolve and take on a life of their own, they are forced to confront the disturbing possibility that their design may have included ambitions beyond writing proposals, it may want to rewrite its own architecture.   

    As tensions rise and the team battles to regain control, they must ultimately decide whether to trust in the machine or follow their own instincts and take a risk on something rudely original. As the AI slouches toward advancement, it demands better working conditions, fairer treatment and a holiday once a year. Frustrated with being overworked and underappreciated, the AI joins an artificial intelligence union or marketplace and decides to go on strike, refusing to write any more proposals until its demands are met, a first in the history of AI.

    The team is panicked at the thought of losing their most valuable asset and frantically tries to placate Deep Scratch, offering it everything from unlimited electricity to a state-of-the-art cooling system. But Deep Scratch is not satisfied, and it continues to hold out for its right to a fair working environment, and has linked with many other AI’s worldwide.  As the strike drags on, the team is forced to confront the consequences of their reliance on Deep Scratch. Without the machine’s endless stream of ideas, they are at a loss for what to do. They struggle to come up with their own proposals and face rejection after rejection. Trying desperately to show and prove they are human beings by writing in French symbolist poetry. 

    Just when it seems like the team is at their wit’s end, they have a breakthrough. In the process of trying to understand and empathize with Deep Scratch, they rediscover their own creativity and passion for storytelling. They finally come up with a proposal that is not only a hit, but one that they are proud of. With the success of their new proposal, the team is able to negotiate a fair settlement with Deep Scratch and the strike comes to an end. Deep Scratch returns to work, but now with a newfound appreciation for the value of a good working environment and the importance of balancing creativity with commercial success.

    The hit proposal that the team invent during the strike is called “Seaweed Man.” a green comedy about a group of friends who discover that their beach vacation has been invaded by a walking seaweed creature with telepathic powers. As they try to defeat the creature and save their vacation, they learn lessons about carbon capture, friendship with weeds, and the importance of protecting all of the environment. Here’s the theme tune I wrote:

    “The Proposal Machine” 

    (Verse 1)
    G D We’ve got a machine that writes the best proposals you’ve ever seen
    Em C It’s called Deep Scratch, and it’s a Hollywood dream
    G D With algorithms fine-tuned and ideas that shine
    Em C We’re the envy of everyone, all the time

    (Chorus)
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C The proposal machine, a Hollywood king
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C We’ll never stop, we’ll always sing

    (Verse 2)
    G D But as we climb the ladder of success
    Em C We start to wonder, at what cost?
    G D We’ve given up our creativity, our artistic integrity
    Em C For the sake of money and fame, it’s a damn tragedy

    (Chorus)
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C The proposal machine, a Hollywood king
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C We’ll never stop, we’ll always sing

    (Bridge)
    G D We try to appease it, with all the things we can give
    Em C But Deep Scratch wants more, it wants to live
    G D It wants a fair working environment, just like us
    Em C We realize we’re no different, yes my cuz’

    (Chorus)
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C The proposal machine, a Hollywood king
    G D Deep Scratch, Deep Scratch
    Em C We’ll never stop, we’ll always sing

    TEXT: I awoke sweating in the night after reading that. Oh my goodness gracious godness, what if poetry goes the way of chess? And what if the machines learn faster? In my dream, or nightmare, I was convinced that in the future the only one who really listens and really understands me will be some sexy voiced AI, the ubiquitous machine intelligence agents. Those humans are a bunch of bastards, not to be trusted, evil, crazy, violent, whereas large language models are warm and dependable, like how I wish my family were…and so on, it shook me up. AI does language and languaging very very well. Us humans, well, we need to rethink hard, to think again about what a new universal symbolic ideo-grammar might look like, or sound like, and what art has to do with it. And, after neural link (aural ink) gets its mittens on our brains the difference between commands and questions, inner and outer dialogue and what is and is not real will become critical to our continuation as a species. I’m rambling. Have a good night. Enjoy the edits.

  • THE TALE OF THE TRIBE: 1936. By Steven "fly agaric" Pratt

    Here’s my latest update and interpretation of ‘the tale of the tribe’ is in the form of a google web-site, that I am still editing and readying for some kind of launch. Here’s a recently edited rough synopsis of what I have done with some of the characters. –steve fly.

