It is an intensely social sci-fi audio drama created in collaboration with Novaya Gazeta Europe (Russia's main opposition newspaper) for placement in Russian pirated online movie theaters (the last resources in Russia not controlled by the government).

In the process of creating the work, we used all the modern possibilities of sound design and sound recording. Therefore, listening to an audio drama gives the strong impression that you have literally just watched a real movie, although not a single picture was shown in it.


VOICE 2 (female) - How long before we can hold the deceleration steady?

VOICE 1 (male) - 30 seconds.

VOICE 2 (female) - Is the course the same?

VOICE 1 (male) - Same course.

CAPTAIN - Checking readiness for deorbiting.

CORPORAL - Done, on the third screen.

CAPTAIN - Disable gravity simulation.

CORPORAL - Roger.

DOC. - Hello, captain.

CAPTAIN - Ah, doctor! As I see, we shall lock you up in your cabin?

DOC. - That would hardly stop me.

CAP. - Uh-huh. And you came to the bridge to look at It?

VOICE 2 (female) - (back) Engine temperature is stable.

DOC. - Isn’t It beautiful?

CAP. - All planets look beautiful from space, doctor. Until you step on them.

DOC. - Well, according to our data, it has everything one needs to live.

VOICE 2 (female) - (back)Survival suits checking completed.

CAP. - So you think it’s inhabited?

DOC. - Absolutely.

CAP. - Do you think we might meet intelligent life on it?

VOICE 3 (male) - (back)Entering the planetary orbit.

DOC. - Not necessarily. This planet is capable of supporting life. And most likely it does. But our chances to come across intelligent life there are close to zero.

CAP. - Good. I’d hate to have to fight for it.

SYSTEM VOICE - Spacecraft entering the atmosphere. 96 thousand meters.

CAP. - Everyone get ready!

CORPORAL - Roger that.

VOICE 1 (male) - (back) Equatorial orbit. Adjusting.

SYSTEM VOICE - Orbit correction sensors activated.

VOICE 2 (female) - (back) Field stabilization.

DOC. - We’ll become history, captain.

CAP. - You’ll become it much sooner if you don’t buckle up, doctor. Please sit down and fasten your seat belts.

SYSTEM VOICE - Field activation system activated.

CAP. - We’re about to get a pretty good shake.

VOICE 2 (female) - (back) Energy focus is normal.

VOICE 1 (male) - (back) Re-entry angle 6 degrees.

VOICE 2 (female) - (back) 3 minutes before entering the turbulence zone.

SYSTEM VOICE - 1000 meters before landing.

CAP. - Calculate coordinates for orientated landing.

VOICE 3 (male) - (back) Roger, calculation of coordinates for orientated landing.

DOC. - Look, look! Captain, do you see that?

SYSTEM VOICE - 500 meters.

DOC. - Let’s get closer to those mountains, captain.

SYSTEM VOICE - 400 meters.

CAP. - These are not mountains, doctor! These are… buildings?!

SYSTEM VOICE - 300 meters.

DOC. - This cannot be true!

CAP. - Check them out. All of them are regular-shaped…

SYSTEM VOICE - 200 meters.

CAP. … and lined up. As if they were built under a certain plan!

DOC. - This is incredible!

SYSTEM VOICE - 100 meters.

DOC. - So, indeed there is intelligent life on this planet. Captain, let’s land on that clearing!

CAP. - Roger. Corporal? Get ready for landing.

CORPORAL - Roger, getting ready for landing.

SYSTEM VOICE - Ten.

VOICE 3 (male) - Landing sensors are on.

SYSTEM VOICE - Nine.

VOICE 1 (male) - Watch the pressure.

VOICE 2 (female) - Pressure is rising. Still normal though.

SYSTEM VOICE - Eight.

VOICE 1 (male) - Front dampers are on.

SYSTEM VOICE - Seven.

VOICE 3 (male) - Navigation lights?

VOICE 2 (female) - Working.

VOICE 3 (male) - Ready for shut-down.

SYSTEM VOICE - Six.

CAP. - Everyone, get ready for touchdown!

SYSTEM VOICE - Five, four, three, two, one.

CAP. - What the hell happened?

CORPORAL - Fire outbreak!

VOICE 3 (male) - Fire, fire!

SYSTEM VOICE - Fire on the bridge.

VOICE 2 (female) - (coughing) I can’t see anything because of smoke.

CAP. - Shut down the engine.

