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1-How did your interest for computers start? Which year was that?

Oh. It was year 1994. Before that mark I had no interest in computers at
all. It started when parents had bought me ZX-Spectrum. Dead in the rest
of the world, in Russia Spectrum gained extra popularity that time due to
its small price, big amount of software and simplicity of the scheme which
could be built by many radiotricians.

And after that it started. Studying BASIC, assembler, learning how to
use tracker ("Sound Tracker", that was it name)

2-What machines did you previously have? What did you do with them?

As I said, I had ZX-Spectrum 128K. My interests were quite broad, covering
programming, music writing, gaming (a bit, Spectrum is quite bad for games
:), hacking (a little bit).

3-For what specific reason did you end up making music rather than gfx, coding?

In "real life" I'm a computer science student. But I always felt it
couldn't be my only occupation. Well, I have two "passions" in me: one
passion is to the world of art, music, books, i.e. world of culture,
another passion is to the world of computers. Somehow they manage to get
with each other well.

4-Which composing programs have you been using? Which one in particular?

In chronoligical order, on PC:

1. Fast Tracker. For about a half of a year.
2. Impulse Tracker.
3. ModPlugTracker.
4. Psycle.

Now I would prefer Psycle for electronic music, and ModPlugTracker for
more traditional styles.

5-With which module did you feel you had reached your goal?

Well, listen to "Never be" on www.mp3.com/iliks
This is a smooth instrumental ballad which goes from bright to deep
sorrowful and soul-tearing mood.

6-Is there a tune you would like not to remember? For what reason?

Probably no. I write music only in good mood, so they all do bring some
good memories for me.

7-In your opinion, what's the value of a music in a demo, game?

Maybe my opinion will be cliche-like, but I think the goal of music in
film, demo is to complement on-screen action. The talent of such a
composer is measured in how good he is at fitting his music to the visual
images. Though I must add such music differs greatly from regular music.
Music in demos/movies/games is generally less bright and catchy, while
musician at his solo work could create more interesting things. Just my
opinion.

8-At present, are you still composing? For professional or leisure purposes?

Yes. Now I'm doing only mp3 because I don't want to my music to sound like
a cheap cassete player. Yeah, music content is the main part, but sound
quality also counts.
I compose music only for pleasure.

9-What do you think of today's pieces of music such as mpeg,wave,midi,etc...?

mp3. Great. I don't understand all the fuss which was in 98-99 about demos
using mp3s. People, mp3 playback eats only ~6% of CPU time on my Celeron
333. And we are getting professional quality sound, with good mixing etc.
While playback of a GOOD module in realitme could take up to 50% of CPU,
if not more. And another disadvantage of modules - cpu load depends on the
moment of music. I mean in place where a small number of instruments plays cpu
load will be low, in other places it will be high. mp3s have constant
load.
Of course you always could use 8-bit 4-channel modules (and
there's nothing wrong in it, I like old music too), but nowadays it would
sound quite minimalistic, wouldn't it?

10-Could you tell us some of your all times favourite tunes?

Purple Motion/Scaven/Necros-mania didn't catch me. I liked more
traditional music, such as: Acumen, Chavez, Mick Rippon, Quasian,
Warder, ...

11-Are you planning to make an audio cd with some of your music remastered?

Well, I suppose everybody plans to do this some time :)

12-What bands are you currently listenning to?

Nightwish, Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, ...

13-What does/did the amiga/c64 scene give you?

Nothing. I never had amiga or c64 - they were very rare in Russia. Though
of course I know them thanks to the emulators.

14-Are you still active in the scene these days?

Yes. I write articles in Hugi magazine.

15-Anyone to greet? Anything left to say? Feel free...

I would thank Claus Volko (Adok) and Taras Brizitsky for friendship and
positive remarks towards my music.

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