3.2 – The Sea-mother

– Yanis Koussim

Emiliano summons Pavel and Mels to Algeria to help investigate sightings of figures coming out of the sea to take iron and steel back into the Mediterranean.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Steve Roach – “Mercurius”
Petri Kuljuntausta – “Freedom”
Listening Session – “Wet Roads”
Pausal – “Murmuration I”
Brambles – “Deep Corridor”
Autechre – “Overand”
Christina Vantzou – “Garden of Forking Paths”
Kali Malone – “Glory Canon III”
Anthene – “amber”
Sarah Davachi – “At Hand”

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3.1 – His Approach is Swift

– Alberto Roque

In September 1962, a pair of Matryoshka agents go to the forests of Cuba to help investigate a series of unexplained eclipses.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Chubby Wolf – “The Most Contrived and Privy to Sense”
Sinoia Caves – “Sundown in the New Arcades (Milky Way Echo)”
Lucy Railton – “Torch Duet”
The Cinematic Orchestra – “Reel Life (Evolution II)”
65daysofstatic – “Monolith”
Bengalfuel – “Brimstone”
Bengalfuel – “Percy”
Akira Rabelais – “Notturno (Loverly)”
Locust – “If You Knew”
Federico Durand – “Racimos de Luz”

2.9 – The Atrocity Exhibition

…, Hassan Tabrizi

Players
Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Nick (they/them) – Donatas Juska
Josh (he/they) – Meriton Cela

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Jon Hassell – “Last Night the Moon Came”
Stephen Scott – “Minerva’s Web”
Celer – “No Sleep in Medan”
Arnold Dreyblatt – “High Life”
BJ Nilsen – “Black Light”
Sarah Davachi – “Stations II”
Viktor Orri Árnason and Yair Elazar Glotman – “Eruption”
Dirty Beaches – “Displaced”
Stephen Scott – “Resonant Resources”
Greg Haines – “So It Goes”
Ernst Reijseger – “Shadow”

2.8 – The Sixth Dictionary

Players

Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Nick (they/them) – Donatas Juska
Josh (he/they) – Meriton Cela

Music

utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Sarah Davachi – “Buhrstone”
Ryoji Ikeda – “Luxus 1-3”
Biosphere – “Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings”
Locust – “If You Knew”
Matthewdavid – “Mycelia”
Vcam – “Parallel_arc”
Circuit Des Yeux – “Philo”

2.7 – Point Visser

Players

Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Nick (they/them) – Donatas Juska
Josh (he/they) – Meriton Cela

Music

utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Apocryphos – “Heartsick”
utopologist – “Lost at Sea”
Eliane Radigue – “Kyema (Intermediate States)”
Ryan Roth – “Unpaid Overtime”
Jon Gibson – “Cycles”
utopologist – “Point Visser”
Michel Banabila & Machinefabriek – “Cassina”
Issorine – “Tårlös Sorg”
HVAD, Pan Dijing – “Zhao Hua”
Lankum – “Ode to Lullaby”

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Players

Dan (he/him) – Sasha Zakharov
Nick (they/them) – Pyotr Alexandrovich Timur

Music

utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Bengalfuel – “Mountain”
Phill Niblock – “Feedcorn Ear”
Machinefabriek – “Zink”
Wouter Veldhuis – “Blue Forest I – III”
Djivan Gasparyan – “I Will Not Be Sad In This World”

2.6 – Point Nemo

Players

Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Nick (they/them) – Donatas Juska
Josh (he/him) – Meriton Cela

Music

utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Kara-Lis Coverdale – “Moments In Love”
Loscil – “Red Tide”
utopologist – “Southern Ocean”
Robert Turman – “Flux 2”
Bing Satellites – “In and Out of Reality”
Pauline Oliveros – “Ione”
Sarah Davachi – “Burgundy”

2.5 – The Lockbox

Hans Printz, Agreement

Players

Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Nick (they/them) – Donatas Juska

Music

spiders – “matryoshka theme”
Nivhek – “After its own death: Side A”
Phillip Wilkerson – “The Edge of Being”
Oneohtrix Point Never – “Last Known Image of a Song – Ryuichi Sakamoto Rework”
Brian Eno – “Matta”
Meredith Monk – “Earth Seen From Above”
Biosphere – “From a Solid To a Liquid”
Christina Vantzou & Echo Collective – “Glissando for Bodies and Machines in Space”
Sarah Davachi – “In Staying”
Between Interval – “Septimal Laws”
Abul Mogard – “Quiet Dreams”
Susumu Yokota – “Gekkoh”
Deipkier – “Craven Faults”
Ingram Marshall – “Fragility Cycles (“Gambuh”)”
Stephen Scott – “Resonant Resources”

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Daniel Sherrin – Bombed House, Caen, Normandy

Players

Dan (he/him) – Ilya Kozlov
Nick (he/him) – Leonid Polenko

Music

spiders – “matryoshka theme”
Mary Jane Leach – “Dowland’s Tears”
Wouter Veldhuis – “It Appears to Have Done So Without”
Jon Gibson – “Cycles”
Minami Deutsch – “New Pastoral Life”
Steve Reich – “Drumming – Four Tet Remix”
Masayoshi Fujita & Guy Andrews – “Needle Six, pt. 1”
patricia – “Liminal States”
Kevin MacLeod – “Irregular”
Jóhann Jóhannsson & Hildur Guðnadóttir & Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – “End of Summer, Pt. 3”
Colin Stetson – “The Lure of the Mine”
Federico Nardella – “Il Riflesso Opaco”
Paul Robeson – “Song of the Volga Boatmen”

2.4 – Gretchen’s First Experience with the Sun

Albert Goodwin, Apocalypse

Players

Dan (he/him) – Sr. Sgt. Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Josh (he/him) – Meriton Cela
M (they/them) – Bernhard Ebner
Nick (he/him) – Donatas Juska

Music

spiders – “matryoshka theme”
Listening Mirror – “Outside Heaven”
r beny – “full blossom of the evening”
Steve Roach – “Immanent”
Petri Kuljuntausta – “Freedom”
BJ Nilsen – “Black Light”
utopologist – “The Auction”
John Surman – “Edge of Illusion”
Caterina Barbieri – “Perspectiva”
Max Corbacho – “Pillar Ascension”
W.A. Mozart & Academy of St. Martin in the Fields – “Lacrymosa”
Greg Haines – “So It Goes”
Arnold Dreyblatt – “Harmonics”
HVAD, Pan Dijing – “Zhao Hua”
Scanner – “Insulation Mix (after G.F. Handel’s Messiah)