Ukrainian producer and composer Nastya Vogan has released the track ‘Skarb’, created as part of a project of the same name exploring the roots of Ukrainian identity through lessons from history. The composition is accompanied by a video that features imagery of iconic archaeological artifacts discovered on the territory of Ukraine, spanning the period from the Paleolithic era to the Cossack age
About the track
‘Skarb’ is described as an example of ‘how electronic music can engage with history not through reconstruction, but through feeling’. The description notes that in the track, Nastya Vogan ‘sets the rhythm for perceiving history as movement — uneven and continuous’.
‘Music functions as an environment, another layer of perception in which time is felt through rhythm, density, ornamentality, and mood — simultaneously contemplative and focused, gently sentimental yet forward-looking’.
Nastya Vogan also creates music and sound design for the interactive lessons of the ‘Skarb’ project. The newly released single of the same name acts as the project’s central soundtrack.
‘When Khrystia Khranovska, the project’s initiator, invited me to join ‘Skarb’, I felt an immediate inner ‘yes’. It wasn’t a request for music as illustration — rather an invitation to feel the flow of history and find its dynamic sound, — the composer says. — The core idea resonated deeply with me: not to explain the past, but to give it the space to be heard. First the track appeared, and only later came the realization that this music needed a visual extension’.
About the video
The video for the track ‘Skarb’ was filmed at the archaeological site ‘Ostriv’ in the Kyiv region, where medieval artifacts and the burial sites of Baltic migrants, dating from the late 10th to the first half of the 11th century, have been discovered.
The project team adds that the choice of location for the video ‘emphasizes the connection between contemporary art and living history’.
Among the archaeological artifacts featured in the work are the Scythian golden pectoral, the Martynivka Treasure, an ornamented mammoth-tusk bracelet from the Mizyn site, the Trypillian Venus, a Cossack chaika boat, and the sword of Prince Sviatoslav. In the video, they ‘appear not as museum exhibits, but as living carriers of memory that connect different eras — from the Paleolithic to the Cossack age’.
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About Nastya Vogan
Nastya Vogan is a composer, producer, DJ, and resident of the Kyiv club ∄. She has been involved in music for about twenty years, counting from her time in music school, and has a classical composition education. She has performed at key parties and festivals in Ukraine as well as abroad — at clubs such as Berghain, Tresor, RSO, KHIDI, about blank, and fabric, and at festivals including Berlin Atonal, CTM, Draaimolen Festival, and ICKPA: BERLIN, among others. In addition to electronic music, Nastya writes soundtracks for shows by Ukrainian designers and brands.
In addition, she created the techno party series Leisure (now inactive), the electroacoustic project Cyclones slowly rose, and performed with a quintet at the NONDUAL exhibition on Kyrylivska Street.
