Son et Culinaire is an interactive audio-visual performance, merging sound, dance and culinary processes. The project brings to life the performative & ritual aspects of a meal’s production in a performance environment, breathing new life into everyday actions and behaviours.

The sound of cooking is usually ignored and disregarded as a ‘by-product’ of a domestic ritual, but when isolated and ‘framed’ it can be termed as an emergent soundscape, with its own tonal complexities and rhythms. Son et Culinaire creates a novel audiovisual space for such unheard and un-noticed sonic particularities of differing cooking methods. The project brings to life the techniques and sounds of a meal’s production in a specific environment and translates it into a sonic-driven performance. The process focuses on capturing the sonic output of a cooks actions, translating it into a base for a live audio visual dance performance. The performance creates a visual space of the cooks motions in real-time, resulting in a performative feedback loop for an audiovisual improvisation. Two performers participate in this interactive system, controlling and influencing each other, generating a novel dance performance with a unique aesthetic. Different performers and different dishes will go on to generate new creative outputs.

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Participatory architecture & urban interaction

Community or communities involved : Project developed in interactive architecture lab University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture Director: Sijia Chen (University College London) Graphic designer: Jiaona Hu （University of the Arts Berlin） Dancer: Tingnin Wen (Trinity Leban) Chef: Fei Han (UCL Bartlett) Sound Engineer: Ziheng Qian (University Art London)

Tools used : Touchdesigner Genkiinstrument Contact microphone Ableton Live Projection Mapping

Mediacredits

SijiaChen& Tingnin Wen& Fei Han

Sijia Chen& Fei han

Sijia Chen& Fei han

Sijia Chen& Tingnin Wen& Fei Han& Jiaona Hu& Ziheng Qian

Sijia Chen& Fei han

Sijia Chen& Jiaona Hu

Sijia Chen

Sijia Chen