Taste the Music: Spring 2023

Listen to the food, eat the music, and feel the vibrations of nature!

TASTE THE MUSIC: SPRING 2023
A cross-sensory dinner suite in 4 courses.

Flavor is a multi-sensory construct that also includes hearing and touch: consider crunch, fizz, and “mouthfeel.”

A growing body of research shows how different music pairings with food and drink can affect flavor in interesting ways. Pairings can enhance or temper different tastes (like acidity or umami) and aromas (like fruity or floral notes). These effects can be quite profound and can happen in real-time, mid-bite, in response to changes within the same work of music. In this way, big musical changes can bring out very different characters within the same, complex dish or a glass of wine. These effects also seem to happen in response to changes in felt, vibrational sound when seated on a resonating surface.

Given these extraordinary cross-sensory effects, imagine a meal and a musical work composed together to create an entirely new kind of immersive artistic experience: a musical gastronomy.

TASTE THE MUSIC: SPRING 2023 is an original collaboration among Barbareño (with Chef Preston Knox), composer-researchers Dr. Alexis Story Crawshaw and Professor Samuel Shalhoub, and the Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science and Technology (with Alan Macy).

This musical experience unites the senses: blending taste and smell through cooking, heard sound through instruments and electronics, and felt sound through haptic seating technology.

This collaboration advances the future of gastronomy and the future of music, presenting a novel time-based expression that weaves across the senses, combining them into a holistic or “holo-sensory” new form.

Come experience a full, nuanced exploration of flavor, our senses, and music beyond hearing!

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Date and Time for this Past Event

• Sunday, Apr 16, 2023  5pm - 7pm