The acoustics of vegetables: Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

Incredibly innovative with their sound and style, the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra plays nothing but vegetables and kitchen tools. Consisting of eleven musicians, one cook, and one sound engineer, the orchestra incorporates a spectrum musical styles including contemporary music, free jazz, noise, dub, experimental electronic, and house beets. Some of their instruments include onion peels, pepper trumpets, leek violins, pumpkin bongos, carrot flutes, and cucumberphones.

The scrap vegetable parts left over from the making of the instruments are cooked and served to the audience after the show, making the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra a delightful, dinner-and-a-movie type experience (with a little funk thrown in).

Every now and then, the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra hosts instrument building workshops to educate people in the art of playing with food and making vegstruments at home.

We need an equivalent of this fabulous group in the United States don’t you think?

Visit the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra web site: Vienna Vegetable Orchestra