MSCTY_ZINE 02
IN THE SPRING
Welcome to the latest edition of MSCTY_ZINE. What has transpired in the time between, you ask?
Well, the archive is slowly but surely growing into the still-shiny-new site. Check out our selection from this below of some recently rediscovered adventures in Singapore [w/ Jon Hopkins among others]. Speaking of the archive, we couldn’t let the passing of cassette tape inventor Lou Ottens go unmentioned, so we've dug into the vaults to unearth a 2017 homage to the humble tape [+ a few years on it's interesting how much more of a revival the format has enjoyed since then].
Moving to the present and Spring sees us launch a sonic exploration of the Trans-Pennine Express that is The Rochdale Canal – through the eyes of the brilliant Lone Taxidermist.
We are also delighted to share a new MSCTY_STUDIO collaboration that Londoners can experience [in person!] soon – the Japan Pavilion at London Design Biennale, which we hope while travel is troublesome may help form international connections through sound.
Speaking of which, hope ye listeners enjoy our new Tokyo-based series MSCTY_Radio Tokyo on Resonance FM as much as we like making it. Broadcasting on Sunday afternoons at 1500 UK time + to the world online, too.
Back then, to the ZINE at hand. Dig it!
TRAILS + WAYS
What we've been up to this season.
NEW AT MSCTY.SPACE
Industrial-era engineering marvel + sound collide in Lone Taxidermist's sonic response to the Rochdale Canal.
MSCTY x The Rochdale Canal
w/ LONE TAXIDERMIST
London Design Biennale 2021's Japan Pavilion sees MSCTY_Studio recordings interpreted as "Reinventing Texture”, which links London + Tokyo through a multi-sensory tribute to Japanese Washi paper-making and papier-mâché.
MSCTY_Studio w/ Toshiki Hirano + Clare Farrow
REINVENTING TEXTURE
Get a taste of our favourite festival through our creations + curations of interactive on-site structures fusing field recording, sound art, and innovative architecture.
MSCTY_STUDIO x Wonderfruit
SONIC ELEMENTS
A weekly sound journey through Tokyo via field recordings, music, interviews and exclusive MSCTY tracks and happenings.
MSCTY_TX
RADIO TOKYO ON RESONANCE FM
RAMBLE ON
Words from Nick Luscombe + Midori Komachi, Sam Mackay, Rebecca Morrill and Richard Foster.
NEW READING AT MSCTY.SPACE
THE GARDEN OF UNEARTHED DELIGHTS
A classic MSCTY archive playlist from Singapore, 2012.
LISTEN AT MSCTY.SPACE
MSCTY x Singapore
Sonic adventures in the Lion City w/ local + international artists soundtracking the cutting-edge meets tradition of the city state's iconic spaces + places.