Sound
The music moves between electronic pop, post-punk, soundtrack, hard dance and forms that resist a convenient label. Genre is a material, not a permanent address.
About the project
The record is rarely the whole object.
Aikonaut is a Belgian artistic music project developed by Bjorn Claes. It connects electronic music with language, graphic design, moving image and digital media — not as decoration around the songs, but as parts of the same work.
Bjorn Claes / Aikonaut
One person. Two names serving different functions.
Streaming platforms currently list the music under the artist name Bjorn Claes. Aikonaut is the project through which the releases, visual environments and connected experiments are developed and presented.
The distinction is practical rather than theatrical. Bjorn Claes is the person making and publishing the work; Aikonaut is the framework in which the work becomes a catalogue, a visual language and an ongoing set of questions.
Artistic approach
Concept first. Form follows the pressure.
Language
Lyrics may operate as story, command, official notice, confession or malfunctioning doctrine. Dutch, English, Darija, French and Latin appear where the subject asks for them.
Image and space
Covers, project sites, books and moving images extend each release into a navigable world. The design does not explain the music; it changes the room in which it is heard.
Generative systems
Generative AI participates in composition, production and visual development. It is treated as a creative technology with consequences — neither a magic author nor an excuse.
Questions that return
When does description become decision?
Can surrender be distinguished from obedience?
What survives when a voice is converted into a system?
Which absences become invisible because the interface works?
How much of a self can be measured before measurement changes it?
The working proposition
Aikonaut does not use technology to make the future look futuristic. It uses the present to ask why the future already feels administrative.