Myth of Tomorrow Album Release
Part of the Shinboku Series at Rivington
Celebrating Erika Dohi’s Studio Album Release, Myth of Tomorrow
November 3, 2025
6pm doors, 6:30pm preshow, 7:30pm concert
1 Rivington Street at Bowery NYC
We’re launching Shinboku — a new Metropolis Ensemble series at Rivington led by pianist and composer Erika Dohi with Forgotten Futures — celebrating the release of Erika’s album Myth of Tomorrow, which arrives October 24, 2025 on Switch Hit / Figure 8 Recording.
Live sets by Lauren Cauley, Matt Evans, David Leon, and Erika Dohi bring select tracks to life, with a pre-show immersive sound experience by multimedia artist Phong Tran.
Myth of Tomorrow is a sonic meditation on catastrophe, resilience, and rebirth, produced by Grammy-winning composer and producer William Brittelle and with development and creative support from Metropolis Ensemble and Andrew Cyr.
Concert Highlights
Featured Performers
On the Program
Izanagi no Mikoto
Ame Onna
Transplante (feat. Carol Féliz)
Aratani
Saturn Square Venus (feat. Lauren Cauley)
Myth of Tomorrow
About Shinboku
Partnering with Forgotten Futures’ trove of 20th Century electronic and electro-acoustic instruments, Erika Dohi* frames her series, Shinboku, as process: experimentation, instruction-scores, and iterative making as the performance itself.
Erika Dohi's 2025-6 Rivington artist-in-residence series explores the power of slowness in a culture of acceleration. Selected artists work with Forgotten Futures’ rare electronic and electro-acoustic instruments as process-driven tools—where experimentation, instruction-scores, and iterative making become the performance.
*2025-6 Metropolis Artist-in-Residence at Rivington
“Shinboku” is presented by Metropolis Ensemble in collaboration with Erika Dohi and Forgotten Futures, with special thanks to Candice Madey, and Marinaro.
Instrument Spotlight: the Fairlight CMI
Shinboku’s opener features the Fairlight CMI, a pioneering digital sampling workstation from the early ’80s. Its character—grainy, expressive, and unmistakably alive—informs Erika’s Myth of Tomorrow and will be heard throughout the evening. The Fairlight CMI hails from the same family of instruments that helped define the sound of early studio-crafted pop and film music.