Disconnect

Acknowledgements for the immense support, inspiration, and love from classmates, teachers, shoolmates, friends and famiy. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you!

Special shout-outs to

Joe Kelly

Steven T. Seagle

Jericca Clland

Dan Berry

Mikkel Mainz

Cecil Castelucci

Joana Mosi

Mads Ellegård Skovbakke

Peter yringOlsen

rik arkman

Dora rents

Petra Hauthorn Svennevig

Johan Kjær Svendsen

Albin Granberg

Astrid M. Stefansdottir

The incredible class of GS19

Pia Jønsson

Sara isabela ønsson

Siri Chentow

My parents and siblings

The Animation Workshop

LEoN FecHNeR

Love you forevr, buddy

2023 Magnus Merklin

Mgs rln

To you guys!

21! Welcome to the club, my dude.

Gracias, my dude. Kinda low on cash at the moment, but i’ll figure something out! Did you get beer?

‘Morning sunshin. i already stopped for grocries a whil back. Thought i’d let you sleep.

Two weeks’ worth!

Should last us one.

...So your gar‘s there lredy?

i borrowed the house last fall with Anna. ‘Thought i might as well leav it ther with Levi’s... His parents were cool with it so-Hold up!

It is but--

‘You been coming out all the way out here to play? It‘s quite a drive...

They were rally happy when you reached out about borrowing the hous. They really missed you, man...

You haven’t playd since last fALL?!

You kept followng me?

i saw you stopped posting but i didn’t think that... Shit, Anton. ‘The fuck happened?

Dude, i’ve been refreshing your damn SoundCloud every time i had Wi-fi! That last stuff was so tight! You really got in to the whol production-thingy!

Samples and shit!

i didn’t really like how i...

Did you see we got, like, 45.000 hits on the “DiSCONNECT 3” track?!

Which countries were you travling in actually?

Mostly South Asia right?

sNAP! i’m outta juic.

How is that thing still aliv since we last saw each other?

...For almost a year...

It feeds off my nostalgia!

This thing is a lifesavr! ‘Specially when you‘re off-lin for almost a year!

i’ll turn on the juic.

Get some powr on this bad boy!

...some chilly shit in here! Let’s fire it up..

You should see the girls ther, dud, i’m teling you!

And the music! All this crazy cool cuture around it--

--you can just feel the sound buzzing, like bZz-bzz-bom -bA-dom-bzZ everywhere...

...the dancig, everything! That‘s wher i trad my guitr for this ol’ four-stringer. Beautfu stuff, i’m telling you...

Sounds wild... It all sounds wild.

So... how ‘you been, man? Like... how ‘you really been?

i mean, have you been able to tak to people about... the whol thing? Levi...

i’ve talked to a ton of peple.

Here you go! Chill the fuck out to some good ol’ hip-ho! DOOM‘s still your fave, right?

...ast wish--

--wishes--

GLitches!

tWitcHes!

--hrr-HRhrm--

Man, i’ve missed this.

Dude, you have to pick it up again! i see how you‘re moving with this shit. You‘re music to the fucking boNe, my gu!

booZe!

We could make someth--

i reall mised yo--

Look, it brings a lot of shit with it, okay? i’m just taking a break...

i study some compositios from time to time, i’m just not...

hahA HAH

HAha hAH

Just no creating...

What about music conservatory? You’re still applying right?!

It’s nice listening to OOM with you again...

Were you at least with someone, whn you found out he’d passed?

WHAt!? DOOM’s gone!? When?

Oh...

Guess you‘re with me then...

Welcome back to realty, my man.

‘We sure that’s... appropriate?

i get it, man. i think...

Shit dude, i dont know-i’m just... i don‘t know why i’m so curious...

Is that caMiLLe?!

hoLy sHit!

Levi, you dirty fuck. What a photo though! Look at the energy in that composition. The lighting on her--

Dude, this is some artsy-ass shit!

We’re friends, this is weird!

That fucking hipster...

Look who‘s talking, Mr. ipod.

Nice.

You still touch--

Yeah man, of course. We all stayed super tight after...

--still iN toucH with her? hahA

Everyon’s really happy to hear you’re home agin.

Does she still sing?

Not so much... Not realy, no.

Okay, let’s just unsee this!

So fucking inappropriate, man.

Yeah, i’m just gonna go jerk off real quick.

Dude, hold up... ‘This ring a bell to you?

i don‘t think so. his is, like, three weeks before... the accident so...

i don‘t think he got to ring that bell to us.

Shit, that’s groovy. This is--

Dude, this is so... different.

Yeah man, he’s amazng.

Couldn’t

It

you just live in thes beats?

feels like he’s--

How do you keep playing?

What do you mean?

Never mind.

i just think it could be really cool...

...really beautiful...

To do somethg with it, you know...

Togther again.

i don‘t know... Getting cold here! Hit me with something! Anything, c’mon!

Heat your ass on tHis !

Sick, bro! Hell yeah!

i had this idea a whil back...

We got you bro, keep going!

He bought it right after we were up here last.

‘Told me he wanted you to teach him some magic skills.

And this is just a banjo! Dude, you‘re a wizard on that hing. Own it!

Time to pay it up, my guy.

Magic? It’s just a piec of softwar.

i didn’t think he was that serious about it... It ’s n expensive program.

Or mayb more like...

Slow down--

--Maybe? We don‘t wanna rush it..

Pretty snazzy, huh?

Great melody though! ‘Heard you humming it the other day.

Right. How’s this slow hand workin‘ out for you?

ust put something down. Anything! You can‘t possibly fuck it up, just... Chill out and tune in.

i AM tunng in. ust tring to assess how we...

