Winter Creative Hibernation at La Briche

For Makers of Things That Don't Fit Categories

Whether you're sculpting audio waveforms for algorithms designed to enslave you, crafting artisanal pixels for ungrateful clients, or arranging words for people who don't read- we can guarantee that La Briche will scramble your creative DNA in ways that might actually matter.

Our winter sanctuary offers the perfect conditions for deep creative work: wood-burning stoves to keep your fingers functional, stone walls thick enough to muffle existential screams, and enough isolation to ignore the outside world's demands for "content." The seasonal depression that comes free with our grey Loire Valley skies has been known to produce surprisingly honest artistic output.

We maintain an extensive collection of tools for making pleasing sensory experiences: electronic wave generators, harmonic string vibration devices, light-capturing glass, word-arranging implements, and all manner of odd contraptions for manipulating matter into meaningful forms - most of which are in some kind of working order and all of which have absorbed enough creative energy to be mildly haunted. Our machine friends speak multiple digital languages from ancient to bleeding-edge, ensuring your creative tools can communicate with ours in whatever dialect they prefer. 

Cross-Disciplinary Chaos in Controlled Conditions

What happens when you lock painters, musicians, writers, and other creative misfits together for 7 days? Beautiful accidents, creative contagion, and the kind of artistic cross-pollination that only occurs when disciplines collide in close quarters. Previous residents have reported strange phenomena: filmmakers discovering rhythm, sculptors hearing color, writers learning to see sound.

Our heated workspaces accommodate various forms of creative expression while our communal areas ensure maximum opportunity for productive creative friction. Warning: prolonged exposure to other art forms may cause permanent expansion of your creative vocabulary.

PRACTICAL DATA

We'll keep your belly full with actual food made from ingredients that still remember being alive, ensuring maximum creative focus and minimum existential dread. Comfortable places to sleep, work, and contemplate the absurdity of trying to make meaningful art in late-stage capitalism.

Our lack of neighbors who complain about noise, mess, or unconventional working hours means you can set your own creative tempo. Work at 3am and have breakfast at sunset, or maintain whatever bizarre schedule your art demands - anything is possible in our certified creative chaos sanctuary.

Investment: €455-1050 (all the usual survival requirements included)

Application Process for Brave Souls

Send examples of whatever you make (we've seen worse), explain why this particular form of winter madness appeals to you, and confess what you hope might emerge from the creative chaos.

Don't bother applying if you need constant validation, clear learning objectives, or protection from having your artistic assumptions challenged by people who make completely different kinds of things.

Email: labricheaudio@gmail.com
Subject: "Ready for winter weirdness"

February 15-22, 2025

Note: Ghosts, cats, and various farm creatures are permanent residents and do not take creative criticism well. Respectful coexistence is mandatory.