Tasteful music: An exploratory analysis of gastrosonics using the SoundSphere ecology

Felipe  Reinoso Carvalho; Damian Keller

doi:10.5216/mh.v25.80249

Authors

Felipe Reinoso Carvalho Universidade de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colômbia f.reinosoc@uniandes.edu.co https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9969-9338
Damian Keller Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brasil. dkeller@ccrma.stanford.edu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0866-3066

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v25.80249

Keywords:

gastrosonics, ubiquitous music, multisensoriality, domestic ubimus, music and gastronomy

Abstract

Gastrosonics explores how our experiences with taste and smell modulate our creative activities and how musical phenomena impact the gastronomic milieu. This is an emergent artistic research field within the framework of ubiquitous music. Gastrosonic practices furnish opportunities to expand the support for musical creativity through gastronomic resources. We discuss musicological, creative and human-food interaction strategies toward an enhanced interdisciplinary dialogue. We also introduce a rationale of sonic seasoning as scientific support for gastrosonic practice. We further report a gastrosonics study involving 12 participants doing asynchronous musical activities in domestic settings. The activities involved sound mixing using the SoundSphere ecology while drinking coffee, water, and orange, lemon and apple juice. The taste dimensions and the choices of sonic samples were well aligned, except for the case of the orange juice. We finish by discussing the limitations related to existing support infrastructure and the requisites and potentialities within the context of ubimus research.

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Author Biographies

Felipe Reinoso Carvalho, Universidade de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colômbia f.reinosoc@uniandes.edu.co

Felipe Reinoso-Carvalho, PhD, is an associate professor at the School of Administration at the Universidad de los Andes. His research focuses mainly on sound branding, as well as in the design of multisensory experiences. Since 2023, he has served as director of the faculty's marketing dept. He is currently also a visiting professor and researcher at the IAE Angers (France). In addition to his academic work, Felipe frequently collaborates with artists, as well as with the public and private sectors through consultancies. This is because his academic work is a reference in Latin America and the world. His investigations have been highlighted on more than one occasion by renowned international media, such as The Guardian, Washington Post, BBC Focus and Vice.

Damian Keller, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brasil. dkeller@ccrma.stanford.edu

Damián Keller is an associate professor at the Federal University of Acre, Brazil. A CNPq level 2 researcher, he coordinates the Amazon Centre for Music Research (NAP) since 2003. His work focuses on cognitive-ecological creative practices and on ubiquitous music, comprising more than 150 scientific publications, 20 editorial projects and multiple artistic projects sponsored by agencies from Brazil and the United States. He is a member and co-founder of the Ubiquitous Music Group.