Wołodymyr Olszański / Small Centres of the World Residences

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Volodymyr Olshanskyi (1987) - producer and sound engineer, co-founder of the audio publishing house 'Audiostories' and the Józef Mayen Radio Drama Studio in Lviv.

Works with soundscapes, recording them to create original audio productions and for acoustic performances. For the past three years, he has been a producer and sound engineer for poetic audio projects recorded by poets for Audiostories: the poetry audiobook by Bohdana Matiyash “Song of Songs” (2021), Iryna Starovoyt “Groningen Manuscript” (2022), the audiobook of wartime poems from 2013-2023 by Halyna Kruk “Bukwar/BookWar” (2023), the latest poems voiced by Kateryna Mihalitsyna “Transient Voices” (2024), the poetic audiobook by Kateryna Yehoruszkyna “Woodrhythms” (2024), Hutsul poetry by Vasyl Zelenchuk “Gruni ta j grażdy,” the poems by Bohdan Ihor Antonych “Great Harmony” (2024). Producer and sound engineer for acoustic performances: the acoustic performance woven from the sounds of Bruno Schulz’s house “In Search of a Voice. Following Doda” as part of “SchultzFest24” in Drohobych, sound engineer for the acoustic performance of Debora Vogel’s poems “In the Sounds of the City” as part of the “Second Autumn” project (2024). Producer and sound engineer for audiobooks, nonfiction literature: Yaroslav Hrytsak “Overcoming the Past: Global History of Ukraine” (2022), Timothy Snyder “The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke” (2024), Bohdan Tycholoz “Dr. F. A Small Book About the Great Franko” (2022). Producer and sound engineer for superproductions, audio plays: Ivan Franko “The thorn in the leg. A tale from the life of the Hutsuls” (2024), audio stories by Jan Andruszewski “From the Land of Tears and Beauty” (2022), sound film “The Gospel of John” (2021)."

During his residency in Krasnogruda, Volodymyr is working on the audio project “AntonychaGolos”, namely on creating the text for a future acoustic performance around the figure and life of the iconic Ukrainian poet Bohdan Igor Antonych. Also, after traveling and recording soundscapes and sounds of nature in Antonych’s places in Bortiatyn, Ukraine and in villages in the Lemko region, Poland, he is preparing a catalog of sounds for music and sound design in a future performance. Working with archives, poems from Antonych’s early collections “Privytitnya zhitya” and “Velyka harmoniya”, processing memories, letters and audio recordings containing the author’s favorite songs from the archive of the Antonych’s Museum in Bortiatyn. The residency time is spent on creating a libretto for a documentary-poetic, acoustic performance about Antonych’s life and work.