Svaritanum workshop was created in 2004 by musician, engineer and inventor Denis Kashcheev.
His engineering degree from Polytechnic University and his passion for music, travel and nature came together in the creation of an instrument workshop.
Denis traveled a lot around the world, studying the culture, history and traditions of different countries.
In 2011-2012 a great journey through Eurasia took place. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tibet, Nepal, India, Thailand and Malaysia were visited.
In India, Denis became interested in yoga, music and meditation, and began to study the bansuri flute from local masters. The cities of Rishikesh, Varanasi, Vrindavan, Haridwar, Gokarna and Auroville were visited. He came to understand the importance of music and spiritual practices.
Two years later, the first musical instruments were created.
In 2015, Denis, together with harpist Stanislava Malakhovskaya, launched the musical project Mama Nature, which unites the desire to create beauty and harmony in music based on ancient musical and spiritual traditions.
In 2016, the Svaritanum workshop received its name. In Sanskrit Svara means note, tan – rhythmic variation, Aum – primordial sacred sound, universal vibration.
In the same year, the first album of the group Mama Nature, Ambrosia, was released, recorded together with various musicians, including Rivindu Yaddehige, a tabla performer from Sri Lanka.
In 2017, a unique instrument – a crystalophone – was born in the Svaritanum Workshop. The three-octave model has 40 quartz notes, a sustain pedal, a range longer than three chromatic octaves, a unique arrangement of resonators at an angle.
To date, the Svaritanum workshop produces a wide range of quartz glass instruments for sound therapy, music, and meditation. These are crystal harps, crystalophones, flutes, chimes and wind chimes, metallophones.
The workshop’s instruments are used in sound therapy studios all over the world.
The crystalophone has been featured as a solo instrument with an orchestra in the Great Hall of the Saint Petersburg Philharmonia.
Svaritanum instruments are used by the Mama Nature group, Marimba mix ensemble, Manu Delago, Zhenya Lyubich.
