Measure Pour & Mixtape / Various

If you made music the way you cook, what would it sound like? For this tape compilation, we invited artists to consider the connection between food and sound, music and cooking. We envisioned an assorted mixtape-an auditory cookbook, of sorts-of songs, poems, field recordings, and aural experiments, inspired by recipes, food preparation processes, dishes, and the experience of eating. We asked: How does attention to sound-the sputtering of the oil, the popping of the kernels, the hum of a rolling boil, the repetitive thump of a mixer-help you to be a better cook? Consider how these rhythmic, arhythmic, polyrhythmic, and droning sounds might inspire your recording. What would an audio recipe sound like? Can you set a rhyming recipe to music? How is a recipe like a musical score? Where do you find space for improvisation between the notes and instructions? What is "jazz baking"? Could the multivocality of a community cookbook be translated by a choir? What food or dish or process is deserving of an ode? What do you like to listen to when you're in the kitchen? Write a benediction song that can be sung by a group before a meal. After over a year in which dining together en masse was not possible, what is it about the experience of collective eating that you want to express gratitude for? What is your food hymn?Together the compiled tracks-or ingredients, if you will-deepened and expanded our original vision, mixing, cooking, and baking together in a hearty, warm, and inventive aural menu for the most nourishing of communal meals.1. Andy McLeod & Sarah Bachman - Whistlin' Down the Rows2. Sutari - Kuchenny (Kitchen Song)3. Avey Tare - Tabbouleh 4. Bells - Union5. Big Trash - The Apples, The Tree6. Sally Anne Morgan - Grain Song7. Magic Tuber Stringband - Bill Hensley's Hoppin' John8. Lavender Blue - Chocolate Beet Cake (For Someone You Love)9. Michael Hurley - Cook Fish, Bake Pie10. Lou Turner - Ride the Melting11. Jess Tsang - Follow the Steps12. PIQSIQ - Akuglugu: Then You Stir13. Makka West feat. Michelle Dove - Earth Array14. Little Mazarn - Thanksgiving15. Crystal Good - Food Poem16. Ziona Riley - Folly of Tomato