About
Alexey Seliverstov (born in Moscow) is a Los Angeles–based composer, sound artist, and inventor whose work has been the subject of a documentary by the BBC and presented through an artist talk and sound installation at Harvard University. His practice has also been featured by Billboard, The Vinyl Factory, and Fact Magazine, following the international reach of his work shared via Instagram under @grayskiesforever.
Seliverstov is widely recognized for reshaping contemporary soundscape practice through the invention of generative artificial bird sounds—programmed sonic systems designed to behave like living organisms rather than fixed compositions. Using his own software alongside tape machines, dictaphones, reel-to-reel recorders, and physically placed sound sources, he builds environments in which sound moves through space, distance, and interaction.
His work treats places as collaborators. Drawing directly from natural sound worlds, Seliverstov blends human-made music with environmental recordings, approaching nature not as a reference but as a teacher—suggesting that the most complex and beautiful music existed long before human composition.
His projects include a large-scale, multi-hour generative installation commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall, and soundscape compositions for The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend of The Who.
