The ideal way to listen the piece is listen the whole record because the change of the rice cooker magnetic field differ in different stage of cooking, and also the hissing of the frying sounds change gradually. Cooking is performative, where we usually focus on the out come, the food. The sound of cooking is underrated and people are being draw into other sense, smell and visual. This piece is try to draw listener awareness of the daily sounds, along with the inaudible frequece that daily appliances makes. To connect to the essay, the contemporary urban lifestyle often dissociate us to the primal things of living, due to the convenience of technology and society. As a result, it weaken our awareness of the surrounding and separate human to nature.
