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"Heinali airs his ambient mood classics. Oleg Shpudeiko (the man behind Heinali) creates a gloomy atmospheric environment with the piano, strings, ambient / glitch structures. "Air" is his 6 song album.

Heinali from Kiev, Ukraine started composing music in 2003. His sound is generally eclectic, though often described as atmospheric and emotional. In 2009 he joined the Soloma art group and composed music for media art performances “Traces on the Snow”, premiered at “I Love Kiev” contemporary art festival (Kiev, Ukraine, 2009) and “Aero”, premiered at “Gogol Fest” contemporary art festival (Kiev, Ukraine, 2010). His music was featured in ‘Ni Ogros Ni Princesas’ Provizional Danza choreography directed by Carmen Werner (Madrid, Spain, 2011). Collaborated with Maria Navrotskaya, Pleq, Merzbow, Aiode, Anton Baibakov, Orchestra Eclettica e Sincretista, Matt Finney. Collaboration with American poet Matt Finney became a separate heavier and darker sounding project. In 2011 they wrote music for the opening of Olya Pischanskaya’s photo exhibition, which took place at Korobchinsky Art Centre (Odessa, Ukraine, 2011).

Heinali joined Fluttery Records family in 2012. "We signed international music project Draff Krimmy" says Taner Torun, the label owner. "Jan Hammer recommended us Jun Minowa and his projects Gargle and Yawning. Heinali was introduced to us by Jun Minowa. It seems that artist we work with are so happy that they are recommending us to their friends and our family is growing that way."

When we return to Heinali's latest "Air" we find cinematic sad music, strings moving around the central piano motifs which are minimalistic. Power of light touches, the ambience, the echo and the sense"

http://www.flutteryrecords.com/flttry039.html

Leaves

Scarf

Bells

http://heinali.bandcamp.com/album/useless-music

Useless Music I

Useless Music II

Swirling Lightly

A recording of my talk at CTM 2024. 

Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yqoEqU5AsDZ3GPV16lYXzTWJiCxFJ7oGzotM4oprxjY/edit?usp=sharing

This talk explores the perils and wonders of working with mediaeval music in our times, its transhistoricity and alterity – including 13th-century compositions as time-dilating black holes, possessed synthesisers exploring the boundaries of divine determinism and catastrophic polyphony traversing the wartime reality. Heinali is a Ukrainian music composer and sound artist whose core practice reimagines Early music with a modular synthesiser, exploring intersections of the Providence and Contingency, the past and the present, technology and the sacred.

And I Feel Dread, And I Feel Love - Reimagining Early Music at the End of Times

Aves Rubrae ('red birds' in Latin) was initially commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for MoMa magazine in 2023. It was recorded in one take on Heinali's modular synthesiser—an instrument that Oleh set up informed by artistic research of the past five years, enabling him to improvise polyphony and monophony, borrowing techniques and ideas from medieval composers & theorists and contemporary fields of analogue synthesis & generative music—exploring intersections of the Providence and Contingency, the past and the present, technology and the sacred.

Similar to the organa of XII-XIII century Notre Dame polyphony, Aves Rubrae is an organum that features fast-moving upper voices with intricate melodies created by the machine overlaid on the slow-moving drones of the lower voice. However, unlike the Notre Dame polyphony, composed for grand church celebrations, 'Aves Rubrae' has an eschatological tone that is perhaps more fitting for the world at hand. The piece references 'Red Birds Will Fly Out Of The East And Destroy Paris In A Night' (allegedly referencing one of the apocalyptic prophecies of Nostradamus) by Coil, paying homage to one of the most influential artists whose music shaped Oleh during his teenage years.

Music by Heinali
Mastered by Kuba Kutera in Wroclaw, Poland
Cover art by Mariya Tobischek
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Aves Rubrae

 "A Wave Crashes" consists of material recorded during electroacoustic studio improvisations incorporating analogue synthesizers and analogue and digital sound processing. It’s a kind of a sound sculpture of a certain moment almost frozen in time, letting you experience it from the different angles of space. 

Music composed and performed by Oleg Shpudeiko (Heinali).
Mastered by Lawrence English @158.
Photographies by Alex Naselenko.

A Wave Crashes III

Photography by Sasha Naselenko: http://cargocollective.com/fo

Sank

Part of the original soundtrack for A Thread choreography by Jean Abreu Dance. 
 
Viola by Benjamin Kaminski.
Recorded at Woodworm Studios and HHS.
Mastered by Lawrence English @158

Lament (A Thread OST)

Part of the original soundtrack for A Thread choreography by Jean Abreu Dance. 

Viola by Benjamin Kaminski.
Theorbo by Andrew Maginley.
Recorded at Woodworm Studios and HHS.
Mastered by Lawrence English @158

Drift (A Thread OST)

Listen and download 'Green' from the Bound soundtrack! 

iTunes - http://bit.ly/BoundOSTiTunes
Spotify - http://bit.ly/BoundOSTSpotify
Google Play - http://bit.ly/BoundOSTGoogle

Bound is a PlayStation 4 game about repairing a broken world through the beauty of dance. You can play it now at http://play.st/Bound.

