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Lickestra

Performance Art involving making music from ice cream licking

Feb 27, 2014 | By Staff Writer

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Ever thought licking ice cream could produce music (aside from the occasional slurping noises)? Two New York-based designers, Emilie Lucie Baltz and Carla Diana, have collaborated with the musician Arone Dyer from Buke & Gase to produce a performance art that involves music being produced from ice cream licking. How melodious can ice cream licking sound? For this performance, titled lickestra, a series of different flavored ice creams are positioned on four white pedestals. Each ice cream cone is connected to a computer software and triggers different sounds when licked, which are played through speakers. There are a variety of flavors, including exotic ones such as Ceyanne chocolate. The ice cream licking triggers a range of sounds from deep base lines to high-pitched tones. Despite some improvisational parts, the music produced is orchestrated according to a score composed by Dyer. EmilieĀ baltz explains, ā€˜the eater becomes a performer as the primitive act of licking reaches beyond flavor perception to become an instrument for play.ā€™Ā The orchestra of ice cream licking performers only complete the song when all the ice cream is licked.Ā 

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Lickestra

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Learn more about the project here!Ā 

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Images from designboom


 
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