Taste in Music
At Terrace tonight, I was listening to the band with (sadly just) a friend, and the thought occurred to me that a lot of the same adjectives used to describe food can also describe music. A song can be sweet, or smooth, or rich, or any number of other things used for food.
So here's a brief exercise: grab a song, album, or the works of an entire artist. Listen to it very carefully, and decide what food that song is. For example, the group that came to play tonight was roast potatoes, with broiled pork chops, and some kind of a tangy lemon sauce, at least for me.
There are at least a couple ways of approaching this. You could look at it from a purely structural perspective. Someone else described the same music as a cheeseburger-a solid meat percussion line, with sharp cheddar cheesy vocals. For me, there's more of a gestalt, emotional response that gets taken into account. The music evokes, for me, the same kinds of feelings as broiled meat, but with a note of tangy dissonance.
For extra credit, decide what drink or cocktail the music is. Like whiskey and seltzer (same band).
So here's a brief exercise: grab a song, album, or the works of an entire artist. Listen to it very carefully, and decide what food that song is. For example, the group that came to play tonight was roast potatoes, with broiled pork chops, and some kind of a tangy lemon sauce, at least for me.
There are at least a couple ways of approaching this. You could look at it from a purely structural perspective. Someone else described the same music as a cheeseburger-a solid meat percussion line, with sharp cheddar cheesy vocals. For me, there's more of a gestalt, emotional response that gets taken into account. The music evokes, for me, the same kinds of feelings as broiled meat, but with a note of tangy dissonance.
For extra credit, decide what drink or cocktail the music is. Like whiskey and seltzer (same band).