MSCTY_EXPO [REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ZONE]
Mieko Shimizu 'Soho Morphosis'

"The first time I saw the 1954 demolition plan of Soho drawn by Geoffrey Jellico, Ove Arup and Edward Mills, happened to be during lockdown in 2020.

This futuristic plan seems so cold, detached from actual people’s life and their culture and somehow coincided with the current unprecedented events of the “Pandemic”. Those designers were apparently examining ways of dealing with depopulation of the city centres after the Second World War,

if this plan had gone ahead, it would have been an artificial depopulation.

Uncannily, the pandemic has now managed to depopulate the city centre as natural phenomena.
It feels this depopulation plan was almost like an ominous premonition. "

– Mieko Shimizu"

Released through MSCTY:
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!

Listen to full track here: https://www.mscty.space/en-US/expo/mieko-shimizu-london-soho