Oleh Shpudeiko, performing as Heinali, is a Ukrainian composer and sound artist whose recent practice is driven by the sonic reterritorialisation of the past.
Treating history as a ‘distant mirror’, he extracts historic material from its original context to reveal the contradictions of our time. He utilises a eurorack modular synthesiser as a site of independent research, fusing the generative polyphony and monophony of a 'haunted machine' with broader electro-acoustic instrumentation.
​Following his breakthrough Madrigals (2020) and the New York Times-lauded Kyiv Eternal (2023)—a hauntological tribute to his home city and a farewell to a canceled future—this trajectory culminated in Гільдеґарда (2024/2025). A subversive recontextualisation of the 12th-century mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the project reterritorializes her music in a derealised body experiencing war by drawing on the authentic Ukrainian singing tradition. It earned an 8/10 from Pitchfork and widespread acclaim across 2025's best-of-the-year lists.
Shpudeiko’s interdisciplinary output encompasses permanent museum collections (NAMU, MSIO), award-winning game scores (Bound), and a commission for MoMA. He currently serves as a Mentor for the 2026–2027 Forecast Platform, and maintains a rigorous international touring schedule with landmark appearances at Lincoln Center, Unsound, Rewire, Tremor, Le Guess Who?, and CTM Festival.

Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko. Yasia. Singer, composer, and performer from Lviv, Ukraine. She explores her own artistic language at the intersection of genres and performative practices – spanning contemporary classical music, theatre, traditional folk singing, poetry, and jazz.
Working within any given framework, she inevitably seeks to transcend it – pushing beyond its limits toward something broader, more honest, and more expansive. For Yasia, authentic Ukrainian folk singing serves both as a vocal foundation – deeply rooted in the traditions and environment she grew up in – and as a primary instrument of communication with the world: direct, embodied, and alive. Guided by an inner sense of truth and a constant drive for growth, she approaches live performance as a meaningful encounter with the Other – and as a medium for transmitting the ideas she is compelled to express.
The Hildegard project, created in collaboration with Heinali, became a defining point in her career. In 2025, it received critical acclaim from outlets such as Pitchfork (8/10), The Quietus, and others, and was presented at major festivals including Unsound (Krakow and New York), Rewire, Primavera, CTM, Ephemera, among others.
She also composes music for theatre productions (including Než válka skončí, Eyes of the Blue Dog, and Atlantis, directed by Max Nowotarski) and has participated in theatre projects across Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, and Ukraine.