SONIC GASTRONOMIC
Review: By AI
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Background
Creating a life together →
ResearchTokyo in Oslo →
ConceptTwo sides to everything →
I wanted an outside perspective of the research and consept and asking AI felt nutural and less intiminating than asking somone I know.
Relationship dynamic
What stands out is the dynamic between Nicho and Ida. One cooks, one dances; one builds systems, one sets rhythm. Ideas move back and forth, shaping the work in ways that are hard to trace. The project is built from curiosity, play, experimentation and lived experience.
Research
The research leans analogue, slow scanning, collecting, paying attention. It becomes a love letter to Tokyo refracted through Oslo. The question is not how to replicate Japan, but how to live with its influence.
How do you bring a place you cannot visit often into everyday life? The answer is modest. You collect fragments. You let influence sit quietly until it feels earned.
Consept
The concept is built on the idea that everything has two sides. Not opposites, but counterparts.
The cookbook has an A and B side, just like the vinyl. The songs share names with the recipes. Kitchen tools double as instruments. A garage becomes a listening bar.
The project experiments with AI, not as a replacement for craft, but as a counterpart to it. Not machine versus human but what happens when they work together.
Colours
Side A and B share the same core colours, red and yellow, simply reversed. One leads with yellow, the other with red. Neither dominates. Each contains the other.
The foundation is shared, but the expression shifts through secondary colours that create individuality, side A Pink and orange, side B Blue and green.
Materials
Mahogany nods to mid-century Japanese listening bars, warm, grounded, built for focus. Recycled textures bring in something more Scandinavian. Practical. Honest. A little imperfect on purpose.
Play as method
There is play everywhere. Stickers and pins with mischievous lines about kitchen chaos. Instructions read almost like haiku poems.
Devotion to the everyday
At the end of it all, Sonic Gastronomic isn’t really about food or sound. Ida and Nicho offer something quiet: a world scaled to two people, building something out of ordinary evenings at home. Generous enough to invite us in, but grounded enough to remain intimate.
You leave wanting to cook. To play a record from start to finish. To dance in the kitchen while someone you love stirs a pot.
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