Short Description
Alpakka 0815 is a music and art project situated between German rap, pop, and digital poetry.
A fluffy alpaca raps about love, self-doubt, fame, and belonging – and about what humanity might sound like in an algorithmic world.
The lyrics and music are created with the help of artificial intelligence. The project is curated by Matthias Kuntzsch and Jochen Schönfeld, who do not understand AI as a replacement for creativity, but as an artistic tool: What happens when a machine imitates feelings – and we suddenly begin to take them seriously?
Alpakka 0815 is not a gimmick. It is a poetic experiment about authenticity, closeness, and gentleness in a time of constant overstimulation.
The Concept
Alpakka 0815 combines humor, pop aesthetics, and digital technology into a new form of storytelling.
The AI generates lyrics and music, which are then curated, contextualized, and released as a coherent artistic project.
This is not about demonstrating technology, but about a deeper question: Can something that originates from a machine still move us?
Instead of irony or provocation, Alpakka 0815 adopts a stance that is unusual in contemporary German rap: gentleness instead of cynicism, connection instead of separation, feeling instead of pose.
The guiding motif of the project is “flausch” (fluff) – a symbol of softness, vulnerability, openness, and acceptance: a consciously different attitude within German rap and digital production.
Where others stage strength, Alpakka 0815 allows itself tenderness. Where others draw boundaries, it seeks closeness.
Artistic Stance
Alpakka 0815 understands itself as a post-digital art project: the distinction between human and machine is not denied, but consciously shaped. The AI provides material – meaning emerges through selection, context, and interpretation.
In terms of content, the project develops a clear ethic:
- Self-loyalty instead of self-erasure
- Humanity over exclusion
- Inner responsibility instead of dogma
- Love without labels
This attitude runs through humorous songs as well as through quieter, more personal pieces.
“Fluff is not a style. Fluff is a stance.”
Debut Album: From Stable to Star and Back
The debut album is deliberately conceived as a playful, childlike phase of learning and self-discovery: a modern parable in which an alpaca leaves the stable, encounters fame, public attention, and projection – and, after a fall, tentatively finds its way back to itself.
Thematically, the album moves between identity and self-loss, closeness and publicity, irony and sincerity, technology and feeling.
The journey “from stable to star” is less a manifesto than a mirror – a question: What remains of a self when everything becomes a stage?
Key Songs
“Heuballen von Dresden” / “Jung, lass Kronjuwelen holen” / “Operation Flauschheist”
A humorous satirical trilogy about gangster rap, status symbols, and media logic. Alpakka 0815 subverts classic fantasies of power: no loot, no triumph – only insight, self-irony, and humanity.
“Flausch liebt Flausch”
A love song without categories. No labels, no boxes, no market value: love is directed at the human being – not the form. A manifesto for openness, equality, and authenticity beyond trends and identity poses.
“Zäune im Kopf” (Fences in the Mind)
A humanistic song about borders, belonging, and origin. It is not walls, passports, or lines on maps that divide people, but fear, pride, and old narratives. The song advocates connection instead of separation – quietly, without lecturing.
“Ich glaub’ an mich” (I Believe in Myself)
A personal song about inner stance. Not directed against faith, but focused on autonomy: orientation comes from feeling, experience, and responsibility – not from external prescriptions.
“Du warst nicht mein Zuhause” (You Were Not My Home)
An intimate act of self-clarification about love and self-loss. Not as accusation, but as realization: closeness must not mean giving up oneself. This song marks the emotional depth of the project beyond humor.
“Hurra, die Welt bleibt weich” (Hooray, the World Remains Soft)
A conscious counterpoint to the idea that destruction must come before freedom. The song asks: Do systems have to burn before we can be human – or does change begin in the present? Here, gentleness appears not as retreat, but as a deliberate form of resistance.
AI as an Artistic Tool
Alpakka 0815 does not conceal its technical foundation – on the contrary. AI is a visible part of the project and raises questions about authorship, originality, and emotion.
But the aim is not to replace the human. The machine generates material – meaning arises through human selection, context, and stance. This is not about technical demonstration, but about a fundamental question: What do closeness, authenticity, and feeling mean in an algorithmic world?
It is precisely in the tension between machine production and human interpretation that the project unfolds its real strength.
Context
Alpakka 0815 moves between music, literature, satire, and media art. It is both a pop project and a conceptual work – accessible in sound, reflective in its message.
Instead of cynicism, provocation, or self-aggrandizement, the project commits itself to something rare: radical kindness.
Not as a pose, but as a conscious aesthetic and ethical decision.
Short Version (for Editors)
Alpakka 0815 is a post-digital music and art project between German rap, pop, and digital poetry. Using AI, songs are created that are curated by humans and placed within a clear conceptual framework. Instead of cynicism and hardness, the project focuses on gentleness, closeness, and humanity. “Fluff” is not a gimmick, but a stance: connection instead of separation, feeling instead of pose.