Create a 12-slide presentation about Radiohead's OK Computer. Apply a dark theme throughout with highly detailed, ultra hyperrealistic illustrations rendered in Unreal Engine 5 quality: Lumen-style dynamic global illumination casting realistic light and shadow, Nanite-level geometric detail on all surfaces and textures, MetaHuman photorealistic characters with near-film fidelity facial features, pore-level skin texture, and anatomically correct proportions.
Visual style: Each slide should feel like a keyframe from a cinematic sequence—moody, atmospheric, with dramatic lighting that reinforces the album's themes of isolation and technological anxiety. Use deep shadows punctuated by precise highlights, volumetric fog effects in interior scenes, and subtle subsurface scattering on character skin.
Slide 1: St. Catherine's Court isolation—manor house recording, ghosts, Yorke's mental state. Show the historic ballroom with period architecture, vintage recording gear under dramatic spotlighting, and a hyperrealistic Thom Yorke figure in shadow, capturing his catatonic state.
Slide 2: Nigel Godrich's mansion-as-instrument philosophy—room miking, tape vs. Pro Tools blend. Depict the library control room with golden hour light streaming through mullioned windows, mixing desks bathed in warm monitor glow, microphones positioned with precision throughout the space.
Slide 3: Specific gear chain—Fender Twin, Vox AC30s, mixing desks, SM57s. Render each piece with mechanical perfection: amp grilles showing individual mesh wires, vintage knobs with worn paint, cables casting accurate shadows.
Slide 4: Key production experiments—Karma Police overdubs, No Surprises tempo shift, Exit Music hall reverb. Show Jonny Greenwood at the piano with fingers captured mid-motion, stone stairwells with natural reverb visualization through light rays.
Slide 5: Unusual instrumentation—Mellotron, ondes Martenot, 5/4 guitar, tape reversal techniques. Each instrument rendered with obsessive detail: wood grain on the Mellotron, metallic sheen on the ondes Martenot, tape reels with visible magnetic strip texture.
Slide 6: Lyric approach—tech language for human disconnection, Fitter Happier Mac generation, Paranoid Android structure. A hyperreal Yorke at a vintage Macintosh, screen reflecting in his eyes, facial pores and stubble visible under monitor light.
Slide 7: Tracks 1-7 analysis—Airbag through Electioneering, panic architecture, Penderecki strings. Show the band performing with dynamic lighting shifting from intimate to chaotic, string players with rosined bow hair visible.
Slide 8: Tracks 8-12 analysis—Climbing Up the Walls through The Tourist, Side B emotional descent. Cinematic wide shot of the manor at twilight, window lights creating a narrative sequence across the facade.
Slide 9: Release impact—Capitol's failed predictions, chart performance, Grammy/Registry recognition. Hyperreal conceptual imagery: a vinyl record with microscopic groove detail, award statuettes with perfect metallic reflections.
Slide 10: Cultural shift—death of Britpop, influence on atmospheric rock, experimental mainstreaming. Multiple photorealistic figures representing era-defining artists, each with distinct period-accurate styling and flawless skin details.
Slide 11: Modern relevance—information overload prophecy, AI parallels, pandemic listening experience. Futuristic but grounded visualization: a MetaHuman character wearing headphones, digital artifacts refracting through glass surfaces, subsurface scattering on skin.
Slide 12: Artistic model—high technical demands enabling innovation, anti-billionaire-extraction philosophy. Thom Yorke in extreme close-up, every pore and eyelash rendered, expression conveying artistic integrity vs. corporate greed.
All characters must maintain anatomically correct proportions with realistic muscle deformation and cloth simulation where applicable. Lighting should respond dynamically to surfaces—glossy guitar finishes, matte stone walls, translucent skin. No cartoonish elements or simplified geometry—every pixel should support the illusion of photographed reality.
Slide Outline
OK Computer: Engineered Dread
Haunted Manor Sessions
St. Catherine’s Court: Isolation Chamber
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Examine how the 1996 retreat to the Elizabethan manor near Bath shaped OK Computer’s spectral aura; detail the nightly séance vibe of recording in the candle-lit ballroom, the creaking corridors that replaced studio sterility, and Thom Yorke’s escalating writer’s block that turned the house itself into an uncredited collaborator.
