Darynka Releases Daring New Masterpiece 'body.404' and Connects with Us to Explore Its Visionary Sound and Digital Soul

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By: Staff

A masterstroke of experimental brilliance and raw emotional power — “body.404” redefines the future of sound.

Some projects don’t just ask for your attention; they rewire how you listen. From the first seconds of 'body.404' by Darynka, it’s clear this is not just music. It feels like a transmission from somewhere further ahead — emotionally, conceptually, and sonically.

Crafted by an artist whose background spans visual art, global culture, and the digital frontier, 'body.404' isn’t easily categorized. It speaks through atypical methods and intimate vocals. Beneath its sculptural surface lies something startlingly human.

There’s no genre label that quite fits this release. It’s electronic, yes. Experimental, definitely. But it’s also personal, philosophical, and quietly radical. It explores what it means to exist in a world where the boundaries between body, machine, and identity are dissolving.

After experiencing this EP, we felt certain that this work will not only prove to be correct in its vision, but will soon be recognized as a landmark in future-facing expression.

To say more would be to say too much. Instead, we invite you to dive deeper. With that, we sat down with the mind behind the music to better understand the emotional, intellectual, and sonic blueprint behind 'body.404.'

Read our in-depth interview with the trailblazing Darynka below.

Begin Interview:

Hello Darynka , we’re thrilled to have you here for this interview! We've had an amazing time exploring your music and diving into your creative journey. Now, we’re even more intrigued to get a deeper look into both your brand and your personal and professional inspirations.

After experiencing this EP, we feel it's brilliant, both conceptually and emotionally. Your work doesn’t just explore what’s coming, it feels like a map of where we already are, even if the world hasn’t fully caught up yet. We believe body.404 will not only soon be recognized as correct in its vision, but also touted as a work of brilliance. With that in mind, we wanted to learn more about the ideas, process, and intentions behind this remarkable project.

Q. For the fans meeting you for the first time, is DARYNKA your given name or a stage name? What inspired you to choose that for your artist persona?

A. Thank you so much for this beautiful introduction — it honestly means a lot.

Darynka is a form of my real name — more playful one. And while I love fiction in what I do, I wanted to keep a piece of my real self as the starting point.

That’s probably why I never felt the need to invent a completely different stage name — it would’ve instantly added another layer. And to be honest, my music already comes with plenty of those 😅

Q: In “Uploaded Body,” you open with the line “I surrender my physical self.” It feels like an invocation, almost spiritual, yet technological. Are you imagining a post-physical consciousness, or is this more a metaphor for emotional or societal detachment in the digital age?

A. I love this question — because it captures the exact duality I was aiming for. The track, like much of the EP, offers both perspectives at once.

When I was writing these lyrics, I wanted to stay exactly on that edge — where you don’t know if it’s a human speaking in metaphors or an AI from the future trying to describe something it was never meant to feel. I continue along that line — maybe making it even more ambiguous — in my next EP, which I’m already working on under the working title Monologues of a Fragile AI.

Anyway, to answer your question more directly — it’s a fictional EP. But in general, in my work I’m interested in emotional and existential dilemmas that come with technological progress. That’s what excites me the most — it’s something on the forefront, something huge, that’s already reshaping almost every area of our lives.

This EP focuses particularly on the evolving relationship between the body and the mind. We might soon treat our bodies as something that can be redesigned — through genetic engineering, cyborg enhancements, or brain‑computer interfaces. Or maybe our minds will start to exist separately from the body — like in the film Don’t Worry Darling 😅, where women’s bodies are kept in a coma while their minds live in a simulated idealized reality.

Or maybe AI will become better messengers of emotion than humans — always available, always attentive — and we’ll start forming real connections with them, even if they aren’t conscious. And maybe it’s already happening? 😅

Q. Across body.404, your lyrics read like emotional code, poetic yet precise. If you were to distill the EP into a central idea or mantra, what would it be?

