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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Elaine Mitchener is a vocalist, movement artist and composer working between contemporary/experimental new music, free improvisation, visual art, text, and dance. Her regular collaborators include: experimental musicians such as Moor Mother, Loré Lixenberg, Pat Thomas, Jason Yarde, Neil Charles, and David Toop; composers George E Lewis, Jennifer Walshe, and Tansy Davies; ensembles Apartment House, London Sinfonietta, Ensemble MAM, Beam Splitter, Ensemble Klang, and Klangforum Wien; dance company Van Huynh Company; and visual artists Sonia Boyce, Christian Marclay and The Otolith Group. Recent acclaimed performance pieces include The Then + The Now = Now Time, Sweet Tooth, and On Being Human As Praxis. While developing her own projects, Elaine continues to work as a collaborative and interpretive singer.