Arche
Departure
Hello World
Turing's Nightmare
To the Moon
Hibernation
Kessler Syndrome
Appel du vide
Life is Good
Indifference
Palingenesis

Xenotopia is a musical approach to reflect the relation between human beings and technology in the field of tension of nature and culture. These aspects are especially recognizable through the development process of the album. The aim of the musical process was to cross classical forms of compositions and electronic music production to fulfill not only a dialog between these creative aspects, but also to merge composition and production into one other. For this purpose, basic musical material for instrumentalists was composed and recorded, to then be manipulated and processed to its definitive form of appearance in the editing process. Then, in the editing process manipulated and brought to its definitive album version. Furthermore, various methods of sound generation were used: from subtractive, additive and granular sound synthesis to methods of sound generation – using artificial intelligence (neural synthesis, differential digital audio processing, text to sample). Through the constant processing and recontextualisation of the recorded sounds and the interaction of these with synthesised sounds, the boundaries between the natural and the artificial are dissolved - transcendence and immanence become blurred. As the title Xenotopia suggests, the album deals with the fascination of strangeness and otherness and invites to explore musically the boundary between the fear of the unknown and the naivety about techno-optimism.