The new experimental project of pioneering Ukrainian multimedia artist Dmytro Fedorenko wraps dissonant noise poetry, corrosive synthesis, and folk songs into a sound world of austere urban psychedelia.

Photo: courtesy of the artist

Invoking themes of primitivism and mysticism within the volatile currents of the contemporary digital era, VARIÁT is founded on ideas of transgression, reinvention, and liberation. The project began as an exploration of new recording techniques: metallic materials used as percussion and channelled through blown amps; toms played with a hammer; drilled cymbals; raw, dimensional textures produced from found objects. VARIÁT’s debut album I Can See Everything From Here was released last September via the Prostir label.

Berlin-based sound artist Dmytro Fedorenko is one of the earliest and most prolific pioneers of Ukrainian experimental electronic music. Fedorenko releases solo avant-garde electronic music as Kotra and established the renowned label Kvitnu in 2006, releasing material by the likes of Pan Sonic, Ilpo Väisänen, and Muslimgauze. Fedorenko is one half of the duo Cluster Lizard with the artist Kateryna Zavoloka, a project influenced by dystopian ideas and sci-fi soundtracks. Prostir is a new label and art space founded and run by Zavoloka and Fedorenko.

  • I Can See Everything From Here, by VARIÁT

  • I Can See Everything From Here, by VARIÁT