Varun Desai | 5volts is the unique merger of technology and music following the synthesizer music tradition. A one man live act, the drum machine and 303 driven rhythms created by Varun Desai throb beneath improvised analog synth work and digital atmospheres reminiscent of classic Techno, Ambient, Krautrock and Berlin school synthesists. With a 15 year career as a promoter, label manager, producer, designer & video artist, Varun Desai’s culture work has taken him from Burning Man to Berghain, and as a DJ to tour Poland, Switzerland, Portugal, Nepal and India. Producing concerts for Jazz legends and pioneering underground club culture in his hometown of Calcutta, his sound draws its identity from dance music while his performance pays its dues to those who step onstage to create a live experience. Varun is also the founder of Synthfarm, a music synthesizer residency that has been held outside Kolkata since 2015. Synthfarm has been the meeting place of the first generation of modular synth geeks of India and has been incubating ideas that have led to India’s first DIY synth – The Pocasynth. Varun teaches first time builders and attendees how to solder and build their own synths.