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Oleh Shpudeiko Is A Music Composer And Sound Artist Who Records As Heinali. He Specialises In Electronic Music And Modular Synthesis Taking Inspiration From Early Music And Medieval Polyphony. Beginning In The Early 2000s With A Handful Of Stylistically And Compositionally Eclectic Self-Released Albums Ranging From Modern Classical And Ambient To Experimental Electronic And Noise Heinali Came Into Broader International Awareness With His 2017 And 2018 Releases On London / Istanbul Electronic Label Injazero Records—ANTHEM And IRIDESCENT. While Oleh Composed ANTHEM Employing Primarily Sound Processing Techniques IRIDESCENT Offers A Window Into Shpudeiko's Fascination With Generative Counterpoint. His 2020 MADRIGALS Album Marries This Interest With His Love For Early Music Featuring Improvisations On Period Instruments Over Polyphonic Textures Generated On A Modular Synthesiser. It Was Named Contemporary Album Of The Month In The Guardian Shortlisted For The Aprize Music Award And Shevchenko National Prize. Oleh Has Been Working On A Generative Polyphony Patch For Modular Synthesis Since Early 2018 Providing The Backbone For His Live Sets And Subsequent Releases. Heinali's Latest Album KYIV ETERNAL Released In 2023 Is An Intimate Tribute To His Home City Under Attack And A Side-Step From His Established Practice Of Reimagining Early Music. It Features Pre-War Field Recordings Of Kyiv Juxtaposed With Ambient 'memory Loops' From Oleh's Archives. In The Same Year MoMA Magazine Premiered Oleh's AVES RUBRAE "red Birds" In Latin A Composition Commissioned By The Museum Of Modern Art—a Return To His Core Practice Drawing On Medieval Polyphony As Well As The Music Of The Band Coil Which Influenced Shpudeiko As A Young Composer. Alongside This Catalogue As A Solo Musician Heinali Encompasses Interdisciplinary Multi-Media Art Projects And Soundtracks. Shpudeiko's Sound Artworks In Collaboration With Ukrainian Classically Trained Music Composer Alexey Shmurak Are In The National Art Museum Of Ukraine And Museum Of Modern Art Of Odesa Collections. In 2016 Shpudeiko Composed Award-Winning Original Music For The Video Game BOUND Plastic/Sony Santa Monica And The Contemporary Dance Production A THREAD Choreographed By Jean Abreu And Premiered At Southbank Centre. Around The Same Time He Began A New Collaborative Project With Actor/choreographer Volodymyr Shpudeiko. Their SYNTHTAP Production Fuses Tap Dance And Modular Synthesis A Generative Sound Production That Responds Directly To The Dancer's Movements. In 2021 THE WALL Reactive Ballet Based On SYNTHTAP Technology In Collaboration With Choreographer Illia Miroshnichenko Premiered At The Kyiv Municipal Academic Opera And Ballet Theatre.
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Oleh Is Also Known For His Collaboration With US Poet Matt Finney. Between 2011 And 2021 Finney And Shpudeiko Released Four Collaborative Albums Of Dark 'southern Gothic' Poetry Collages. Heinali's Recorded Works Have Been Released On Injazero Sony Interactive Entertainment The Flenser And Other Labels. He Has A Long History Of Live Performances Including Appearances At Venues And Festivals Such As NEXT In Bratislava Unsound In Krakow Berlin's Berliner Dom In Collaboration With The Alter Ratio Vocal Ensemble Kyiv's Plivka And Mystetskyi Arsenal Ukraine's Next Sound Festival And Berlin's Akademie Der Künste. ​
Oleh Performs His Live Shows On A Modular Synthesiser Employing A Patch Inspired By The Polyphony Of The High Middle Ages—the Music Of Leonin Perotin Machaut Ockeghem As Well As The Monophony Of Hildegard Von Bingen.
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Since 2019 Oleh Has Been A Co-Author And Co-Host Together With Alexey Shmurak Of The АШОШ Education Podcast And Vlog Covering A Wide Range Of Music And Sound-Related Topics In An Accessible Language Ranging From Music History And Theory To The Phenomenology Of Groove Problems Of Form In Electronic Music To Music As Violence And Sound As A Weapon. read less