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Post Subject: More about audio and cookingPosted by Romy the Cat on: 8/18/2011
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Due to some non-audio events in my life I do a lot of cooking nowadays. What I find lately is that cooking is in way very similar to designing playback system. I did say it before it before but nowadays it hit me with new level of truthfulness.
You see, in audio very few people design playback. I do not mean the engineering aspects of design, there are many people who operate formals and rules and fancy themselves that they design Sound. The majority of folks learn a few tricks in schools or on-line, pile up audio components and get audio operational. However from just functional audio to Sound that has worth there is LOT of room. The real sound starts when a playback has no obvious audio problem and the playback owner begin to navigate the “as is” sounds that he got from stupid audio machinery to the expressive sound of his intentions. There are very very few people in audio that does it and most of audio people would not even understand what it it would mean.
So, back the cooking. The cooking in the way is very similar. We have taste of ingredients and their compilations. Then he have objectives and understanding what taste we are willing to accomplish and what kind impact we would like to inflict to the eater. Then we begin to use the different produce and different cooking methods to accomplish what we would like to accomplish, very similar to what we do in audio.
I find it is very useful to run test cooking. I might go to some kind of upscale restaurant and try some kind of meal that I like. Then I try to recreate the same taste in my own kitchen. There is a key in this ceremony: It is not about looking and testing the food in the restaurant and to dissect the meal, trying to get the ingredients. In fact I less care about the meal’s content but rather to get the whole taste of the meal and to re-recreate it with your own ingredients, not the same meal but the same taste. If you thinfully read what I said then you will understand how in my mind cooking and audio making have the same underlining mechanism.
BTW, it might be interesting to cook a dish and get a particular taste specifically for a given piece of music….
Rgs,
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