Vegetable Orchestra plays with their food

June 30, 10:19 AMTampa Vegan ExaminerElizabeth Holli Wood

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For a lot of vegans, their love for vegetable can border on fetishism. But the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra takes a love for vegetables to a whole new level. In the video below, the group is seen selecting their vegetables at the market, forming them into instruments, and performing them live. Who would have thought an avant-garde noise ensemble playing the carrot could sound so spooky?

According to their official website, “The Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made of vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini-vibrators, cucumberophones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetabile [sic] sound universe. The ensemble overcomes preserved and marinated sound conceptions or tirelessly re-stewed listening habits, putting its focus on expanding the variety of vegetable instruments, developing novel musical ideas and exploring fresh vegetable sound gardens."

While the group members are not vegetarian or vegan (the FAQ on their homepage responds to this question with “Don't ask again, we've heard this question 3 million times”), they do often cook up their vegetables after performances and serve them to the audience.
 

Photo from www.laronai.blogspot.com.