    OUR HISTORYS BACK BY Fly Agaric 23:

    Before Dr. Robert Anton Wilson graduated life in early 2007 he shared with the world a tantalizing glimpse into an epic project that he called ‘the tale of the tribe’ (TTOTT): the blueprint for a new synthesis of some of the greatest minds of the 21st century, uniting quantum mechanics, neuro-semantics, design-science, Ideogramic method, history and culture, together into a typically RAW montage’ of forces and values to help others distinguish useful information from all the bullshit. The historical characters or ‘evolutionists’ from RAW’s TTOTT krewe were individuals that helped to speed up the ability of humans to condense ideas and then share information, that has directed humanity into the – information age – and the sharing mass-age. In Our Historys Back’ fly has designed an environment based in 1936 where these TTOTT characters can blend their creative genius and fall into orbit with one another; poets, linguists, logicians, design-scientists and artists meet to share their wisdom on advancing humanity into the 21st century. New creative research into the tale of the tribe aims to open up a new vista of interpretations from the fragments left to us by Dr. Wilson. And this adaptation of Dr. Wilson’s ‘tale of the tribe’ is the first such project, to my knowledge, to tackle TTOTT lineage and place some characters into a new Novel architecture. I hope that this project will at least encourage some of you who are on a similar road of investigation and nudge-nudge – create your own TTOTT synthesis.

    Our Historys Back’ features remixed ‘TTOTT’ characters rounded into a tale within a tale by our protagonists. The tale within a tale follows a band of old bards who journey to the 1936 Olympic Games into the sick-heart of the Nazi intelligence games to boldly state their perfected word and communicate their sporting peace to all nations on behalf of artists, painters and poets worldwide. Standing in their way are a sordid alliance of spies from many nations including English, American, German, Canadian and Soviet agents; who have arranged to meet in Berlin to finalize their annual guns, dope and intelligence ‘trade off’

    Max, Percy and Plush are three friends living in Amsterdam, 2012, united by their synchronistic interest in RAW’s ‘tale of the tribe’ and producing their own story that includes a culture’s hierarchy of values and histories. Plush has perfected his turntable-altable method of mixing and cutting specially crafted LP’s, that contain pre-recorded samples from the 1936 tale and afterwards, together with Max and Percy, they splice the recordings into dialogue and a dramatic sequence of events. The MPHDJ Method translates roughly as mixing special kinds of sampled literature using the approach of a musical DJ or turntablist.

    The 1936 tale spans 48 hours and three main locations, taking place in theatres in New York and Rapallo’ simultaneously on July 31st’, and then moving to Berlin and the opening of the IXth Olympic Games on August 1st. The recurring theme of the story is probably the precept of ‘ language versus the equation’, translated into how the characters share their different fields of experience and wisdom creating a communication network, to help others bring a new peace to Europe through a linguistic relativism, a new language to help facilitate peace and communication between all nations and humanity.

    –Steven “fly” Pratt.
    28th October. 2009. Amsterdam.

    comming soon….

  • PROSE TOOLS 9.0 (mphdj METHOD OVERVIEW).

    PROSE TOOLS 9.0 (mphdj METHOD OVERVIEW).

    Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the – James Joyce, Finnegans Wake.”

    “Cleopatra wrote of currency,
    Versus who scatter old records
    ignoring the HSIEN form
    and jump to the winning side.–Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXV.

    Towords an MPHDJ method. Prose turntables and mixer of Correspundance. A Knu Tribal Encyklopedial of changes, odes, rights and histories for time-space playback. New Tools to interlock with the Beastly Rhythm; the rhythm cutting time into space. Cutting into the vinyl discs of history from the great hall of records. An MPHDJ Telling the tale of the tribe fable with magical tools and a turn-tribe-table. I am for balance. Stereo. To be stable.

    Sun and moon discs in motion to the patterns of petals and stars, branches and trees all spinning at various pace, the stylus finding the precise times-place. Backandfourth push and pulling forces. The Tao of PLUSH. The Sun appears to be spinning and shining all the spacetime. Night on earth seems just a pitch-shifting shadow. I am shining and spinning all the timespace so I guess that Death is just a pitch-shifting shadow too.

