This piece was recorded and produced for the ROBOTS!-Independent Music Compilation Album in July 2013 auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/robots

The track Erasmus, is based on a character from the latest 6 Dune novels. Erasmus is both a frightening yet intriguing, and likeable character known as a Thinking Machine in the Dune novel The Machine Crusade. Better for me to start with the author's idea of who Erasmus is:

"Erasmus, an independent and somewhat eccentric thinking machine that served under Omnius prior to and during the Butlerian Jihad. Erasmus took his name, and titular gender, from the ancient Earth scholar Desiderius Erasmus.
Erasmus is often credited as being the founding father of mentats, and a critical figure in the initiation and development of the Butlerian Jihad.
Later, after the re-birth of the Thinking Machine Empire, Erasmus became a major force guiding events leading up to, and during, the Kralizec, the great struggle at the end of the age."

I had bigger ambitions for this track but as the mixing process unfolded I realized that in keeping Robot lore as being efficient machines of precision and logic the musical elements should reflect that as well in the way of being simple and/or straightforward making good use of time and space. I hope that this track in some way reflects those elements as well as the character of the Thinking Machine known as Erasmus.

Hear and read about all 51 artists who contributed to this collection and visit their sites at auralfilms.bandcamp.com/album/robots