Nick Luscombe, FRSA, is a DJ, broadcaster and regular collaborator with Venture Café Tokyo. He has an extraordinary ear for sound and musical innovation. Nick has dedicated his career to sharing his passion for music with the world around him. Some of the ways he has delivered goodness to our ears are as host of numerous BBC radio shows, Chief Music Editor for iTunes Europe, and now as the architect of CIC Japan’s own radio show, “Inspiration / Innovation Japan”. Nick has also founded MSCTY, a company that creates innovative music projects by capturing sounds from different environments and using them to craft tracks that enrich our experiences of those places. Most recently Nick worked on an exciting collaboration with the city of Utsunomiya that came about through Venture Café. We sat down to interview him about the Utsunomiya Project, his fascinating career and much, much more. Read on as Nick Luscombe unravels for us the unseen architecture of audio!

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