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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Born in Tokyo in 1959, composer and arranger. Masahiro was a member of Pappa Tarahumara from 1987 to 2000. He has been pursuing the ideal of music as a performing art that transcends the boundaries of theater and dance. Since leaving Papa Tarahumara, he has created many music concrete works using an 8-channel multi-speaker system, questioning the meaning of listening itself, and stepping out to the boundary between music and non-music. (A “well room” for listening alone). At the same time, he also composes instrumental music through play accompaniment for NHK- FMs audio drama FM Theater, and other programs. As an arranger, he also participates in the music of the guitar duo GONTITI.

Photo credit: Issei Suda