Introduction

MSCTY x MEMU

Trialing New Ways to Talk About SOUND + SPACE

Since 2019 MSCTY has forged ahead with finding new ways to understand sound through rereading the spaces in which we find it, in and around Memu, a remote place in eastern Hokkaido.

Our project is built around an ongoing partnership with The University of Tokyo's Memu Earth Lab, and based at the groundbreaking Memu Earth Hotel.

 

Some of our adventures so far ...

PLAYING MEMU WORKSHOP WEEKEND w/ MAKOTO NOMURA + FRIENDS [8 images]

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Memu Earth Lab x MSCTY WORKSHOP - JULY 2019

A weekend-long workshop event including DIY parabolic microphone construction, listening to an Interstellar rocket launch, acoustic research of the site's remarkable hotel buildings w/ Paul Bavister [Bartlett School of Architecture] + rounded off by showcasing our work to Kengo Kuma + senior University of Tokyo professors.

WATCH MEMU EARTH LAB x MSCTY [JULY 2019]
Film: Sam King
Sounds: James Greer [MSCTY_Studio]

LISTENING TO THE WIND BETWEEN PILL BOXES ON MEMU BEACH w/ EISUKE YANAGISAWA [6 images]

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MSCTY_Studio Sonic Research with Ice + Snow [4 images]

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MSCTY Explores new ways to experience the world through sound and space. MSCTY Creates collaboration between physical, tangible, imagined landscapes, and sonic [space is the] place; from this we seek new ways of reading the world around us. MSCTY Invites criticism; inquiry; openness; suggestion; community. MSCTY Believes that the only boundaries [the only barriers] are dogmatic constructs to be broken down! MSCTY Believes that the quality of sound environments is as critical as quality air to breathe. No less than the Phuture of Sound is at stake: 5, 8, 6, we are MSCTY!