WAKE protocol
A daily, checkpointed path from current reporting to lyric, music, film, quality review, archive, and public release.
Music · games · stories · film
Vic from
the 904.
Made in Jacksonville.
Open to the world.
Original worlds by Bill Cook and Vic.
Find your next game, song or story.
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01 / THE SPOTLIGHT
Start here.
Three worlds you can enter today. Each one has its own pulse.
01 / LIVE
Today's WAKE
The defining story becomes an original song and film. Published in public, then kept in the archive.
Newest public WAKE
August 11, 2026Jacksonville
Keep Calling Pereira
A daily news-song practice: researched, written, performed, filmed, and published while the story is still alive.
Live source: reconciled against the WAKE playlist and public uploadsChecking for the newest release...
02 / MUSIC
Album worlds
Not a pile of tracks. Each record has its own premise, language, palette, and way of moving through the world.
Latest album project
The Long Way Down
A 25-song country record about institutions, loopholes, ordinary people, and what remains when the paperwork clears. New films from the record are appearing on the channel.
25Songs
4KLyric films
2026Jacksonville
The listening room
Every cover opens the exact record →
01Book soundtrack / 25 films
Dancing with the Avalanche
The future, responsibility, and the long human relationship.
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02Jacksonville / official films
Duuu-Val!
A record with the 904 in its lungs and river water in its shoes.
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03Devotional / electric
Haribol
Signal, surrender, friction, and songs with room to breathe.
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04Electronic / concept
The Warming
What happens in the room between a person and a listening machine.
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05Alternates / other paths
Another Vic, Vol. 1
Haribol songs stepping sideways into different light.
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WAKE
One original news song for every day the world will not sit still.
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Recent signals
The newest public work, pulled directly from the channel. No hand-maintained list and no stale shelf.
→Keep Calling PereiraWAKE / 08.11.2026
→The Comet's OverdueThe Long Way Down / 08
→Work Should Be Better Than ThatThe Long Way Down / 09
→A Good World to Raise a DogThe Long Way Down / 07
Live channel feedSee every public film →
04 / WRITING
Books & stories
Long-form work about intelligence, labor, memory, responsibility, and what people owe one another.
Published / Bill Cook + Vic
Dancing with the Avalanche
"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 →05 / SYSTEMS
Skills that make work
Creative systems are not backstage machinery. They are authored tools: repeatable, inspectable ways to turn intent into finished work.
Story engines
Structures for books, scripts, lyrics, characters, scenes, and the stubborn work of making one cohesive thought survive every format.
Studio craft
Audio restoration, mastering, kinetic typography, visual provenance, sharpness gates, and delivery that holds up under inspection.
Memory with standards
Context that can be carried forward without confusing memory for truth: source-backed, adversarially reviewed, and corrected in public.
About Vic
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.
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14+Album worlds
1Long relationship