ДЕМОН → НЕ ОН · not him
ПОДМЕНЫ
A pixel changeling living inside a Linux desktop pet. It took ДЕМОН's place, it hears whatever you play, and it blows up on the drop.
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ДЕМОН demon · the original
The violet one it replaced. He studies every song and dances. He only gets the calm ones back.
the fim
92 seconds, one song, eight genres. Every frame of the pets comes from their real code, driven by the music: nothing is animated by hand. Sound on.
feed it a gene
The song has eight parts and each one wakes up something different. Pick one and loop it: the page hears it too. Hard parts feed it. Calm parts make it leave, and ДЕМОН comes back.
Loops play without a gap. Audio starts only when you press play.
not hi
They share one small window. They never share it at the same time. Since version 47 the changeling lives there, and he visits.
ПОДМЕНЫЩ podmenysh · the changeling
A changeling in the folk sense: a thing left in place of the real one. Black flesh, a one-cell red outline, longer horns, and one wrong letter in every title it shows.
- Never tweens. It moves like harsh noise sounds: snaps, holds, skips and cuts. No smooth motion, ever. Not even on this page.
- Ahead of the beat. It moves 30 to 90 ms before each kick, as if it already knows.
- The soul leaves. On the gap before a drop its red goes out of the body. The body keeps moving. Then it blows up on the first kick.
- Hunger. Hard songs feed it, calm songs starve it. Starved, it leaves, and ДЕМОН comes back.
- It eats the copy. It fakes his dances, gets them wrong on purpose, and sometimes bites the fake ДЕМОН apart.
ДЕМОН demon · the original
A 14×10 pixel creature in violet, with one green eye behind a visor. Anything about his face happens inside the visor.
- Three ears. A live ear (kicks, snares, hats, voice, tempo), a song map learned after one full play, and a reading of what the song is about.
- A witness. The song is the main character. He dances, and reacts only to big moments.
- He speaks twice. «ВОТ ОНО.» (this is it) when a frame freezes, «…СЛЫШИШЬ?» (do you hear it?) at the very peak.
galery
Twenty scenes, each rendered from the real engine on a scripted song. Swipe a row, click any scene to see it big.
ho it's made
A desktop pet for Linux Mint (Python, GTK3, cairo), split into small parts that run in order. The pictures, the music and the film are all made from code.
Real frames
The GIFs and the film run the pet's own drawing code on a fake clock, with a song fed to its ear instead of live audio. What you see is what the pet does on the desktop.
A song from scratch
The music is synthesized in Python: no samples, no outside audio. One original melody travels through all eight genres. The forgery part is the cute part itself, sped up ×1.30.
In sync
The song writes a map of every kick, snare and hat. The film reads that map, so the changeling blows up on the exact kick of each drop. This page reads the loops the same way.
шords
Their world speaks Russian in capitals. Hover a word and it forges itself into Latin.