Cashmere Residency – Cecilie Penney

Dutch artist and composer Cecilie Penney was in residency in our Berlin studio back in October 2025, as part of the artistic residency developed in collaboration with Art Music Denmark.

“In recent years, I’ve been focused on the Scandinavian healthcare system — on what it feels like to be a patient in a system that can be difficult to navigate. I’m particularly interested in the points where the system collides with the human — where bureaucracy overshadows presence, time, and care.

At Cashmere Radio, I will work on a sound piece unfolding as an electronic duet between a sanatorium from the early 1900s and a modern super-hospital. I plan to collect field recordings from hospitals — sounds of machines, footsteps and muffled conversations — and weave them together with vocal recordings. With this, I hope to explore how our ideas of illness and healing have shifted over time, and what it might mean to imagine a more sensuous healthcare system in the future.

Throughout the residency, I’ll explore the potential of radio as a space for closeness — a place where voices and stories can reveal small, intimate layers of experience. I’m looking forward to developing the work at Cashmere Radio and to engaging with dramaturgy, structure and rhythm within an inspiring community I can both learn from and contribute to.”

Picture: Mia Rewitz

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