Relive the Aveycke Press residency, a label for non‑musicians imagined by Raphaël Massart, hosted at Aperto
The label — or record company — is a structure capable of giving sound its musical dimension, in the self‑referential sense of the term. Aveycke Press aims to open a door within this landscape to people whose practices are not typically identified as musical. Poets, listeners, collage‑makers, and archivists mingle here to share what we may then call their music.
Between September and December 2025, Aveycke Press settled into Aperto — the Fondation Pernod Ricard’s project space — for a residency. As the launchpad for this new project, the residency offered the founding artists an opportunity to shape its first contours and to experiment, through making and sharing, with the ideas that Aveycke carries in germinal form. How can we make and distribute music today? Confronted with the musical, administrative, and visual standards that shape any sound production, what do we keep? What do we let go of?
During this research‑creation residency, the label team and invited artists benefited from the production and distribution resources available at Aperto, which consequently became a recording studio, an editing space, and a meeting point to collaborate and support one another in the creation of a compilation. At the end of the year, the label released this first compilation, bringing together around a dozen artists.
Find an interview with Raphaël Massart on the origins and inspirations behind the label here!
