Interviews - Interview with the legendary musician Mikhail Belousov (Amadeous Voxon / Flash Inc.)

<b>Interviews</b> - Interview with the legendary musician Mikhail Belousov (Amadeous Voxon / Flash Inc.)

Interview with Mikhail Belousov
by aGGreSSor


Following an interview with Alexei Astafiev, it was decided
to prepare an interview with the second "dad" from Flash Inc. -
Mikhail Belousov. This decision was motivated by one
kind of role he played in the Spectrum
Russian stage as one of the composers have served
reference, and then make their music to take up the tracker, 
many and many sinkleristov, and as "a person with a soldering 
iron" have shown, that can be bolted to the Spectrum and 
support hardware, performed for other platforms, raise the 
topic of your sound card for Spectrum. In a word, meet:


tPA?: The mention of your nickname is most sinkleristov
nostalgic memories of your calls, literate and
AY-tuned melodic compositions created in the listener
a very special mood. Your approach to trekerstvu gave food
for reflection and subsequently gave birth to many remarkable
Composers on Spectrum, but they were already "after." Known
also, that you're one of the first connected to the Spectrum 
Covox and began move it to the masses, followed by various 
modifications, the most "Heaped" of which is considered 
SoundDrive. You also probably belong to the first attempts to 
connect the modem to the Speccy. Flash Inc. supported its 
development program, but many of your programs have not reached 
the people. Now note the question: How do you managed to 
combine physics and poetry, in the literal sense this word?


Voxon!: I "childhood" was interested in electronics.
Acquainted with Alex Raider'om, we began to think together 
about how how to make sure that we have computers? As time 
passed and all (Including components) has become more 
affordable. I will not to tell the story of what we had to com 
Speccy - a few people are interested. I just looked at the toys 
and, For some reason, did not try to play them. First of all, I

reviewed the schedule, listened to music ... Here! The game 
without the music I in general were not interested. I wanted 
something of his - homemade. And since the beginnings of 
programming at Z-80 with ASM I already had (again thanks to 
Raider'u), I began to write all sorts of procedures to sound. 
8-)) subsequently failed even make a simple editor that 
operates on the principle of WHAM!. With regard to the 
balancing, I was just curious to mess with soldering iron. But 
the piece of iron and is more formally silicon wafer with 
provodochkami if it does not make work. Had once again sit at 
the ASM ... In addition, we developed the concept of demos - 
GIFT. Those demos we did not just congratulated, as it were, 
showing your friends your level. 8-) As for music, I listened 
to everything from his childhood in a row when My older brother 
bought a tape recorder. And the harmonious sound just spinning 
in my head, but the music I still do not know, and I do not. 
8-)) 

tPA?: In fact the concept and tradition of demo-congratulation -
gift `well, congratulations spektrumskogo sceners scenery, on 
the day birth, scenery beloved cat, until congratulations 
sceners his loving hamster made as something midway between the

intro and the actual demo, provoked a lively response in 
spektrumskih masses, has inspired many imitators and antagonists

(When the demo was written to convey to the enemy and fuck
sling mud at him in the eyes of the public - the very beginning
large-scale platform wars). But the question arises -
a demo can not be represented on the compo, to some
party (possibly the omission of modern party, could be
arrange such a compo at the very end as an epilogue), the form
its submission - not serious, no one would ever think to call 
gift - Art, regardless of its realization and self-worth.

Which resulted in the emergence of this style? I could
assume a demonstration that the Russian-speaking spektrumskaya
scene has become so advanced that for her to write a demo so
as simple as congratulations on his birthday ... I would like 
to know even prehistory. Maybe ever (in theory)

adoption of this tradition, Russian Amiga scene (on the 
principle of the reverse process - all the best with the 
Spectrum on the Amiga)? Word You:


