Yana Shliabanska

b. 1994 · Ukraine

Yana Shliabanska (b. 1994) is a composer and sound artist whose chamber and orchestral music, interactive sound installations, theatre and performance scores, and electroacoustic works have been performed in Ukraine, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States.

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Awards

Scholarship for young artists, President of Ukraine
Residency support, French Institute, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (2022–2023)

Performed at UCMF

Almost Real Directions

UCMF 2021 · Voices of the New Millennium · Mar 5 · 2018 · Chamber

instrumental “walk” through Lviv derived from a street histogram

Performed by Andrii Didorenko (Violin), Yuliya Basis (Piano), Valeriya Sholokhova (Cello), Gleb Kanasevich (Clarinet), Tristan Kasten-Krause (Double bass)

The structure of “Almost Real Directions” is derived from a histogram, created by the Ukrainian team Maparni, of data concerning the length and general direction of the streets of Lviv. By using the histogram as a musical coordinate system, Shliabanska has created an instrumental walk through the city with “Almost Real Directions.” It is also an attempt to subjectively transfer the street chart into a musical coordinate system used to compose the work.

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atropa belladonna

UCMF 2023 · Evolutions · Mar 18 · 2022 · Electroacoustic

“I was walking through the forest and found a beautiful flower. Suddenly I heard a very quiet sound. I went closer, right up to the plant, and realized that the sound was coming directly from the flower! Immediately I took out my recorder and recorded the sound. Here I present the recording without manipulation, just amplified. By the way, after this, people told me that this is the poisonous flower, atropa belladonna.”

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