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Olena Shykina
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Olena Shykina is a Kyiv-based composer and sound artist whose practice grows from a research-driven, conceptual approach shaped by her background in linguistics, product and experience design; and a deep love for cinema, literature, theater, and fine art. Aiming for a bold, holistic, and highly expressive sonic language, she approaches sound as a cohesive system defined by the correspondence of spirit and matter. Her work investigates the physical sensation of sound — how it expands, resonates, interacts with the body, and takes on a sculptural multidimensionality in space.
Using electroacoustic methods, noise, high-frequency oscillations, granular processes, and real-time manipulation, she builds sonic environments that are expressive, bright, and physically present. The result is a practice that bridges design thinking with musical experimentation: structured yet visceral, concept-driven yet intensely emotional, expanding the listener’s sense of sonic volume, energy, and tactility.
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SELECTED WORK
GAIA-24. OPERA DEL MONDO
live-electronics and live-video artist
GAIA-24. Opera del Mondo is a contemporary geohistorical opera by Roman Grygoriv and Illia Razumeiko. The project is based on exploration of the results of destructive human activities on the global ecological situation, and particularly Russian invasion in Ukraine that tries to find new ways to speak about ecology on a music theatre stage, find new performance, body, voice, music methodologies and develop “extended” scenography that can connect human body, theatrical space, and surrounding “cosmos” in terms of natural, cultural and political environment.
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COSSACHKA DANCE PERFORMANCE
composer and performer
An ambient audio-choreographic odyssey that delves into the depths of women's resilience, brought to life by an independent collective of female dancers, musicians, and visual artists from Ukraine. Forged in the fires of war, where many women have voluntarily taken up arms or dedicated themselves to activism, this performance explores the collective experience of womanhood, unfolding as a ceremonial stage expression.
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SONGS OF UNBORN Performance/IRRENAISSANCE album
composer and live-electronics artist
The performance where Roman Grygoriv transforms a Russian URAGAN MLRS missile into a unique musical instrument. This 15-minute multimedia ritual, performed with strings, voice, and live electronics, tells a story of transformation and resilience.
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SINNER’S PRAY album
composer, music producer
The Ukrainian jewelry brand à propos has released the ‘audiovisual’ collection ‘Sinner’s Pray’— a collaborative project with composer and electronic musician Olena Shykina, the author of the score for the dance performance ‘Kosachka’. Olena wrote five compositions, uniting them in the EP ‘Sinner’s Pray’, while à propos created jewelry for each track. The EP’s mixing and mastering were handled by Ukrainian producer Native Outsider.
PERFORMANCES LIVE
live-electronics artist
Live performances have taken place both as independent sets and within collaborative jam sessions, presented across a range of cultural venues in Kyiv.