Aikonaut is the Belgian artistic music project of Bjorn Claes. Moving across electronic music, post-punk, hard dance, soundtrack and spoken word, it connects sound with language, graphic design and digital media. Generative AI participates in the making, while recurring themes include identity, control, ritual, technology and the strange administrative habits of modern systems.
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Aikonaut is het Belgische artistieke muziekproject van Bjorn Claes. Het beweegt tussen elektronische muziek, postpunk, hard dance, soundtrack en spoken word, en verbindt geluid met taal, grafisch ontwerp en digitale media. Generatieve AI neemt deel aan het maakproces; terugkerende thema’s zijn identiteit, controle, ritueel, technologie en de vreemde administratieve gewoonten van moderne systemen.
Aikonaut is a Belgian artistic music project developed by Bjorn Claes. Each release begins with a distinct concept and may expand beyond the record into cover series, project websites, text, moving image or a complete book. The music moves between electronic pop, post-punk, soundtrack, hard dance and forms that resist a stable genre label. Generative AI is used within composition, production and visual development, but is not presented as the work’s author or sole subject. Across different languages and formats, Aikonaut repeatedly returns to identity, control, ritual, consent, technological systems and the politics of what is measured or left unsaid. Streaming platforms currently list the releases under Bjorn Claes; Aikonaut is the connected artistic framework through which the catalogue is developed and presented.
Aikonaut is een Belgisch artistiek muziekproject van Bjorn Claes. Iedere release vertrekt vanuit een eigen concept en kan zich voorbij de plaat uitbreiden tot een reeks covers, een projectwebsite, tekst, bewegend beeld of een volledig boek. De muziek beweegt tussen elektronische pop, postpunk, soundtrack, hard dance en vormen die zich niet blijvend onder één genre laten vangen. Generatieve AI wordt ingezet bij compositie, productie en visuele ontwikkeling, maar wordt niet voorgesteld als auteur of enige bestaansreden van het werk. Over verschillende talen en formats heen keert Aikonaut terug naar identiteit, controle, ritueel, toestemming, technologische systemen en de politiek van wat wordt gemeten of verzwegen. Streamingplatformen vermelden de releases momenteel onder Bjorn Claes; Aikonaut is het verbonden artistieke kader waarin de catalogus wordt ontwikkeld en gepresenteerd.
Aikonaut is a Belgian artistic music project developed by Bjorn Claes. It approaches an album as a point of departure rather than a finished container: a release may continue into a dedicated website, a visual series, a book, moving image or another connected format.
The catalogue moves between electronic music, post-punk, soundtrack, hard dance, spoken word and deliberately unstable hybrids. Its coherence does not come from a fixed genre. Instead, different works return to related tensions: the individual and the system, identity and disappearance, ritual and technology, control and surrender, language and strategic silence.
Generative AI participates in composition, production and visual development. Within Aikonaut, that technology is neither hidden nor celebrated as an automatic source of novelty. It is one of the materials through which the work is made — and frequently one of the systems the work regards with suspicion.
Recent projects demonstrate the range of that approach. Dees Ploat Blèft Spele turns Antwerp dialect, fairground debris and social irritation into a ten-track local world. Jump Rite turns Belgian jumpstyle into a machine liturgy. Welkom in de Nulnaam stages an inverted initiation around name, self and measurement. All Remaining Birds files nature as an administrative object. Tacituri combines a literary story, soundtrack, voice-over writing and visual archive around responsibility and omission. AIKONAUT II revisits the 2024 debut as a set of remade rather than remastered works, asking what survives when a voice is reconstructed.
Streaming services currently identify the performing artist as Bjorn Claes. Aikonaut is the connected project identity under which the catalogue and its wider artistic environments are developed.
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