In October I was travelling around Central Asia and China, so I just about have an excuse for missing this fantastic project. Musicity was launched on 1 October at the Story of London Festival. It’s a very simple concept that brings together music and architecture, and combines the best potential of the web with the real experience of visiting buildings.

Invented by Nick Luscombe (Radio 3 DJ and music curator) and Simon Jordan of Jump Studios, Musicity currently exists in London, but the pair has plans to take it worldwide. The idea is that recording artists write an original track in response to a building that inspires them. There are so far seven artists and tracks which include Palmskin and the Trellick Tower; Ski Oakenfull and the Post Office Tower; and Ikonika for Battersea Power Station.

It’s simple to take part – you go to the location, connect to the purpose-built mobile app and stream the music.

Luscome and Jordan say that they were inspired to create Musicity by the French theorist Guy Debord who encouraged the development of 'inventive strategies for exploring cities: just about anything that takes pedestrians off predictable paths and jolts them into a new awareness of the urban landscape'. Their hope is that the project inspires people to ‘see the urban fabric in new ways and encourages them to explore the city musically, architecturally and experientially’.