With the “Lepidoptera” project, Dominik Eulberg turns fans into co-creators – painted butterflies become an animated video for biodiversity.
Dominik Eulberg is looking for creative minds. For his most recently released album, he came up with the following for fans: a way to not only be part of his music video, but also do something good for the environment.
That’s what it’s about
The project is called “Lepidoptera” – the scientific name for butterflies – and calls for painting. A self-painted butterfly can be submitted on a website created for this purpose until mid-August. An animated swarm is created from selected butterflies – and with it the music video for Dominik Eulberg’s track “Mittlerer Weinschwärmer”. A track that, with its oscillating sounds and deep kick drums, entices you to lie down in a meadow and watch the butterflies fly by.
Participate in biodiversity
In order to maintain this diversity, there is a participatory campaign together with the “Alliance for Agriculture Suitable for Grandchildren”. With the sentence “Diversity is not romantic folklore, but an ancient basic principle of nature for the preservation of life,” the DJ calls for participation. This appeal has a serious background: According to the Red List of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation published in December 2025, almost half of all established butterflies in Germany are endangered or already extinct.
Intensive agriculture is still considered the main cause; Added to this are the use of pesticides, nitrogen inputs and the loss of nutrient-poor open land habitats. Where meadows once buzzed, hummed and fluttered, today there is often an almost eerie silence.
The memorial in watercolor
Eulberg counters this scarcity in his music with his own polyphony – the painted swarm becomes a defiant gesture, a music video as a memorial in watercolor. A music video for biodiversity, for a song that lives out electronic diversity in art.