VOICE 1 (male) - It’s pressure!

SYSTEM VOICE - Engine shut down.

VOICE 3 (male) - Screens show nothing.

CORPORAL - If fire reaches batteries…

CAP. - Don’t stand still! Put out the fire!

VOICE 1 (male) - Easy. It’s just a pressure peak!

VOICE 3 (male) - Put it out! Put it out!

VOICE 1 (male) - That’s it. Just pressure.

SYSTEM VOICE - Fire is out.

CAP. - Turn it off, somebody!

CAP. - Is everyone okay? (After silence) I repeat, is everyone okay?

VOICE 2 (female) - (coughing)

CORPORAL - (back)Yes.

VOICE 1 (male) - (back) Alive.

DOC. - (back) I’m okay.

VOICE 2 (female) - (back) I’m alright.

VOICE 3 (male) - (back) I’m okay, I guess.

CAP. - Corporal!

CORPORAL - Yes, captain!

CAP. - Launch drones. Start scanning the planet, I need a full environmental analysis…

CORPORAL - Roger that.

CAP. - …make all possible tests, analyses, sampling – up to linguistic analysis in case you find any writing. I want to know everything! about this place and our potential enemy.

CORPORAL - Yes sir.

CAP. - And one more thing…

CORPORAL - Yes, captain?

CAP. - …send one of the drones inside these buildings. Let’s see what’s in there.

CORPORAL - Yes, captain. (to the team) Let them out.

SYSTEM VOICE - Drones launched.

CAP. - The rest of you, please keep your eyes open. Does anybody see any movement?

VOICE 1 (male) - I don’t see anything.

VOICE 3 (male) - Detectors are clear too.

VOICE 2 (female) - Seems no one is here, captain.

VOICE 3 (male) - Maybe we just don’t see them?

DOC. - Looks like we have landed in the heart of some gigantic monument. I wonder what kind of creatures built such a thing?

CAP. - And what’s even more thrilling, doctor, where did they all go?

DOC. - Perhaps, they evacuated once they saw us?

CAP. - Or they’re getting ready for attack.

DOC. - So what do we do now, captain?

CAP. - Corporal, have you got any data on the environment?

CORPORAL - Radiation level is up.

CAP. - How dangerous is this?

CORPORAL - A bit high for natural radiation level. Fairly safe for us though.

CAP. - Ok, then suit up guys, we’re going out.

VOICE 2 (female) - Here it comes.

CORPORAL - Everyone heard? Go get ready.

SYSTEM VOICE - Hull depressurized.

CAP. - And something else… arm yourselves.

CAP. - (breathing)

CAP. - Monument straight ahead. Another three hundred meters.

DOC. - What an odd construction. Could it be something hieratic? A pagan temple? Or stuff like that, huh?

CAP. - Doctor, I have this creepy feeling that we are being watched.

DOC. - Watched?

CAP. - Yes. As if thousands of eyes are looking at us out of hundreds of holes on these buildings.

CORPORAL - Captain, we got atmospheric data. Everything’s clear. We can breathe without space suits here.

CAP. - Finally! Let’s take them off.

DOC. - About time.

CAP. - Much better. Keep walking. It’s another two hundred meters to the monument.

DOC. - I cannot believe we can meet intelligent species here. I wonder what they are. Can you guess, captain, what they look like?

CAP. - Who?

DOC. - I mean, these creatures.

CAP. - Doctor?!

DOC. - What?

CAP. - Don’t move.

DOC. - Pardon?

CAP. - Don’t move. One of them is right behind you!

DOC. - What?

CAP. - (shouting) On the ground! Alien contact!

DOC. - Don’t shoot! Captain! Stop the fire!

CAP. - Cease fire!

CORPORAL - Cease fire!

CAP. - I said, cease fire!

DOC. - It’s not moving. It’s not alive.

CAP. - What?

DOC. - It’s lifeless. I mean, it’s a statue or something like that. Here, look.

DOC. - You hear? It is made of metal. Do you hear?

CAP. - Are you sure, doctor?

DOC. - Positive!

CAP. - Look at how huge it is! Do you think this is what they look like?

DOC. - Well, animals don’t build their own monuments.

CAP. - Pretty ugly creatures. This must be the head?

DOC. - I believe so. And these outstretched limbs probably helped them move around. Oh look, their limbs have their own limbs.

CAP. - Well, now we know what they look like. Corporal?

