The name… Mantrid - is just my nickname. Originally, it's the name of a character - bioengineer from the sci-fi saga Lexx. This character is accordant in some sense with the kind of my professional activity…
The personality... I am not a professional musician. My professional line is related to medical researches - microbiology, virology and immunology. Because of that, every day I come into the collision of life and death. It has an effect - a philosophy always appears on the edge between life and death. I try to look at their backside... The Life and the Death - as a Mechanism, as an Abstraction, as a Tragedy, as a Triumph. The Principle, the Contradiction and the Unity...
The music... as well as a philosophy appears somewhere on the verge... Mainly, my art is inspired by and filled with the dark motives.Though, the existence of dark music by itself, the presence of aesthetics of terrible/scary/mournful things is the confirmation of the highest vital reality over illusory and imperfective human world of the good and evil.
The sound… is universal description language of the world; the higher mathematics of emotions; an alchemy of spirit. The sound is able to destroy and (or?) to create the entire worlds. Dark ambient & noise music is more close to the shaman techniques than to the music in the ordinary sense. At the first look it seems just structureless array of the acoustic information, but it's the key to percept the other layers of reality. The reality, existent alongside of the common roads but not visible for the most...
The track "Innocence: The tunes of despair" was inspired by the problem of cancer in children.
