Ostap Manuliak
About: Ostap Manuliak’s preferred genre is electroacoustic music, and his work mostly concerns combining pre-made electronic beats and sounds, live electronic music, and sound processing acoustic instruments, controlled by motion sensors, in his performances and recordings.
From 2004 to 2017 he participated in numerous workshops led by composers such as Samuel Andreyev (Canada), Carola Bauckholt (Germany), Stefano Gervasoni (Italy), Dmitri Kourliandsky (Russia), Sergej Newsky (Russia-Germany), Serhii Piliutikov (Ukraine), Boguslaw Schäffer (Poland), Yuval Shaked (Israel), Martin Smolka (Czechia), Gerhard Stäbler (Germany), and Wojciech Widlak (Poland).
During the 2018–19 academic year he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) of Stanford University as a Fulbright fellow.
International performances and experience:
- 2020 – Premiere of Oracle II for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and electronic music. Ukrainian Contemporary Music Festival, Lang Hall, New York
- 2019 – Premiere of Transgression V for recitation and 4-channel electronic/fixed recording, Krakow Composer Music Days, MOCAK Museum Krakow
- 2019 – Premiere of the AV project Graphic Memory (together with Nazar Skrypnyk), Solvay Center for Contemporary Art, Krakow
- 2019 – Premiere of his work Oracle for wind quintet, ISCM World Music Days Tallinn
- 2019 – Wind quintet of the Estonian orchestra PBG, Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia
- 2019 – Premiere of the multimedia-AV project Sounds from Behind the (Absent) Wall, CCRMA Stage, Stanford University, USA
- 2019 – Premiere of Lithos, an ambisonic projection of an 8-channel fixed-media composition, Bing Concert Hall, Stanford, USA.
International collaboration:
Manuliak is the co-founder of the NURT art association, director of the Vox Electronica international festival of electroacoustic music, and the musical curator of the Tetramatyka international festival of audiovisual art.
Contact: [email protected]