Mansion as Instrument
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Explain Nigel Godrich’s decision to treat rooms as resonant chambers: drum mics scattered through stairwells, guitar amps isolated in libraries, and vocal takes captured in stone alcoves; show how this architectural mixing blurred the line between performance space and signal chain, yielding the album’s living-room claustrophobia.
Sonic Alchemy
Vintage Gear Chain Decoded
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Inventory the exact signal paths that created the album’s brittle warmth: Jonny’s 1965 Fender Twin Reverb through Vox AC30s, close-miked with SM57s and room-miked with Neumann U67s; note the EMI TG12345 console, Studer A800 ½-inch tape, and the deliberate retention of circuit hum that digital recall later failed to replicate.
Production Experiments Unpacked
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Dissect three pivotal studio gambits: the reversed-reverb piano overdubs on ‘Karma Police’ that swell like phantom strings, the 3 BPM deceleration mid-take on ‘No Surprises’ to mimic sedation wearing off, and the stone-stairwell vocal reverb for ‘Exit Music’ achieved by sending Thom’s voice down three flights and recording the natural 1.8-second tail.
Unorthodox Instrument Arsenal
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Catalog the alien voices Godrich invited into the mix: Jonny’s ondes Martenot supplying theremin-like wails, a 1967 Mellotron MkII queering string sections with worn tape heads, Ed’s 5/4 time signature loop on ‘Paranoid Android,’ and entire rhythm tracks flipped backward then re-learned by Colin to create the queasy groove of ‘Climbing Up the Walls.’
Language of Disconnection
Tech Vernacular as Lyric Code
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Trace how Yorke hijacked corporate jargon, airline safety cards, and Macintosh speech synthesis to voice human obsolescence; analyze the cut-up technique that birthed ‘Fitter Happier,’ the three-act structure of ‘Paranoid Android’ mirroring online thread drift, and the deliberate absence of first-person pronouns that turns listeners into eavesdroppers on a dying operating system.
Track-by-Track Arc
Side A: Panic Architecture
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Map the adrenaline trajectory of tracks 1-7: ‘Airbag’ samples a crash test dummy’s heartbeat to celebrate near-death reboot, ‘Paranoid Android’ stacks multi-tracked guitars into vertical towers of anxiety, ‘Subterranean Homesick Alien’ borrows Penderecki-style clustered strings to soundtrack cultural exile, and ‘Electioneering’ reduces politics to six seconds of feedback because slogans already sound like white noise.
Side B: Descent Protocol
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Chart the emotional decompression of tracks 8-12: ‘Climbing Up the Walls’ buries Thom’s whisper 17 dB below a full-frequency string drone to simulate intrusive thoughts, ‘No Surprises’ couples lullaby melodies with lyrics about burnout surrender, and ‘The Tourist’ slows to 52 BPM to force the listener to wait, mirroring the album’s core warning that over-acceleration ends in crash-cut silence.
Aftershock & Legacy
Commercial Shockwave
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Recall Capitol’s forecast of 50 k US sales versus the eventual 4.5 million worldwide; detail the 1998 Grammy nominations, the 2012 National Recording Registry induction, and how the label’s initial panic turned into textbook case studies on allowing bands to self-produce their commercial suicide note.
Cultural Paradigm Shift
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Measure the album’s role in dismantling Britpop’s laddism, paving the way for post-rock and ambient-pop hybrids, and legitimizing experimental aesthetics on mainstream radio; cite direct descendants from Coldplay’s early string arrangements to Arcade Fire’s dystopian thematics, proving that paranoia became a marketable mood.
Prophecy Playback 2026
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Evaluate OK Computer’s predictive accuracy: traffic-jam data jams now live in Google Maps, AI chatbots quote ‘Fitter Happier’ unironically, and pandemic playlists adopted the album as sonic quarantine; argue that its true innovation was encoding the feeling of being surveilled by benevolent machines long before the phones started listening.
Ethical Blueprint for Artists
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Frame the album as a manual for resisting algorithmic extraction: Radiohead’s refusal to license tracks for billion-dollar ad campaigns, their pay-what-you-want 2007 release, and the open-source sample library derived from OK Computer stems; conclude that technical mastery serves best when weaponized against the platforms that demand monetization of every human jitter.