Oleg Sysoev

Oleg Sysoev (St.Petersburg).
From a background not closely related to music and sound.
A brief career history: qualified as a programmer (ITMO) and created two international companies working in the games industry.
The catalyst for taking up musical creativity was the New Media Laboratory at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, as well as lessons with composer Andrei Bundin.
Main interests: music installations, generative music, research into modern approaches to synthesis and work with timbre.

Completed works:
– A/V production of composition “Piano Phase” by Steve Reich;
– Multi-channel version of the installation/performance by Alvin Lucier “I Am Sitting In A Room”;
– Sound installation ROS.

“ROS”, algorithmic sound installation (2017).

The very basis of ROS is an algorithm similar to neural networks in terms of its properties. Having been “trained” using the piano piece of Norwegian composer Christian August Sinding, it plays an infinite loop of variations of “Rustle of Spring” (Frühlingsrauschen, Op. 32, No. 3).
This process can be seen as an infinite machine improvisation. However, there is another way to look at it: as a digital echo of a composition created by a human, or as an audio space woven from the harmony of the original composition.
It takes some time to recognise the relationship between ROS and its “ancestor” but after a while you start to feel the connection between the two. It’s worth bearing in mind that this work doesn’t so much require active listening, but rather simply being within it.