When you began to be interested in electronical music?

I suppose it all began, when I heard a Kraftwerk's track — "The Robots". I heard it from a cassette, played on my dad's "Vesna202" recorder. It was the only electronic track in my dad's humble record library — the rest was comprised from foreign disco music. Later parents bought a "Mashina Vremeni" LP, the album "As long as the candle burns", where were also used sounds of non-acoustic instruments. Of course, there was other music which I liked, but namely these works have inspired me the most back then. Ever since then I feel a strong constant interest for electronic music.

When has the desire to create something by yourself emerged?

Well, already back then I dreamed about a synthesizer — dreamed try to create something myself. The concept of a "synthesizer" itself seemed something amazing, ethereal. The sounds is born not in a normal, natural way, but in some mystical (as it seemed for me back then) way. However, a purchase of a synthesizer was out of the question in the early 80s — it costed a fortune and only large studios in USSR could afford such equipment. But when I got my first computer, I was finally able to do something!

Have you studied music or mostly experimented by yourself?

I never thought about a professional career. In the beginning it was more like a game, it was just interesting to modify various musical fragments. Later I started to work on more difficult tasks: to allocate different instruments and switch them with something else. After all these experiments I had my own musical ideas. Sure, I wanted to start realizing them, and I only had to think of a way to make it. A acoustic guitar would never fit in the sound of my ideas. A piano at a friend's house also no make what I expected it to. But a computer has opened a wide space for experiments.

So, a computer took the place of all instruments?

Not all, of course, but it allowed to do many things, and it was really interesting to explore it. My first computer was a ZX-Spectrum with 64 Kb memory only. It was looked as a small keyboard with a monitor and a tape recorder — all programs have been uploaded from a tape cassete, because a disk drive was an inexcusable luxury. The sound was only mono. Sure, that kind of sound was not enough, and I started to use various engineering constructions. For example, I've re-programmed the printer port to transform signals into sound through a special converter. Later I've learned to attach and program various analog devices. Their sound was simple, but very rich and beautiful.

Do you still prefer to experiment with analog sound, despite the enormous diversity and plentifulness of digital sound sources?

Is true. Digital synthesis gives more opportunities, but it's still not possible to submit the charm of the analog sound. In fact, I'm working on mastering, arrangement and other things using digital technologies, but still prefer analog sound sources. Analog sound is extraordinary beautiful, it allows to create amazing moods and wonderful music. I used digital effects before, but one day my friend has given me an analogue reveberator. I was so impressed, that couldn't get my hands of it for a long time, and my experiments resulted in the track "Las Ten".

There definitely is some kind of nostalgia for the 80s in your music. Yes, there is :-)

It was a very romantic time: unexplored space, the cosmic race, science fiction, movies: "Star Trak", "Babylon 5", "Star wars", "Solaris" by Tarkovsky … and of course music: disco, electronic music, Klaus Schulze, J.M.Jarre etc. And last question today: what your opinion about “Copy KILL Music”? I totally agree. Most problem not because composer will be hungry, but because copy kill publisher, so, no publisher — no music.