01 · RELEASEDees Ploat Blèft SpeleTen Antwerp-dialect songs from the fairground, beach and street
Artist project · Bjorn Claes
Connected works in sound, language and image.
Aikonaut is the artistic music project of Bjorn Claes — a growing catalogue of interconnected worlds shaped through sound, language, image and digital media.
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Dees Ploat Blèft Spele
Ten Antwerp-dialect songs from the fairground, the beach, the street and the plastic chair that outlasts the night.
Artist statement · fragment
“The work changes form — record, ritual, report, story — but the suspicion remains: every system that promises to describe us also begins to decide what can be seen.”
Aikonaut works across electronic music, language, graphic design and digital media. Generative systems participate in the making, but never replace the question the work is asking.
About AikonautArchive signals · closed vocabulary
Nine recurring pressures. One shared index.
Each signal opens a complete, linkable file of the releases that carry it. No improvised labels; the vocabulary changes only by deliberate revision.
01Human / systemMens / systeem7 releases · →02Identity / disappearanceIdentiteit / verdwijning4 releases · →03Ritual / technologyRitueel / technologie6 releases · →04Language / camouflageTaal / camouflage8 releases · →05Control / surrenderControle / overgave5 releases · →06Memory / distortionHerinnering / vervorming5 releases · →07Testimony / erasureGetuigenis / uitwissing5 releases · →08Body / measurementLichaam / meting6 releases · →09Source / versionBron / versie6 releases · →