SELENUS was created by composer Oleg Troyanovsky together with a team of designers, artists, and cultural historians — each bringing their discipline to a single idea: that personal identity can be encoded in sound.
Biography
Oleg Troyanovsky
Composer
Troyanovsky is a composer and media artist based in New York, trained at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His work finds music inside systems that were never meant to produce it: chemical elements, heraldic emblems, historical codes, prison alphabets, names, and dates. The material often originates from hidden words or real-world data encoded directly into the score — drawing structure from lived reality.
This line of work includes Periodic Table, a composition derived from the structure of the chemical elements; Music Found in a Coat of Arms, a sound installation translating a family heraldic emblem into music; Encrypted in Music, a documentary on hidden codes in classical composition, which received the Grand Prix at Prix Italia in 2015; Radio Symphony Musical Observatory, which received a Special Prize at Prix Europa in 2015; and Tap Code Songs, an interactive sound installation presented as part of Pictures from the Dead House at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College — in which the secret tap alphabet used by political prisoners became the source of music.
His music has been performed by the London Symphony Orchestra and presented in museums, theaters, broadcasts, and film projects across Europe and the United States. In 2020 he was among the winners of the HBO / Warner Bros. Westworld Scoring Competition, judged by J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy, and Ramin Djawadi.
SELENUS began as a private commission — an original piano piece encoding two names and a date, made as a wedding gift. It became a project when the central question of Troyanovsky’s work turned toward the most personal material: a name, a date, and the person behind them.