Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host christeeeene’s experimental artistic practice so far. Not only those that use mixes within their visual practice, but those who use words to inform their mixing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all cherries.

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Located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland and active since 2018, La Becque | Artist Residency hosts and fosters the creativity of artists of all backgrounds and disciplines.

Recorded by Aurélien Haslebacher and Luc Meier, two members of the residency team, this dublab mix is mostly composed of music made by artists affiliated with La Becque. It attempts to reflect the spirit and themes addressed by the residency, namely the ever more intertwined notions of nature, the environment, and technology.

The selection also includes several tracks from the La Becque Editions series of recordings, a documentation and dissemination project featuring recordings made in or around the residency. The series comprises several LPs co-published with imprints such as Shelter Press and Blank Forms and will keep growing in the coming years.

Photo credit: Teju Cole: Fernweh (MACK, 2020). Courtesy of the artist and MACK