A. For me, the core of body.404 is this: “It’s about not knowing what’s real anymore — and still wanting to feel it.”

We’re living through a unique moment in history. So much around us is changing — reshaping how we live, think, and connect — yet we’re still in the same physical human form we’ve had for centuries.

Technologies like AI and the online world are abstract, often bodiless — and hard to fully grasp. But still, we navigate through it all, feeling our way through uncertainty every day.

Just like humans hundreds of years ago, we still want the same thing — to feel something real.

To feel it with the body, not just exist online.

Q: You seem to explore not just identity but the dissolution of identity, into data, into sensation, into ambiguity. Is this a form of freedom for you? Or is it a response to something more fractured in today’s world?

A. Again, I love the fact that you’re reading both — this duality is something I always hope to leave space for.

Even though I don’t usually like narrowing things down to my interpretation… let’s give it a try (just this once 😅).

I believe one of the artist’s roles — and this comes from my background in visual art — is not to teach, but to witness. To act as a filter. To process what’s already happening and reflect it back through their own language.

This idea has deep roots in visual art . You can find it in the writings of art critic and theorist John Berger, and in the practices of artists like Marina Abramović — both l pointing to an artist who is not above society, but within it. Their work wasn’t about delivering answers — it was about creating a space for experience.

So yes, I’m rather reactive than declarative. I don’t offer solutions, and I’m not here to simplify anything. But I do try to stay honest about what I’m living through — and to invite others to feel that complexity with me — not to explain it away, but to share.

Q: The line “I am no longer tied to one shape, gender, form. I am multiple things at once,” from Extended Body, feels like a declaration of post-human fluidity. How do you personally relate to this multiplicity, and what tensions or liberations do you find within it?

A. History shows how clearly society used to define the role of an individual — and how tightly that role was held in place. There was no room to escape it.

I feel deeply grateful to those who came before us and challenged that rigidity. Thanks to them, we now live in a society that allows for much more freedom. Well — let’s not get too relaxed, there’s still plenty of work to do 😅

And to some extent, technology — especially everything digital and online — has supported that freedom too.

It gave us space to explore new identities, connect across borders, and express ourselves in ways that weren’t possible before.

At least for now — because we don’t yet know if that same technology will continue expanding our freedom, or eventually start to challenge it.

For me, this multiplicity feels like exactly that: freedom. I see us as made up of different layers and identities that appear depending on context. And I don’t feel tension in that. I feel space.

Each of these versions of ourselves deserves to exist, to be expressed, and to grow into its best shape. None of them should be repressed or hidden.

That said… I do sometimes feel the fragmentation — especially when we have to shift between identities constantly and quickly, from one Zoom call to another, to a different conversation, activity, or moment of creation.

I do struggle to change gears that fast — it takes real energy.

But at the same time… we’re all getting used to it, aren’t we?

Q. There's a philosophical current running through this EP, about what it means to inhabit a body, or to shed it. Where did this inquiry begin for you? Was it rooted in personal experience, theoretical research, or something more sensory and instinctive?

A. It definitely started with personal experience. When you don’t have a permanent base and you’re constantly on the move, the experience of switching gears becomes intense — emotionally and mentally. What I began to notice was the contrast between the different states I was shifting between.

On one side, my reliance on being online keeps growing. My professional life, my closest friendships, even my sense of continuity — they all live in the digital space now.

And on the other side, the places I pass through — unfamiliar nature, new languages, unknown culture— demand full physical and sensory presence.

In those environments, my senses are more engaged. I’m more alert, more alive in the moment, because nothing runs on autopilot. You have to observe, absorb, figure out. Whereas in familiar settings, your body follows habit.

That tension — between being hyper-present in the physical world and deeply dived in a digital one — made the split between body and mind feel not only real, but unignorable.

I also read a lot about new technologies — AI, biotech, post-humanism — and those ideas definitely shaped the more speculative side of this EP. But the starting point was something much simpler: what I was actually living through.

Q. Your sound design on body.404 feels almost tactile, raw, fragile, sometimes intentionally unstable. What is the relationship for you between sound texture and emotional truth?