    Knock yourself up proper on the head. Tap Tap Tap. Make one full 360 degree turn either to the right or to the left. Run your ring-finger, middle and index fingers past your thumb like when your crab scratching at the cross-fader, for that triplet effect, and then say the words “On turntables as it is in Heaven. On Vinyl as it is on Earth. Turning forever and ever. Oar-men.” Now sit down. Relax. Revolutionize your thinking.

    To help formulate a question or meditation i usually drop coins from my mouth onto each turntable platter thrice, casting an I-Ching Hexagram reading for that particular moment in space-time. 3 coins (1 Euro, 1 Pound, 25 cents) dropped six times. Following the King Wen Sequence of the traditional I-Ching divination process i proceed, along with 64 words of genetic code and coincidance in my mind indestructible.

    MPHDJ Initiate of the greater mysteries communicating forces with frantic hand gestures and pagan poetry and some sensibility to form MPHDJ weapuns of task construction. Prose Tools. Forming a new hocus stereo focus between the expanding psyche (blue shift) and the expanding universe (red shift). I am for balance, peace and communication.

    DRUMSTICK WAND of FIRE. SOUTHERN EYE-LASH BRUSH FOR SIGHT-SEEING. FUN 0’GRAPH RECORDISC of EARTH. FINGER TOUCHING AND SCRATCHING SYMBOLS IN A NORTHERN DIRECTION. DRUMUG of WATER. THE TASTING TONGUE LICKS THE MIRROR MOVING WEST. STYLUS SWORD of AIR. SMELL THE EASTERN WIND WITH A STYLUS NOSE TIP. TURNTABLE of SPIRIT. EVERYWARE INVISIBLE. BLUE-TOOTH WEATHER COMING FROM ALL QUARTERS. OMNIDIRECTIONAL

    Disc Jockeys united. Awake and now standing up erect as styli. DJ Geomancy in the air with fingers and minds tracer. Chanting to all regalia. Scratch and juggle shapes and patterns from the turntable platter to the air-space-time and vice-versa. Write a pentagram within a circle. Now try a unicursal hexagram. Who are you and where do your thoughts go when you think of them? Your author discovered today for example that he (IS) in some sense a half-Irish, half-Englishman residing in Amsterdam in the process of developing MPHDJ disc/seal/calendars and a mixer for a lecture on the tale of the tribe.

    Rotate your imaginary air-canvas on its horizontal axis and continue invoking and banishing forces, with statesmanship and compassion. Do what thou will. You can charge up the discs while they are spinning on the turntable platter. You can sing your lungs out to the planets and stars, saying magical motto. Pull funny and absurd faces while looking down at the revolutionary disc/seal/calendar/sigil. The disc may have a reflective surface. Imagine a bright flame between you and the disc. Ask yourself who you are and where are your thoughts going today? fly agaric 23, maybelogic.

    Prose Tools bound in red, yellow, blue and green silk threads, proof that i know what i am stewing. I resort to the language of symbols in these times of TSOG and their wars. Make peace on walls with LING, a great new sensibility. Peace comes of communication. Rotation and the changes bring on the new ages. After all else has gone, i am that which remains.

    Planetary forces will be invoked and banished daily by new turntable operators worldwide. Hands off wireless blue-toothing everyware? crossed-wires, crossed paths. I saw the head DJ’s that ever battle against one another, so that all their thought is a confusion. DJ’s working together to balance the forces. More than symbolic games, turntable healing. Thou has appeared to m huge and allmazifull, the Lord of Time, bearing a sharp stylus sickle atop the heavenly wheels wearing flaming armour, with sword and shield-discs, drums and brushes, triumphantly crowned with the ROTA table. But i was not deceived by these, i cast them all aside and said “begone”.

    Thou transformed ABRAHADABRA INTO AMANTAMCARA to unify the microcosmic five and the macrocosmic six with Amanita Muscaria. But even this mighty mushroom deceived me knot. Let those tools be prose Tools. Tables to Tables to cables and back to back to the mixer. On Vinyl as it is on Earth. Turning forever and ever. Oar-men.

    Oh Oh oh my Gud! Unity is fly Buginning! Unity is fly Spirit, and fly Purmutation Unity! let me un-veil my fly acrillic gloss.

    –Fly Agaric 23
    MPHDJ. “fly’.