Song of the Lost Soldier | 4

 My acquaintance with the EBM genre began with an interest in such bands as Skinny Puppy, Hocico, Suicide Commando. It was their early works that caught on with a dirty and raw sound, from which they both nevertheless moved away, but nevertheless retained something in themselves, despite the rather great fame that came to them over time.

 Once, in search of some performers of a similar orientation, I came across several very interesting VKontakte communities (it should be noted: the joy of this social network is that it provides access to a large collection of various music, which would be difficult to find outside of it, and for me it's like a breath of fresh air in our world of prohibitions and restrictions).

 The first community is led, as I understand it, by the Frenchman Eric Braun, somehow connected with this kind of music, and he has good taste! This community is dedicated, as the annotation in the band's header says, to the curious who wish to discover dark, disturbing, noisy or emotional musical alternatives from the past & present.

 Let it be the second. Here - Rare EBM, Minimal, Industrial for the whole family. An excellent collection on this topic. And all releases until about 2000s. A miracle, a miracle.

 Or here - the calm noise of everyday life or ritual tunes, which sometimes the soul needs so much, but which is hard to find among garbage and tinsel in most other communities.

 There are also releases from the ancient, golden 1970-1980s, when such magic still took place.

 I also want to note this community for adherence to the roots of the direction and less attention to what can be called a new wave.

 Once such a story happened to me. We walked with a friend at one large factory facility, some of the buildings of which are in a dilapidated, abandoned state.

 In the courtyard of one building, we saw a man with an easel, who drew the ruins of a factory from life, and literally a minute later, a guard appeared out of nowhere and advised us all to leave this place, but the man with an easel asked permission to continue his work, because he is more silent than travelers like us. The guard invited him to go to the next building, which he did.

 I managed to forget about it, but after a while, when I was looking for some darkfolk album, I accidentally stumbled upon the community of this person - I understood this from his work, which flies like an arrow through the factory ruins that he painted.

 - What materials do you make masks from and what materials in general warm you like glass wool?

 - I love natural and archaic materials: metal, wood, gypsum, bread crumb, bone, stone, paper-cardboard is also suitable. I have a great liking for non-ferrous metals such as copper and brass, I don't like plastic and anything artificial. But this is a floating rule for rubber, because this material was actively used in the middle and a little at the beginning of the last century - during the war, it seems to me interesting.

 - Volcanic rocks, scars from a lightning strike - in which natural phenomena and simple things can you find inspiration and a breath of life?

 - I am very pleased with thunder and storm. Thunder, thunder gives rise to some inexplicable jubilation inside. Also, the blizzard is very happy if you have somewhere to hide, you can even make tea or something stronger ...

 - Are you interested in the work of glass blowers?

 - Working with glass is at the moment not yet discovered by me a craft, but I would like to hope that hands will reach it. But now my soul gravitates more towards metal casting.

 - Can AI with a 3D printer become an independent artist and how to shoe such a flea?

 - It seems to me that a huge step has already been taken towards this, Yandex has created a gallery of neural network art, and I find the works presented there extremely interesting. In general, everything related to AI and neural networks, I consider to be something incredible.

 Several years ago, Ilya Grishaev, a Perm artist, told me about a site that can create a pictorial image from a schematic sketch, there was a choice - a cityscape, a cat or a dog, and something else ... And I thought it would be interesting to try to portray another subject and see what comes out in the end - I must say that I got some interesting results.

 In the Museum of the History of Perm University, I was shown a vase printed on a 3D printer, like some kind of antique, and it looked quite interesting. But in general I have no sympathy for plastics, polymers and other similar materials.

 - What is your relationship with death and what kind of graveyard fence would you prefer? Coldwave or Post-Punk Funeral Orchestra? The last word…

 - It's funny to say such things, but I was more interested in the topic of death in childhood, I remember asking my mother - when will we die?

 The last word? .. Oh, well, here I would wish you not to give up and go in spite of it, even though it is difficult ... Through ash and darkness, through laughter and crying ... And you need to read letters in the morning, and reread them in your mind or by candlelight ...

 Silence helps you win!