Oleh Shpudeiko (Heinali)

Oleh Shpudeiko is a Ukrainian music composer and sound artist who records as Heinali. He specializes in electronic music and modular synthesis, taking inspiration from Early music and medieval polyphony. 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).

He has a long history of live performances, including appearances at venues and festivals such as NEXT in Bratislava, Primavera in Barcelona, Unsound in Krakow, Illuminate in Adelaide, Ephemera in Warsaw; Kyiv's Plivka and Mystetskyi Arsenal and Ukraine's Next Sound. Since 2019, Oleh has been a co-author and co-host, together with Alexey Shmurak, of the Ukrainian АШОШ educational platform featuring a podcast series, vlog, and lectures, covering a wide range of music and sound-related topics in an accessible language, such as early music history and theory, phenomenology of groove, bodily expression in electronic music, music as violence and sound as a weapon.

Heinali is an artist supported through SHAPE+ platform in 2023/2024. SHAPE+ platform is co-financed by Creative Europe and financially supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

Date of residency: 14. 2. – 3. 3. 2023  

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SHAPE+ is a three-year initiative co-funded by the European Union and supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.