Varboska

Kristian Bagarić is a professor of physics and computer science, as well as a self-taught  music producer and visual artist. Under the artistic name varboska, he creates experimental electro-acoustic music filled with autobiographical metonymy and hypnagogic and ritualistic motifs.

His live performances include Nova scena in the Zagreb club Pločnik, at the first ZEZ festival livestream, at VOLTA events in both solo DJ and live formats, and in a duo improv act with the producer Tonota. Together, they form an unnamed production improv/live duo, having performed together at Grounded festival in Ljubljana and collaborated on the multichannel A/V project called Interferences with Filip Pacak.

Additionally, he performs solo live improv/mixes under the auspices of the SUTRA collective for the Currents.fm COMMON MULTIVERSE INITIATIVE online festival.

His releases can be found on the SN4F compilation by the Ljubljana-based SNIF RECS label, which brings together producers from the Balkan region, as well as on the Future Unknown compilation by the American Vivarium Recordings. He also released an EP on Vivarium by the name At Long Last.

He has also independently released four EPs under his own production, a mixtape of over 40 tracks and an EP featuring an original single and remixes by close friends and collaborators (Tonota, Takt Juga, Late Dinner, Banora) and a noisy, driving, fast paced, experimental two tracker Apparitions I.

Besides music production and visual art varboska is also a part of SNOP, an artist platform that organises live multidisciplinary experimental art events.