Totemtag

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2022
Imagining transferring also the capability of feeling sentiments inside an android/AI. Is it possible to train a robot to feel sentiments using artificial intelligence? I have a feeling that a sentimental (not only intelligent) robot would not be very happy, due to the limitation of being trapped inside a machine-like body. And yet, from the intelligence point of view, it would be incredibly efficient and fast. The album starts with a very long poignant melodic trilogy accompanied by a minimalistic sequence (using Elektron Analog Four Mk. 2), which develops in several moments. Voices in the background show a growing soul for the android, and an inner drama. I composed this piece 5 years ago, but the time wasn't right. Techno-like pieces, alternated with "Schulzean" ones follow and dominate all the rest of the album. The android accepts only the intellectual role that has been entrusted to it, and stops suffering by eliminating forever the “sentiment subroutine" that was programmed inside it as an experiment. It explores space with no limitations and no brakes. Its ethics is dictated only by its own programming (what is right? what is wrong to do?). And meanwhile it experiences the mechanism of consciousness using only its intelligence. At that point some form of spirituality starts to grow inside it. A new kind of conscious being is born.

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2022
Imagining transferring also the capability of feeling sentiments inside an android/AI. Is it possible to train a robot to feel sentiments using artificial intelligence? I have a feeling that a sentimental (not only intelligent) robot would not be very happy, due to the limitation of being trapped inside a machine-like body. And yet, from the intelligence point of view, it would be incredibly efficient and fast. The album starts with a very long poignant melodic trilogy accompanied by a minimalistic sequence (using Elektron Analog Four Mk. 2), which develops in several moments. Voices in the background show a growing soul for the android, and an inner drama. I composed this piece 5 years ago, but the time wasn't right. Techno-like pieces, alternated with "Schulzean" ones follow and dominate all the rest of the album. The android accepts only the intellectual role that has been entrusted to it, and stops suffering by eliminating forever the “sentiment subroutine" that was programmed inside it as an experiment. It explores space with no limitations and no brakes. Its ethics is dictated only by its own programming (what is right? what is wrong to do?). And meanwhile it experiences the mechanism of consciousness using only its intelligence. At that point some form of spirituality starts to grow inside it. A new kind of conscious being is born.

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2021
This is strongly inspired by the Berlin School of classical electronic music

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2026
This album is inspired by the hypothetical existence of an intelligent and technologically advanced civilization on the exoplanet Teegarden-b, orbiting a red dwarf star and located within its habitable zone. A civilization capable of constructing entire cities out of diamond, artificially synthesized in laboratories from pure carbon.
It is a kind of journey, both inward and outward: Chrystallia city is a completely transparent environment bathed in the pink-fuchsia light of its parent star, inhabited by beings resembling albino humans, with pink eyes and diaphanous, almost translucent skin.

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2026
This album is inspired by the hypothetical existence of an intelligent and technologically advanced civilization on the exoplanet Teegarden-b, orbiting a red dwarf star and located within its habitable zone. A civilization capable of constructing entire cities out of diamond, artificially synthesized in laboratories from pure carbon.
It is a kind of journey, both inward and outward: Chrystallia city is a completely transparent environment bathed in the pink-fuchsia light of its parent star, inhabited by beings resembling albino humans, with pink eyes and diaphanous, almost translucent skin.

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2020 / 2023
I have imagined little "cities" built - using gigantic 3D printers on site, sent previously by robotic missions - on the Moon, Mars and on some moons of Jupiter and Saturn. This will probably happen in the next 10-50 years. The goal is mostly to extract minerals and also to search for elementary lifeforms.
All musical pieces here are based on playful "arpeggiated sequences", mostly obtained using the Korg Radias synth. I wanted to render a super-technology in our short-medium term future

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2020 / 2023
I have imagined little "cities" built - using gigantic 3D printers on site, sent previously by robotic missions - on the Moon, Mars and on some moons of Jupiter and Saturn. This will probably happen in the next 10-50 years. The goal is mostly to extract minerals and also to search for elementary lifeforms.
All musical pieces here are based on playful "arpeggiated sequences", mostly obtained using the Korg Radias synth. I wanted to render a super-technology in our short-medium term future

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2023
 

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2023
 

Artist: Totemtag
P: 2024
Music here is made of two long suites that are almost entirely based on improvisation. The style might remind a mix of classic-symphonic music, and Klaus Schulze-like and Tangerine Dream-like long sequencer fugues.