Voxon!: This kind of demos appeared as follows. In Raider'a
was birthday and I just could not come up at the
gift. Money to give - it's bad taste. Clarify that a person
desirable, there was no time ... Card sign ... 8-)))
That's the idea the e-postcard. In the morning I quickly
wrote the music, then bouncing nakodiroval spraytik with running
string inside, and an indicator of AY. Completion of all was
writing the text "postcards." All this took me about
hours 3. The first GIFT was ready. After I showed him
his friends, such as quick (in writing) GIFT invented and
Mavrin Igor. Actually it was not an active Flash member'om, but
in all the joyous events took fully engaged.
Then it went in our tradition within the group, well, a little 
over its limits. This kind of demonstrashek never had a purpose

claim to any part of any DemoParty, but simply
was like a training ground to improve their
skills. Each time the Gift becomes more difficult and even
several parts. 8-)) It is possible that because of these things 
and not appended was HOCUS-POCUS, and not brought to its logical

completion of IRIS, who was walking around the world in a deep 
or bete assembled piece by piece totally by other people. I 
believe that Greeting Card Contest has the right to exist on

all without exception platforms; that they can not be assessed
so much design or music, how many text greetings
the originality and "jokes".

tPA?: In a sense, your composition on the Spectrum resemble
Old skulnuyu music from old Amiga demos. Can it be
considered an accident? I would like to know your familiarity 
with the platform, whether it influenced your creativity and 
your thereto attitude? ..


Voxon!: It is ... At one time we got tape recordings
all sorts of music from the Amiga demos and toys. Subsequently
caught even the videotape. The recording quality was not very
good, but enough to understand a little of the charm
platform. I just liked the style of music. Especially his
role previously played and Polish musicians.

tPA?: If we consider the hypothetical situation of your
return to the stage, whether it is possible to assume that you 
choose Amiga scene as untilled field experiments, or it will be

PC-scene? What considerations were dictated by your choice of 
PC, in when good two-thirds spektrumskih journals

Amiga promoted as the next platform after stsenovuyu
Spectrum? Just Do not succumb to propaganda or standing behind 
it, something more?


Voxon!: I had a fairly strong sympathy for the Amiga, since
its possibilities were truly to my liking. But absolute
inattention traders to Novosibirsk, and it seems to me
inflated price, has reduced it all to naught. The more so 
because his father had already bought a PC and a headache, I 
became less. Choose had the easiest path. This PC already had 
all the opportunities that I needed (16 bit sound

map 44100Kgts - stereo). With it copes Fast Tracker
2. More I did not really need, so I decided - that I will
deal only with music.

tPA?: "Natives" from the Spectrum did a lot for
Russian Amiga demoscene (one might even say that only they
something did / do), but the former / present spektrumskie
stsenovye composers virtually nothing on it is not noted.
There is also a tendency that the transition to PC / Amiga 
sceners "Lost" and start doing quite mediocre and no one but 
them not interesting stuff, even in trendy music

directions. Do you think there is any future for stsenovogo
musician on the Amiga and now Russian Amiga scene at all?
Can help her "come" with Spectrum?

Voxon!: What seemed to me more interesting music on the 
Spectrum. It the limited possibilities of synthesis. All 
pleasantness was how the three rectangular and mediocre noise

generators to create original, unique sound. Than
cooler and more original "probulknetsya", the better. 8-)) At
actually there (at Speccy) really existed creative
(Eg, synthesis of drums, echo, smooth transitions). And when
provides virtually unlimited opportunities, then
composition of music is just writing songs. Here I am,
Of course, all simplified, but I get the impression
that music is written in a more advanced computer
becomes an imitation of (and to a lesser or greater degree
pathetic). That is why the acquisition of a powerful computer 
with advanced sound card, I just was not interested, and I

music scored. So, in my opinion, the more primitive
music device, the more fun to work with him. Otherwise
You can procreate with 10 tracks per day, and they will listen 
to incubator. But I regularly listen to the results of every 
Music Compo and there, I would say is absolutely amazing things 
that are so hard haunting! It seems to me that this issue still

long time will remain open.

                                                  Part 2>>



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shift it to the tracker, pick up instruments (often to
to achieve the sound you want have to sort up to 600
instruments), the components of instruments (two sounds 
simultaneously or more instruments can give an absolutely 
unpredictable and very beautiful sound. Next comes the 
arrangement, selection podzvuchek harmonic henchmen, the 
calculation of stereo. Finally selected effects, filters and 
reverb. With regard to education, then I do not have it. I just 
do not want to guided by some canons, but to do everything as 
the soul whatever. I do not usually wrong. In music, I'm not 
doing any preference - it depends on the performance and the 
performer. I equally brings pleasure and classical music and 
all the "Hellish." I love finding beautiful moments. The truth 
is that want to make changes, but it will be a variation on a 
theme or remix. Such things I do not like it. Of the musicians I

like ... All the same, all do not list. Them very much. AND
want to make it even more!