Sorry... Keep--

--keep it coming. i’ll try minor.

Aight, just you nd L--

 don‘t know, ma... i think we need to focus on the composition...

isten to that energy, dude.

Alright amigo, get at it! i’ll keep plucking on this melody. ‘Bit slowr, i hear ya.

We can work out some interplay from ther.

Dude, this energ! Even in their slow tracks, it’s this fucking-i Ntentio n...

...in every nstrument. They really mean it, you know what i mean?

Will, have you talked to anone... ...since you left? ...soul of the world..

You seem... tired, man.

Cool it down, man. May be save that spark for the bridge? We mak the build-up proprly and then--

Right, you‘re right. Bit too excited. Let’s go cool down!

It’s MaRcH man, screw this! Is the speaker even waterproof?

Fuck this weather!

C’mon Will, man up!

Are you?

The soul of the world, dude... i’m trying to stay in tun with it.

It’s this energy... That‘s wher he is. Where we used to be...

That‘s that rel stuff, dude.

Gotta tap into that shit...

...45.000 people on Sou ndCloud.

It doesn’t fucking fit! Compositon’s off somehow. Too fast, too high... i can‘t--

Of course you can! Compositon’s clean, dude, it’s your energy that’s off. You’re not relaxing.

i know, you know your shit, so hit me with it! Light it up, my guy.

‘m right here, just...

You’re doing it! eep goig!

Anton...

What are you doing?

Will‘s back! We found your recordings and-- !

How can you do this without me?

Don‘t let me down...

You think you‘re good enough?

That you have what it takes?

Not tired.

We got an issue, man. ‘Know if we have any tools in the shed?

You too, huh? ...rouble sleping?

Aight, genius, what now?

Still think this was the right call? Taking it apart?

Dude, i had to!

Look man, the construction needs fixing. Shit‘s erodd. The rafter‘s clearly rotten...

There’s spar wood in the shed, we could--

You don‘t think roof construction‘s a bit out of your league?

i don‘t know, man. i thought... that mayb we could fix it if--

Dude, good on you for trying!

i’ll talk to Levi’s folks about it, no worries. Let’s just cover it up and get back to work.

This work, Will...

It ’s hard-to explain but...

Do you ever feel like you shouldn’t?

Like you‘re not really... good enough or...

...i don‘t know... Since Levi--

Dude, hold up.

...thes feelngs... Don’t you have it too sometims? That you‘re not really... you don‘t have what it takes...

Shit, Anton...

i know it’s stupd, man.

Is that what’s been holding you?

 know...

‘The fuck else would you do?

Listen, homie...

You’re the most talented, craftiest son of a bitch i know.

You’re God-damned destined for this shit, my dude!

Keep working that boring-ass speaker stor for the rest of your life?

i don‘t know, man, i just--

Dude, don‘t make me go DeAd poet’s society on you!

The “soul of the world”-crap again?

fucke!

The point of it all, dude! Art!

h show goes on, but you, Anton, ou can put something out thee!

Contribute to the play. Wht’ll yor contribuion be?

And believe me, you‘re 100% motherfucking better than good enough.

“thE poWeRfuL play” mother-

Apply

You and your moviepeptalks, man.

“That’s not a threa, dud, that’s a fucking fact.”

“Or i’ll fucking kill you.”

We’ll talk to Levi‘s folks about this.

They wrot “Good Will Hunting” in, like, their mid-twenties or something.

You know-

Let’s cover it up before it starts pourng again.

i think we got it down.

i think so to!

You can fiddle with your tech after. Let’s just try and get it down!

We ready?

Let’s go together with what we have first. We can always try and record our separat parts after and-- Can‘t fix a blank pge.

It’s cool, we’re just rehearsing.

You good?

ud, it’s recording..

You‘re rushing a bit...

It’s fine, just... keep up.

Relax man, we’re with you...

Stay with us...

i’m chill, ‘m chil, just a bit...

Whoops, falling out a bit ther...

Maybe a hair lower on the fill-ins...

Dud!

Try and follow Levi’s flow on that downbeat maybe--

MaybE

ust sHut

tHe Fc

uP and pLAY

WitH us , Dude!!

Dude...

For real, i think it kinda worked actually.

Listen homie, i didn’t m--

you were awesome!

Let’s...

..mabe try that again? A bit easie on the flow this tim.

Dude, it sounded fine! All five fucking times!

We’ll get a lot more done if we just mov on.

Let’s check out thos other tracks and--

Look, we could do a lot better if we layer it up and h eN merge it. Record our separat tracks, and then produ--

Produce your way out of it? It’s gonna lose its souL , Anton! Let it be.

It’s Go no soul, man!

And you said it yourself, i’m a fucking wizard on this thing!

ight, ‘tell you what.

i’ll let you record me so you can fiddle with it, but then i’m moving on to another track.

‘ll work out here if you need some spce.

i don‘t need spac, i need you to fucking collaborat!

If you can‘t do that, then fi Ne , we split up his tracks between us and work...

...seperately.

Well, i need a walk.

Let’s just talk about it later, okay?

...That

...Don’t you have it too sometims?

you‘re not really... you don‘t have what it takes...

This is a fina production from Graphic Storytelling, The Animation Workshop, VIA University College, 2023.

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stiLL crAzy AFter

ALL tHese yeArs

1971

Bob Dylan

"Meet Me In The Morning"

bLood oN tHe trAcks

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"Great Day"

Madvi Llai Ny

2005

Supertramp

"Even In The Quietst Moments"

even In The Quietest Moments

1977

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"Trouble Man"

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1972

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