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Nine wheels of Emmental cheese weighing 10
kilos (22 pounds) each were placed in separate wooden crates
last September to test the impact of music on flavor and aroma.
The cheese was exposed 24 hours a day to A Tribe Called Quest's
hip hop track "We Got it From Here", Mozart's 'Magic Flute'
opera or Led Zeppelin's rock classic "Stairway to Heaven".
One wheel was played the throbbing techno of Vril's "UV" and
another Yello's dark ambient piece "Monolith".
Soundwaves at low, medium and high frequencies were played for
three others while one wheel was left in peace.
"The most obvious differences were observed in strength of
flavor, smell and taste," Bern University of Arts researchers
said in reporting the findings of a culinary jury which did
blind tasting.
"The hip hop sample topped the list of all cheese exposed to
music in terms of fruitiness...(it) was the strongest of these
in terms of smell and taste."
Benjamin Luzuy, a Swiss TV chief and jury member, told Reuters
TV: "The differences were very clear, in term of texture, taste,
the appearance, there was really something very different."
The experiment, instead of using loudspeakers, used mini
transmitters to conduct the energy of the music into the cheese.
"All the energy is directly resonating inside of the cheese,"
Michael Harenberg of Bern University of Arts told Reuters.
Beat Wampfler, the cheesemaker behind the project, said the
cheeses were tested twice by the jury and both times the results
were more or less the same.
He said the experiment would now focus on hip hop.
"The idea is now to take 5 or 10 cheeses and put hip hop on them
and then compare."
(Writing by Stephanie Nebehay; editing by Jason Neely)
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