Measure, Pour & Mixtape

If you made music the way you cook, what would it sound like? For this tape compilation, we invited artists to consider the connection between food and sound, music and cooking. We envisioned an assorted mixtapean auditory cookbook, of sortsof songs, poems, field recordings, and aural experiments, inspired by recipes, food preparation processes, dishes, and the experience of eating.We asked: How does attention to soundthe sputtering of the oil, the popping of the kernels, the hum of a rolling boil, the repetitive thump of a mixerhelp you to be a better cook? Consider how these rhythmic, arhythmic, polyrhythmic, and droning sounds might inspire your recording.What would an audio recipe sound like? Can you set a rhyming recipe to music? How is a recipe like a musical score? Where do you find space for improvisation between the notes and instructions? What is jazz baking? Could the multivocality of a community cookbook be translated by a choir?What food or dish or process is deserving of an ode? What do you like to listen to when youre in the kitchen?Write a benediction song that can be sung by a group before a meal. After over a year in which dining together en masse was not possible, what is it about the experience of collective eating that you want to express gratitude for? What is your food hymn?Together the compiled tracksor ingredients, if you willdeepened and expanded our original vision, mixing, cooking, and baking together in a hearty, warm, and inventive aural menu for

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Format: Cassette
Artist: Various Artists
Release Date: 08 December 2023
Genre: Rock
Label: SPINSTER
Distributor: MGM Music