About
Alexey Seliverstov is a Los Angeles–based composer, sound artist, and inventor. His work has been the subject of a BBC documentary and presented through an artist talk and sound installation at Harvard University. It has also been featured by Billboard, The Vinyl Factory, and Fact Magazine, reaching millions of views through Instagram under @grayskiesforever.
Seliverstov’s work has become associated with a distinct approach to contemporary soundscape practice through the invention of generative artificial bird sounds—programmed sonic environments designed to behave as living organisms rather than fixed compositions. Using his own software such as Hachijo Tape Manipulator 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, as well as a sound installation and artist talk at Harvard University, and soundscape compositions for The Age of Anxiety by Pete Townshend of The Who.
