Xena Haspyd

(undo despot) · artist, composer · Kyiv, Ukraine

alicehaspyd@gmail.com undo-despot.github.io/haspyd.github.io soundcloud.com/undo_despot instagram.com/haspyd

Awards

2026VIA – VUT Indie Awards, Best Experiment — Disturbed Ground (∄ × CTM Festival), incl. Heavy Waters. Verband unabhängiger Musikunternehmer*innen, Reeperbahn Festival, Hamburg

Selected Performances & Presentations

2026Faust (1926) — teaser screening, Goethe-Institut, Kyiv (Jul)
2026Heavy Waters — Disturbed Ground, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (Apr)
2026Heavy Waters (premiere) — Disturbed Ground, CTM Festival, Radialsystem, Berlin (Jan)
2025EXPO 2025 — Presentation of Europe, Belgium Pavilion, Osaka
2025Sonic Interventions, with Genevieve Murphy — TIME BASED, Scotland (Jun)
2024minimalistic noise, live set — Otel, Kyiv (Nov)
2023TYME — Kantine am Berghain, Berlin (Oct)
2023RIDNE, with Standard Deviation — CTM Festival, Berlin
2023EM-visia — 8-channel electroacoustic performance, Kyiv

Commissions & Projects

2026Faust (1926) — fixed sound design for F. W. Murnau's film; premiere Nov 2026 · first 30 min
2026Exceedance — data sonification of seven years (2019–2026) of Ukraine's state water-quality register (solo)
2025–26Heavy Waters — audiovisual performance with Zeynep Schilling and alen hast + myk rudik (u2203 studio); commissioned by ∄ and CTM Festival, supported by the Goethe-Institut Co-production Fund

Side Projects

2026asemic archive — hand-soldered tin and copper objects, edition of five

Education

2019–20Architecture (one year completed) — Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine

Professional Experience

2022–23R&D, military aerospace — development of FPV drones and fixed-wing aircraft, Ukraine

Tools

SuperCollider (incl. mi-UGens), TidalCycles, IanniX, Max, Logic Pro · Blender, Nomad Sculpt, Substance Painter, Unreal Engine 5 · charcoal, pencil, soldering, brass and tin metalwork