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Flux Gourmet - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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Flux Gourmet - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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01/26/2024 600197019719 

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In Peter Strickland’s Flux Gourmet, a dysfunctional group of performance artists undertake a month-long residency at an institute devoted to culinary disciplines. Food is interrogated for its sonic potential as the group mic-up, amplify, distort and transform what they cook in front of an audience. The noise that the characters in the film itself make is driven by food blenders, overflowing cauldrons of gurgling soup and sizzling frying pans (courtesy of The Sonic Catering Band), yet the music that soundtracks the culinary capers is engorged with aching melodies and wordless, airy vocals. Contributors include Cavern Of Anti-Matter, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost of A Hawk And A Hacksaw and Trost’s band, Roj (formerly of Broadcast), and Nurse With Wound. Flux Gourmet is presented in a lush 2xLP package with an ornate, colorful design and Strickland’s detailed liner notes.

Image, color, light and sound are integrated and heightened to delirious levels of hyperreality, much like Strickland’s past works, Berberian Sound Studio and In Fabric. Flux Gourmet very much alludes to his past as a member of The Sonic Catering Band, which he founded back in 1996. The band split on several occasions and got back together to create new pieces for the soundtrack, concocting strange sonic morsels and treating recipes as if they were scores. The lines between what is on the screen and what is on the soundtrack are blurred, with the band (mostly) using the exact same equipment (which they loaned to the production) and recipes as in the film. However, for all the conceptual rigour on display, the music on the Flux Gourmet is ultimately in pursuit of catharsis, as one character concedes. The power of music and / or noise to purge and cleanse its makers (and hopefully, listeners) of their ills and woes.

Tracklist

  1. #1 Early Gardens By Heather Trost

  3. #2 Trip to the Shops By Roj

  5. #3 Death Borscht By The Sonic Catering Band

  7. #4 The Third Gastric Surge of the Night By The Sonic Catering Band

  9. #5 The Funeral Table By Jeremy Barnes

  11. #6 Greed By The Sonic Catering Band

  13. #7 HLA-DQ8 By The Sonic Catering Band

  15. #8 Early Gardens (earlier) By Heather Trost

  17. #9 Trip to the Shops (footfall) By Roj

  19. #10 Hindu Monastery Breakfast By Nurse with Wound

  21. #11 Ohmlette’s Law By Tim Harrison

  23. #12 Vegetable Trash By The Sonic Catering Band

  25. #13 A Sedimental Journey By The Sonic Catering Band

  27. #14 Baron von Omelette By The Sonic Catering Band

  29. #15 Dossier de Canteen By The Sonic Catering Band

  31. #16 Insufflation Tube By Cavern of Anti-Matter

  33. #17 The Funeral Table (gluten-free) By Jeremy Barnes

  35. #18 A Pain I Can't Hold In By The Sonic Catering Band

  37. #19 Early Gardens (earliest) By Heather Trost

  39. #20 Monday Service By Dan Hayhurst

  41. #21 Dietary Crash By The Sonic Catering Band

  43. #22 Cross-Contamination By Marta Salogni

  45. #23 Trip to the Shops (closing down) By Roj

  47. #24 The Funeral Table (demonstration) By Jeremy Barnes

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