Beige is the true color of melancholy is a multi-channel installation presented on Re.Sound a two day event in Huddersfield, UK on May 2018. The piece points out to the importance of the culinary culture in the establishment of immigrant cultures in Northern England over the past two centuries. The piece was produced with sounds recorded in the kitchen of Thai traditional cook Lag in Huddersfield, interviews made to second generation immigrants, and archive material that presents the role of cooking in the discrimination suffered by some immigrants that moved to West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester in the 1950s and 60s.

Special thanks to:
Kalim Siddiqui, Nat, Lang,
Ching-Fang Wu and Monty Adkins.

Beige is the true color of melancholy (fragment in stereo)

The cultural, social, economical and environmental context in which I work is not only a big influence, but it is the main raw supply for my acoustic pieces and the main source of the questions that emerge on my research. Coming from a field recordings background I am very interested in the aesthetic action of listening to everyday sounds and even more when there is not mediation or decontextualisation.

Beige is the true color of melancholy (fragment in stereo)

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