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  • Introduction and motivation
  • Research question
  • Research process and methodology
  • Current state of knowledge
  • The food
  • The music
  • Mediating elements
  • Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Appendix 1. The recipes
  • Appendix 2. The scores
  • Appendix 3. Feedback forms
  • Eduardo Gaspar Polo Baader
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• abstract
  During the past decade, there has been a surge in the literature about crossmodal correspondences, consistent associations our minds establish between stimuli that are perceived through different senses. Correspondences between sound/music and flavour/taste have received particular scholarly attention, which has lead to a variety of practical applications in the form of food and music pairings, mostly examples of so-called ‘sonic seasoning’, a way to use sound to enhance or modify the tasting experience. This thesis aims to explore the pairing of food and music from an artistic perspective. Its goal is to find tools that would allow to present both music and food as components of coherent live performances in which neither of them is a mere ‘seasoning’ to the other. Through the description and exploration of different ‘mediating elements’ between them (such as crossmodal correspondences, but also structure, ritual, narrative, and others), a wide range of possibilities is presented to whoever wants to match food and music in a truly synergistic manner. Readers interested in multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, or transdisciplinary artistic practices of any kind might find the outcomes of this research useful for their own work.
• Eduardo Gaspar Polo Baader - A Garden of Sounds and Flavours: Establishing a synergistic relationship between music and food in live performance settings - 2024
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