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A work in progress and basked of ideas for the flow and menu of Smoke & Vapour http://fo.am/smoke_vapour

Blackboard - Smoke & Vapour planning

Aperitif: Effervescent and crispy

Drink

  • Sparkling non-alcoholic drinks: eg. Sparkling Jasmine Tea or Chose (fresh grapefruit juice and tonic water with smoked ice cubes)
  • Sparkling lightly alcoholic drinks: eg. lightly fermented infusions, sparkling sake

Food

  • Smoked potato skins
  • Smoked pistacho bread with carrot with carrot reduction
  • Charred peppers in granular dust (smoked dukkah & popping sugar)
  • Smoked quail eggs in shell
  • (Smoked tempura muscles)

Sounds (pre-recorded, served on the same trays as the food)

  • sound of the food
    • bubbling
    • evaporating
    • crunching
    • cracking
    • …SW soundscape for FOUR channels (four speakers & four players)

Place: entrance, in front of the green glass

Posture: standing, walking

Actions: Hand washing and drying on low tables (kneeling), sipping a drink, tasting bite-sized amuses, mingling

Props needed:

  • water infused with herbs/oils (thyme, rosemary, bitter mandarin), a few bowls, long cloth and table for hand washing & drying.
  • coat hanger
  • 4 trays with food, drinks and speakers

Isolation Ward: synaesthetic and meditative

Drink

  • cedar incense smoke, incense lit before people arrive
  • woody essential oil (rosemary, cedar) infused in hot salty water, evaporated over a hot stone (drinking through nose & skin)
  • vapour distilled herb water (sage and mint with a few drops of lemon and basil seeds), served before the food in a pipet

Food

  • a cold steamed seaweed/samphire starter
  • a warm smoked muscle consommé

Sounds (sounds of the water on the rocks, generative granular synthesis, from speakers under or next to chairs, perhaps small, barely audible, invisible live interventions)

  • sounds from the source (resembling):
    • forest
    • coast
    • sea

Place: under the high roof, in front of the metal panel

Posture: sitting on a chair, alone

Actions: Slowing down, listening, tasting, breathing

Props needed:

  • 12 chairs
  • 4 small speakers from the trays (left on the floor)
  • 2 large cobblestones
  • 12 small warm round stones
  • 2 flasks with hot salty infusions
  • 12 pipets
  • 12 containers (or a skewers?) for cold starter
  • 12 earthen bowls for soup
  • hand sanitiser for after the starter (just a few drops)?

Tavern: dynamic and absorbing

Drink

  • 1 beetroot cocktail (with the garden)
  • 1 glass of red wine (with the mushrooms)
  • water (still/sparkling)

Food (we need to make something the serving and eating of this quite light/etherial, even though ingredients might be stodgy)

  • upon arrival smoked tea sorbet
  • steam: a garden in the middle: steamed root vegetables layered with gravel and soil in the middle of each table, on plates a small decoration of thinly sliced steamed beetroot, carrot and celery
  • steam & smoke: Steamed cheese dumplings with smoked tomato jam and smoked sour cream/butter
  • smoke: cedar smoked wild mushroom and seitan parcels (for 2 people), smoked potatoes, arriving under 3 glass jars filled with smoke, 12 plates with tea-steamed spinach 'tower' and a think green line/brush stroke of garden cress & goat cheese sauce

Sounds (pre-recorded and abstracted, from speakers under or next to individual chairs, perhaps small, barely audible, invisible live interventions)

  • sounds of transformation
    • smoking
    • steaming
    • cooking/frying
  • live improvisation (Stevie)

Place: under low roof, 'screening room

Posture: sitting on chairs in groups of 4 people

Actions: Sharing, listening, tasting, gesturing

Props needed:

  • 12 chairs
  • 3 islands of 2 tree & leaf tables (6 tables in total)
  • 4 surround sound speakers & cabling
  • containers (spoons) for sorbet
  • 3 glass vases, 3 small shovels and 12 small white plates for the garden
  • 12 Topoware plates, cutlery for the mushroom dish, 3 wooden breadboards and 3 smoking bells for potatoes and mushroom parcels
  • 2 sets of 12 wine glasses
  • 12 serviettes
  • 12 water glasses

Kitchen table: light, social, colourful

Drink (all depending on the food served)

  • japanese green tea (as .jp green teas are first steamed before being rolled, making them more green) - matcha, sencha or sencha with yuzu
  • steamed coffee (from mokka coffee cookers or find steamed coffee beans
  • Whiskey and cigars cocktail, or smoky Manhattan (a few smoked drinks recipes)

Food

  • Smoked cheese platter (mozarella, feta, ash goat cheese, 2 smoked cow cheeses from Cremerie de Linkebeek)
  • Steamed chestnut puree with Laphroaig
  • Smoked garlic and Lagavullin tiramisu
  • Pears steamed in a sweet red wine reduction and orange peel

Petit fours

  • Smoked chocolates
  • Caramels with smoked salt

Sound (pre-recorded, played and spoken live)

  • sound of the kitchen
    • pots & pans
    • mechanical noises (cutting, slicing, shredding…)
    • cook's stories (smoking, steaming, ingredients)
    • describing the sounds of steaming & smoking
    • at the end, from 'formal stories' become chatter with participants

Place: kitchen table, on our prep and plating table, that is covered with notes, instructions, drawings and stains

Posture: standing around the table

Actions: Observing, reading, tasting, listening (to the inner and outer environment), at the end beginning to chat

Props needed:

  • big prep table covered in a writing material (paper of some kind), posca markers
  • several small speakers on the prep table (balls from trays), perhaps a few speakers around the room (disembodied sounds)
  • desserts in spoons and small containers
  • 12 cups for tea/coffee
  • 12 glasses for water
  • 12 cocktail glasses

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