CORPORAL - Yes, captain?

CAP. - Prepare for defense. These beasts are huge, so take out grenades, turrets, large-caliber weapons…

DOC. - I think there’s no need for that, captain.

CAP. - What?

DOC. - Apparently, we won’t meet them.

CAP. - Why is that?

DOC. - See this picture from a drone, the one you’ve sent into the building? Everything inside is covered with a thick layer of dust. This place is abandoned. No one has been here for a very long time.

CORPORAL - Captain, we’ve completed full scanning of the area.

CAP. - What do you have?

CORPORAL - We’re surrounded by thousands of miles of wild flora and nothing else.

CAP. - Any sounds? Signals? Movement?

CORPORAL - None. There’s nothing living on this planet. Just traces of massive radiation.

CAP. - If radiation is this strong, then why are we still alive?

DOC. - Something happened here, but it happened at least a couple thousand years ago. The radiation background has weakened considerably, that’s why it didn’t kill us.

CORPORAL - Captain, here are satellite images. This is what the whole planet looks like. As if it’s burned out. Its entire surface is covered with severe radioactive burns.

CAP. - Doctor, what do you think happened here?

DOC. - I can’t even imagine what these poor creatures had to go through.

CAP. - But do you have any ideas?

DOC. - I’m afraid no, captain. I don’t think we will ever learn what exactly happened here.

CAP. - What else?

DOC. - We’ve got the linguistic analysis results you asked for.

CAP. - Have you managed to decode their language?

DOC. - It wasn’t a hard job. Our program has finished deciphering the hieroglyphs found on the monument. And I suppose they mean the name of this place.

CAP. - The planet?

DOC. - No no, of this very spot. A settlement, a town or whatever it is.

CAP. - So what did they call it?

DOC. - As expected, it is just a meaningless bunch of sounds to us. But I will try to articulate it. They called this place – Mos-Сow!

PACKSHOT - In case of a nuclear special operation*, all of our cities will be exposed to response attacks. Every time when reporters, deputies, or the president himself threaten its neighbors with nuclear bomb, they threaten all of us. www.nuclearmoscow.com



(*A special operation is what the Russian authorities call Russia’s war against Ukraine)

After the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, Russian officials, journalists, diplomats and even the President himself daily threaten to use nuclear weapons against Kyiv, Washington, London, Warsaw, Berlin and others.

At the same time, Russian propaganda managed to convince the Russian audience that the launch of nuclear missiles could only be from Russia. The rest of the countries will not have time to answer, or they simply have nothing to answer with. Therefore, ordinary Russian people stopped thinking about the fact that the launch of nuclear missiles would also have consequences for Russian cities, which would instantly be subjected to retaliatory strikes.

In this regard, our main task was to show the Russians that when the Russian authorities threaten to launch nuclear strikes on other countries, they also threaten the Russians themselves.


We made a social audio drama with an incredibly deep immersive audio experience.(it sounds like real movie!) This helped to immerse people in our history, so that in the end they could feel the consequences of the nuclear threats of the Russian government as close as possible to themselves.

Thanks to this project, we were able to raise a discussion in non-government controlled social media (telegram). The project brought together the oppositional Russian media, which for the duration of the project stopped competing with each other and began to work together to help people see the truth. But most importantly, part of Russian society has seriously thought about the consequences of the threats with nuclear weapons.



To create a real immersive audio experience isn't enough to use modern technologies such as 360 audio or binaural recording. It’s just a good sound. So to get a truly immersive experience, we applied a noise dubbing method used only in movies, where foley artists voice everything happening on the screen.


The problem was that audio didn't have any body movements of people or their interaction with objects which could be voiced.

So we had to come up with these invisible action!



We created a special sound script, where wrote all actions, gestures, body movements, rustles, echoes, actions of inanimate objects, sounds of nature, even differences in footsteps depending on the age and gender of the character.

Thanks to this, we’ve achieved such an atmosphere that any person could imagine and see absolutely the whole picture of what’s happening, while hearing only the sounds. Like it was a real movie! 



Due to global sanctions and the government bans on any Western content, the Russians were left without Hollywood movies, series and streaming services. It forced them to look for all the latest movies on pirate online cinemas, which are almost the last resources not controlled by the government. So it was important for us to make an audio drama, which would look and sound like a real movie. Only in that way we could put it on Russian pirate online cinemas and podcasts so that thousand of Russians, looking for new movies, could see it.