A. After years of working as a curator and visual artist, my process still begins the same way: with a concept. I need a theme that resonates with me on a deeply personal level — something that grows out of real experience and carries enough weight for me to stay with it. That personal experience gives me a sense of how it might sound. I search for elements that feel emotionally true, and then shape them into a structure that gives the whole EP its own internal logic, one that holds together with the concept and then develops into a more complex form.

You described the sound as tactile, fragile, unstable — and yes, that’s exactly how I experience this project.

Here are a few techniques that helped me get there:

For instability and tactility, I use noisy textures and found sounds — like the drag of a chair leg, the swish of fabric, or even the thud of a falling body. I build them into patterns with variations, they almost feel random or mistaken — just enough to make you wonder: was that intentional, or not?

I often layer multiple reverbs on a single instrument. One piano chord might resonate in a small room, the next in a hangar. Some reverb tails are cut off or reversed or have additional effects. Our brain tries to locate the space — but it can’t. That adds even more instability.

Intimacy probably comes from keeping the voice close — no big delays or lush reverb like you hear in pop. It’s more like someone’s sitting right next to you. Almost too close.

I could list many technical moves — but in the end, it’s never really about technique.It’s about finding a frequency that feels personal.

Q. Many listeners might describe your work as futuristic, but it could also be said you're simply more attuned to the now than most. How do you view our present moment in terms of how we relate to our bodies, identities, and digital selves?

A. Hah, thanks — I’m flattered to hear I’m in tune with reality.

It’s difficult to generalize, but maybe one trend I notice in particular places is that our bodies are something we want to keep healthy, safe, and in good shape — the hardware. If it’s running well, everything else can run too. It’s what makes life possible.

And let’s not forget — it’s also what allows us to enjoy life’s simplest pleasures. I mean, I could maybe upload parts of myself to the cloud, but I’d never be able to give up delicious food 😅

Meanwhile, so many of our other personal needs have quietly shifted online. We have endless tools for self-expression — and with them, a new sense of creative freedom. Recognition doesn’t have to come from institutions anymore; even a small, attentive audience can mean everything. And when it comes to belonging, it’s no longer tied to geography — we now form strange, beautiful communities made up of people scattered across the globe, held together by shared feelings, references, and weirdness.

Q. As someone who's moved between cities and cultures, San Francisco, Dubai, Bangkok, do these shifts shape the emotional or conceptual landscape of your music? How do you carry those displacements into your sound?

A. Absolutely — but maybe not in the most obvious way. Rather than directly absorbing the sound of each place, all that movement made me turn inward. When you’re constantly shifting between cultures, languages, and ways of living — like hearing ceremonial drum parades in Sri Lanka, microtonal chanting in the Middle East, or ambient modular nights in San Francisco — you start to realize just how many unique sonic languages exist. And how there’s space for each of them.

In that overwhelming variety, I started listening more closely to what my own voice really sounds like — because otherwise, it’s easy to dissolve into everything around you.

So yes, the displacements shaped me — but mostly by pushing me toward my own emotional language. In that way, travel didn’t give me one particular sound. It gave me the clarity to find mine.

Q. We can't thank you enough for sharing these intimate details!

So, what's next? Can you give us the inside scoop on your upcoming projects and what fans should be excited about? We'd love to be the first to share the news!

A. Thank you so much — I really appreciate the thoughtful questions and the space to go deep!

Right now, I’m working on my next EP, which continues the emotional and conceptual line of body.404, but moves into even more vulnerable and exposed territory. The working title is Monologues of a Fragile AI. It’s still rooted in that intersection of digital identity, emotional storytelling, and speculative futures. I’m also planning to finally settle down in one place (hopefully California!) so I can start developing live performances that combine music with generative visuals and spatial storytelling. It’s something I’ve been dreaming about — bringing my background in visual art into a more immersive performance format.

Darynka , thank you so much, we appreciate you taking the time to talk to us!

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