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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Lovely Music began as part of Mimi Johnson’s work with Performing Artservices, where she managed artists and organized tours and performances for artists, including Philip Glass, John Cage, the Sonic Arts Union, and Richard Foreman. Though the record label wasn’t initially the primary focus of her efforts, the timing was right for it to take off. Thanks to Lovely Music, the world found out about some of the 20th century’s greatest composers, such as Éliane Radigue, Robert Ashley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Alvin Lucier.

Photographer unknown, circa 2010. Courtesy Mimi Johnson