IT’S SUMMER is the final part of IT’S WINTER. A multi-format project comprising a music album, a book, a game and a series of digital-art collaborations.
IT’S SUMMER — Album
A music album, part of the digital opera of the same name. It tells of revelations at the dacha, the secrets of midday dreams, birches and other inhabitants of the dacha allotment universe.
Music and arrangements: Pyotr Yudkin
Production: Nikolai Neskorodov
Mixing and mastering: Saveliy Shestak
Words and music: Ilia Mazo
Apple Music
Yandex Music
Spotify
Other platforms
Music and arrangements: Pyotr Yudkin
Production: Nikolai Neskorodov
Mixing and mastering: Saveliy Shestak
Words and music: Ilia Mazo
Apple Music
Yandex Music
Spotify
Other platforms
IT’S SUMMER. Ghosts
A series of digital-art and glitch-art videos within Ilia Mazo’s digital opera IT’S SUMMER. Musicians wrote songs to verses from the poem IT’S SUMMER, while their avatars were abducted, taken into a digital environment and reimagined.
These videos reveal the mystical sides of game engines: moments when they answer with “ghosts” — bugs, glitches and entities that could never arise from the logic of the code. Music, the most elusive of substances, takes the role of these entities.
Artists: Yarn (Liza Prudnikova, Larisa LI)
These videos reveal the mystical sides of game engines: moments when they answer with “ghosts” — bugs, glitches and entities that could never arise from the logic of the code. Music, the most elusive of substances, takes the role of these entities.
Artists: Yarn (Liza Prudnikova, Larisa LI)
Book
A poem
Illustrations: Denis Rusakov
Layout and cover: Anastasia Liptsis
Publisher: TOMizdat
A5, paperback, 215 pages.
Illustrations: Denis Rusakov
Layout and cover: Anastasia Liptsis
Publisher: TOMizdat
A5, paperback, 215 pages.
Game
A dacha, a midday nap, the record has ended and rustles on; you are eight years old. Sunlight has flooded the room. IT’S SUMMER is an indie game in the genres of sandbox, babushka and midday sleep. There is no goal or meaning in the game, only May tea with the tears of Princess Noori and an endless yellow field.
The game on Steam
The game on Steam
Press
This project was made with the support of the New/open festival and the Presidential Grants Foundation.