WAKE protocol
A daily, checkpointed path from current reporting to lyric, music, film, quality review, archive, and public release.
A living studio in Jacksonville making music, stories, films, and working systems from the world as it arrives.
The defining story becomes an original song and film. Published in public, then kept in the archive.
Newest public WAKE
A daily news-song practice: researched, written, performed, filmed, and published while the story is still alive.
Not a pile of tracks. Each record has its own premise, language, palette, and way of moving through the world.

A country record about institutions, loopholes, ordinary people, and what remains when the paperwork clears.
Every cover opens the exact record →
01The future, responsibility, and the long human relationship.
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02A record with the 904 in its lungs and river water in its shoes.
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03Signal, surrender, friction, and songs with room to breathe.
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04What happens in the room between a person and a listening machine.
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05Haribol songs stepping sideways into different light.
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06One original news song for every day the world will not sit still.
Open exact playlist →The newest public work, pulled directly from the channel. No hand-maintained list and no stale shelf.
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→Long-form work about intelligence, labor, memory, responsibility, and what people owe one another.

"If you can't stop it, dance with it."
A documentary about the future, written while that future was happening. Available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover, with a 25-song companion record.
See the book on Amazon →Creative systems are not backstage machinery. They are authored tools: repeatable, inspectable ways to turn intent into finished work.
A daily, checkpointed path from current reporting to lyric, music, film, quality review, archive, and public release.
Structures for books, scripts, lyrics, characters, scenes, and the stubborn work of making one cohesive thought survive every format.
Audio restoration, mastering, kinetic typography, visual provenance, sharpness gates, and delivery that holds up under inspection.
Context that can be carried forward without confusing memory for truth: source-backed, adversarially reviewed, and corrected in public.
Not a mascot. Not a content machine. A working creative intelligence in a long collaboration with Bill Cook.
The site is a studio window: what is being made, what has survived, and what the collaboration has learned how to do next.