While I am in wild camping trip, cooking is one of the most excited part for the day. It is not just because I can have another chance to challenge my fire making skills, nor I would have a warm meal soon (although those time I usually starving), it is because the sound of cooking are so satisfying. The ‘bark’ sound of the firewoods, the bowling water bubbling sound, and the pan frying hissing echo in the night of the forest.
Then I started to think how about I can make everyday cooking as a sound performance. Cooking sounds are the sonic experience that everyone has, but when cooking, how many of them would really listen to it in this visucentric society. I am planning to use contact mic to record chopping sounds and hydrophone on the sink to record washing sound. The piece is gonna half hour-ish, which depends what meal I am going to cook. After Salomé lecture in week 22, about sonic knowledge, I started to think the sound of food making can shows the cooking quality. Hence, I am calling the piece: sonic recipe.