Oleh Shpudeiko is a music composer and sound artist who works under the Heinali pseudonym. A self-taught electronic music composer, Oleh possesses a stylistically diverse catalog that includes sound art and interdisciplinary works. However, in his core practice, he's been focused on reimagining medieval music with a modular synthesizer, an instrument that he sets up informed by artistic research, enabling him to improvise polyphony and monophony, borrowing techniques and ideas from medieval composers & theorists and contemporary fields of analog synthesis & generative music — exploring intersections of the Providence and Contingency, the past and the present, technology and the sacred. 

Oleh writes music for games, films, choreography performances, creates sound art installations, and performs live shows. Amongst his works is award-winning music for the video game BOUND by Plastic/Sony Santa Monica, the 2020 album MADRIGALS shortlisted for the Shevchenko National Prize, and compositions and sound art installations commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), The National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU) and The Museum of Odesa Modern Art (MSIO). 

Shpudeiko has a long history of live performances, including appearances at venues and festivals such as CTM in Berlin, NEXT in Bratislava, Musikprotokoll in Graz, Primavera in Barcelona, Unsound in Krakow and Adelaide, Ephemera in Warsaw; Kyiv’s Plivka and Ukraine’s Next Sound festival.

Organa (excerpts) 

Performed by Oleh Shpudeiko (modular synthesizer), u-matic & telematique (generative video art)

31 January 2024, live show at CTM 2024, Berlin

https://youtu.be/yERstKxLC6k?si=gFlG8V79f_Zbx65P  

Madrigals LP released on Inazero (2020)

Performed by Igor Zavgorodnii (baroque viola, violin), Oleh Shpudeiko (modular synthesizer, mixing), Andrew Maginley (theorbo), Maxim Kolomiiets (baroque oboe)

January 2020, recorded by Vadyk Lazariev at LipkyZvukoZapys, Kyiv

Additional recording by Sine Buyuka in London (November 2019)

https://heinali.bandcamp.com/album/madrigals  

Kyiv Eternal LP released on Injazero (2023)

Performed by Oleh Shpudeiko (electronics, composition, mixing)

https://heinali.bandcamp.com/album/kyiv-eternal 

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