Oleg
Troyanovsky
Composer and media artist based in New York. His work spans contemporary composition, orchestral music, film, radio, sound installations and interdisciplinary projects.
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Approach
Transformation is central to Troyanovsky’s compositional practice. Objects, structures and scenes are translated into music, where they take on new forms beyond their original meanings.
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Work
Tap Code Songs
Documented messages of political prisoners are encoded with the prison tap code and become music inside an autonomous sound field. Presented at Amherst College in Pictures from the Dead House.
Unknown Story
Composed for HOPE: 12 Prayers for Cello & Orchestra, a collaborative album supporting Save the Children. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios with cellist Andreas Graf and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ben Palmer. Released by Claves Records.
Family Happiness
Music for Stasya Tolstaya’s adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella, combining orchestral and choral writing, solo soprano, and electronic music. Conceived as an integral part of the film’s storytelling, the music shapes its emotional and dramatic development, much as it does in opera or ballet. The film has been presented at festivals across Europe, Asia, and South America.
Music Found in a Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the Botkin family is read as a score. Four graphic works show how the music was derived; the result sounds in the gallery.
Periodic Table
Atomic masses of the chemical elements become musical material: integer and decimal parts are assigned to separate instrumental layers. Made for a VR reconstruction of Mendeleev’s study at Moscow State University.
Color: Oceanic Gray
A color code is encrypted into musical notes. The cipher is the basis of the entire piano piece.
Recognition
Winner of the Prix Italia Grand Prix (2015) and the Prix Europa Special Prize (2015).
In 2020, one of six winners, selected from more than 11,000 entries, of the Westworld Scoring Competition organized by HBO and Spitfire Audio. The jury included J. J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Ramin Djawadi.
Work presented with the London Symphony Orchestra, at Amherst College, and in radio, concert and gallery contexts.