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Bound

Bound OST - Green (Full Track/Download)

Useless Music III

Seagull

http://heinali.bandcamp.com/album/sway-sway

Sway, Sway

http://heinali.bandcamp.com/track/little-by-little

Little by Little

http://www.flutteryrecords.com/flttry039.html

October

Haiku is a naïve song cycle composed in 2010 that consists of four compositions for synthesized voice and artificial instrumentation, each based on an original haiku by Matsuo Bashō. These are restored/remastered versions. It's a quiet music and should be listened that way.

Haiku I

http://heinali.bandcamp.com/track/the-sun-will-rise-yet-we-wont-be-here

The Sun Will Rise Yet We Won't Be Here

For Ataraxia short film by Guillermo Vejar.

Festival de Cine de Oro Negro 2018, Veracruz – Winner best Short Film of Veracruz.

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/283199384
http://gatunofilms.com

Ataraxia OST (2015)

Photo by Sasha Naselenko: http://flickriver.com/photos/naselenko

Her Favorite Place

From Iridescent LP:
https://heinali.bandcamp.com/album/iridescent

Iridescent

Enfold

Ukrainian duo Heinali (aka Kyiv-based composer / sound-artist Oleg Shpudeiko) and pioneering experimental jazz saxophonist Michael Balog combine for a special one-off EP of improvised melody and exploratory sonics.

Brimming with the characteristic confidence of two acutely skilled musicians, A Mechanical Bird in an Electric Garden represents a meeting of two disparate approaches and a departure from Shpudeiko and Balog’s usual work. The record reveals Heinali’s love for generative polyphony and polyrhythms, his strange sci-fi sonics creating a spacious, futurist architecture that houses Michael Balog’s (relatively) recogniseable sounding - a snaking melodic binding that wraps through the machinery like coloured ribbon.

"The name A Mechanical Bird in an Electric Garden reflects the nature of our interaction,” Heinali tells us. “Machine based generative polyrhythms and generative polyphony vs human improvisation. The name came from my own mythology that kind of developed on its own during the past year. I started to refer to my music as "electric gardens of polyphony". Partly because gardens are usually inhabited by many independent voices of various birds that usually sound at the same time. And polyphonic compositions of pre-Baroque era are very similar to gardens: they have a very stable horizontal quality that is not so much about expression as it is about exploration of certain states (similar to some of the contemporary music practices like drone that deal with musical sculptures instead of musical compositions). Partly because of Brian Eno's idea of composer as a gardener. And the mechanical bird is, of course, Michael's saxophone.”

Over almost twenty years of beautiful, mercurial, creative expression, Heinali has become a much sought-after creator of electroacoustic soundscapes. His 2017 and 2018 releases on London / Istanbul electronic label Injazero Records garnered huge acclaim from press and radio worldwide, marking his arrival as a singular and significant voice in the experimental-electronic music landscape. He has also composed original music for video games, contemporary dance production and installation. His recorded works have been released on Injazero, Sony Interactive Entertainment, The Flenser, Fluttery, NEN, Paradigms and other labels. His history of live performances includes appearances at venues and festivals such as the Zorlu Performing Arts Center in Istanbul; Plivka, Art Arsenal, and Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv; Ukraine’s Next Sound festival and Museum of Modern Art of Odessa; and Berlin’s Akademie der Künste.

Michael Balog is Ukrainian jazz saxophonist and musician. He is an author of educational methods and the founder of Lviv’s Vedel School of Contemporary Music. Domestically celebrated for his multidisciplinary art projects, Balog is an ongoing experimenter, connecting spiritual chorals, improvisational music, theatre and film works, jazz and electronic music.

A Mechanical Bird in an Electric Garden

Nocturnal Song

Diurnal Song

Brave Little Heart

Ave Moog

Oleh Shpudeiko is a music composer and sound artist who performs under the stage name Heinali. His core practice draws on medieval music and compositional techniques, continuing their tradition through contemporary electronic music and modular synthesis, using the past as a mirror to reflect and process contemporary experience. While his primary focus lies in studio albums and live performances, Oleh also composes music for video games, films, and choreography. His credits include the award-winning soundtrack for the video game BOUND (Plastic/Sony Santa Monica), the 2020 album MADRIGALS, shortlisted for the Shevchenko National Prize, and sound art commissions from institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the National Art Museum of Ukraine (NAMU), and the Museum of Odesa Modern Art (MSIO). He has an extensive performance history, with appearances at festivals and venues including CTM (Berlin), Rewire (The Hague), NEXT (Bratislava), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Primavera (Barcelona), Unsound (Krakow and Adelaide), as well as Plivka and Next Sound in Kyiv.

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