“In fact, high fashion houses now thrive only through ready-to-wear lines, franchises, that is, production licenses, and perfume series. At the beginning of the 20th century, high fashion houses began producing perfumes and cosmetics: already in 1911, Paul Poiret was the first to launch the “Rosine” perfume, Chanel followed suit in 1921, releasing her famous “Chanel No. 5”, Madame Lanvin created her “Arpeggio” in 1923, and Patou “Joy” (joy) - “the most expensive perfume in the world” - in 1930.

It so happened in my destiny that for almost thirty years I have been living in two houses - in St. Petersburg (my small - large homeland) and Pyatigorsk (part of the large Caucasian province). I have never experienced cognitive dissonance, suffering or melancholy about this. Everywhere I feel good, warm and cozy. What I mean is that life itself and, of course, scientific interests prompted the study of these so-called “dichotomous” spaces: metropolitan and provincial, western and eastern.

On January 16, the DOM Cultural Center will host a performance of Alexey Syssoev’s play “Wallpapers_3_Duets” - this time by three duets. However, we decided to communicate with the composer for a completely different reason. In this interview, Alexey will not talk about why he decided to turn to the most intimate of all possible options for performing this score - a duet.

In the form of thematic collections , radio.syg.ma offers a return to archive materials. The second collection consists of immersive mixes in which the effect of presence is created through rough sound textures, non-musical fragments, elements of musique concrète and noise music. An exciting and challenging session, focusing on musique concrète, experimental electronic music and ambient music. Organic rhythms and abstract textures in the mix from Perila.