SENSORY NEWS REPORT

“Music menus: Restaurants that are putting more emphasis on their soundtracks—aiming to create the right mood rather than just muffling the conversations of diners and other background noise—include renowned Los Angeles restaurant Vespertine, where a series of seven tracks is heard before, during and after the multicourse meal.

“Music, for sure, is arguably the most important part of my creative process,” says chef Jordan Kahn.

Music is hard to miss at Vespertine, where the $250 tasting menu is currently 19 courses. Kahn says he aims “to use sound to enhance and augment the dining experience, not to distract the guest.””

— Wohl, J. (2018) Music to your taste buds

McCracken, M. (c2017) The Colour in Anything [painting]. Retrieved from Blue Gallery KC, https://shop.bluegalleryonline.com/products/copy-of-the-colour-in-anything.

Selected Reads

Halcyon Entrancement

From the Maker:

“What would happen if some of your senses overlapped? What would that experience feel like? In this special 360° episode, we show you what it’s like to have synesthesia.”

Seeker (2015) What’s It Like To Hear Colors? – A VR 360° Synesthesia Experience. Retrieved from Youtube, https://youtu.be/obrBAysVef0.

Chuckles

If a band plays music in a thunderstorm, who will get hit by lightning?

The conductor.

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