A new cinematic electronic chapter unfolding through NOVALIS, an original animated science-fiction universe.
Foxako brings music, animation and storytelling together across a series of connected releases. Chapter One, “Am I Alive”, is complete and ready to launch.
In 2302, Asha enters the abandoned ruins of NOVALIS and discovers a frozen human child carrying the same consciousness as her own.
The encounter raises the central question of the first chapter: when two versions of one consciousness exist, which one is truly alive?
“Am I Alive” opens the saga in 2302, long after the Last War. Asha, a Nomira from the ExNova-1 reconnaissance squad, enters the abandoned ruins of NOVALIS. While the rest of her team moves towards a mysterious source of infinite energy, she follows a trail of powered cables beneath an old bridge.
There, hidden inside a forgotten tunnel, she discovers a cryogenic chamber containing the last human child. What Asha does not yet fully understand is that the child is also her. The child's consciousness was duplicated and transferred into Asha. While the original human body and mind remained frozen in time, Asha continued to live, learn and grow through an entire lifetime.
Stills from Chapter One, “Am I Alive”
From music composition and storyboarding to 3D modeling and character animation, all developed in-house.
Music production
Storyboarding
3D modeling / animation
Characters animationFrench Touch combining micro-sampling, electronic funk, imperfect textures and retrofuturist nostalgia.
Foxako combines warm synthesizers, funk-driven rhythms and fragmented samples. His music can be intimate and minimal, or expand into more cinematic territory. Some of the material is first composed and recorded specifically to be sampled, cut apart and reworked, creating a sound built from entirely original sources.
On Am I Alive, this process takes on a more cinematic form, reflecting the atmosphere and emotional scale of the NOVALIS universe.
“Am I Alive” is the unreleased flagship track and the entry point of the NOVALIS universe. Private link, please do not share.
Foxako is a music and visual creator from French-speaking Switzerland. Building on his previous releases, he is now developing NOVALIS, a project connecting his music to an evolving cast of characters and stories.
He writes the music and story, and develops the project’s graphic design, motion, 3D environments and character animation. Keynok collaborates on the illustrations and visual development of the characters and world.
NOVALIS is the narrative foundation connecting every release in this new Foxako chapter: a five-arc science-fiction saga. The story begins in its final era, showing the consequences before revealing their causes. Each following release then returns to an earlier period and gradually fills in the missing pieces.
Instead of explaining everything, the first chapter presents the consequences before the causes: an abandoned city, conscious machines inheriting human memories and one impossible encounter hidden beneath the ruins.
Rather than continue from there, the next chapters rewind to an earlier era and move forward through the timeline. Only much later does the story reach that final era again, and reveal what happens after the ending left in suspense.
NOVALIS uses a stylised low-poly language inspired by early 3D games, Y2K culture and retrofuturist science fiction. Rather than pursuing photorealism, its simplified forms put the focus on composition, lighting and atmosphere.
After Chapter One, the saga rewinds to the City of Peace arc, which opens with three singles building towards a full album. Each single carries its own cover by Keynok.
Opens the arc. The flagship single.
Introduces the characters.
Album lead single.
The arc builds toward a full album. Its lead single, Wanderers, gets a 2D animated video, now in development. The first chapter was 3D; this one adds hand-drawn 2D, with Keynok on the look.
Wanderers, early 2D animatic, work in progress.
The social media campaign will launch with the first release. It will combine music excerpts, short narrative scenes, production footage and appearances by Foxako’s digital avatar.
The avatar will be animated through motion tracking and placed inside custom 3D environments, allowing Foxako to move between the real production process and the fictional world of NOVALIS.
This setup will be used for short performances, narrative fragments, visual experiments and behind-the-scenes content linked to each release.
Foxako is looking for a label and creative partner to help launch NOVALIS, define its release strategy, handle distribution and promotion, and build an audience over several releases. The identity, first chapter and long-term narrative foundation are already established, but the project has not yet been publicly launched.
Chapter One is complete, and the following arc is already in development. Foxako is looking for the right partner to join the project before launch and help develop it over time.
Foxako already has a catalogue and streaming history. NOVALIS marks the beginning of a new, more ambitious artistic direction combining music, animation and narrative.
Chapter One is ready. If this new Foxako direction aligns with your vision, let's start a conversation about launching and developing the project together.