Food Sessions
Summer Streets Festival, New York, US
Eating Voices
Le Central, Montréal, CA
Eating Voices is a series of interactive sound experiences that open up a new sensory dimension to your plate. Ready to come to a café, restaurant or hotel near you, bring your headphones and your appetite.
An augmented eating experience
Eating is a sensory journey in itself and a social driver since always. However, the pace of urban life too often takes us away from this opportunity to connect. Eating becomes an innocuous/ trivial moment. Eating Voices is an opportunity to deepen our relationship with our food and the people around us.
The project is a collaboration with Nicolas Fonseca, with whom we developed the Food Sessions sensory banquets, which inspired this self-service version, ready to enliven any culinary destination.
Headphones + Appetites
The experience lasts about 15 minutes and is conducted from a telephone. Self-service listening stations are available in the food court allowing everyone to participate without using their own phone or headset.
A series of episodes were created with a multidisciplinary team including performers, composers, comedians, hypnotherapists, bringing different sensitivities and assets to experience a meal differently.
Episode 1: You are not alone
Your phone is talking to you, questioning your comfort level when eating alone in public. Don’t worry, no one is really looking at you right now.
— Voice by stand-up comedian and actor Martin Perizzolo.
Episode 2: Earthly Pornography
Mother Nature talks about reproduction and diversity to keep life going, revealing the sexual life hidden on your plate.
— Voice by transgender comedian and artist Tranna Wintour.
— Also available in French with the voice of actress and director Anne-Marie Cadieux.
* For an adult audience
Episode 3: Transcendental Mastication
A food medium guides you through your plate’s fifth dimension. Chew, taste, swallow. It sounds so mundane, but it actually is a direct portal to the transcendental essence of all existence.
— Voice by contemporary live artist Dana Michel.
Credits
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- This project is part of the “I love to work downtown” initiative, propelled by the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal with support from the Gouvernement du Québec
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- A Project by Daily tous les jours x Nicolas Fonseca
- Creative Direction
- Nicolas Fonseca
- Mouna Andraos
- Melissa Mongiat
- Storytelling and writing, episode 1
- Martin Perizzolo
- Editorial Team
- Émilie Baltz
- François Blouin
- David Drury
- Gabriel Lucciani
- Anne Ouellette
- Project Manager
- Aurélien Cruse
- Technological Direction
- Pierre Thirion
- Programming
- Samuel Cousin
- Industrial Design
- SSSVLL
- Juliette Mondoux
- Illustration
- Martine Dupuis
- Anne Ouellette
- Graphic Design
- Sarah Gobeil
- Anne Ouellette
- Sound Direction
- David Drury
- Recording
- Maxime Veilleux
- Communications and multimedia
- Mehdi Kerrit
- Yankat (video)
- Ville de pluie (photo)
- Technical Support
- Manuel Acevedo Civantos
- Flo Peters
- Alizée Millot
- Equipment
- XYZ Technologies
- Thank you
- To the Central team.
- To the Daily team, who tested, listened, ate and commented the Bites behind the scenes: Christophe Billebaud, Cécile Chandran, Magalie Rouleau, Leyla Nahas, Noémie Rivière, Eva Schindling, Armen Tamzarian and Rafine You.
