Are you really sure that carrots, squash, celery, courgettes, lettuce, leeks, cucumbers, peppers, aubergines, vegetables and various vegetables are only useful for preparing colorful summer salads and tasty rustic pies? What if they were used for something else, such as… musical instruments? Does this seem too bizarre an idea?
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Are you really sure that carrots, pumpkin, celery, zucchini, lettuce, leeks, cucumbers, pepperoni, aubergines, vegetables and various vegetables are only useful for preparing colorful summer salads and appetizing rustic pies? What if they were used for something else, such as ... musical instruments? Does this seem too bizarre an idea?
Then you have never heard of the Vegetable Orchestra, a musical project born in Vienna in 1998, which grew up rather quickly and always ready to face the limelight in theaters all over Europe, to grant the audience unique, “multisensory” and tasty performances. With the ambition to bring people closer to the environment, through the music.
We are talking about a 'twelve-piece orchestra, perhaps a little eccentric, but based on the same rules as a traditional orchestra. Although here vegetables and vegetables - strictly fresh - replace all tools. After a process that we could define as "artisanal", to drill, dig and carve each element in the right and most "musical" way, carrots and peppers can become wind instruments, celery and lettuce are transformed into violins and pumpkins and leeks into musical instruments. percussion.
The only limitation is that, for easily understandable reasons, the instruments obtained from the vegetables last the space of a single concert and they must be constantly (and patiently) reproduced. In their concerts, the Vegetable Orchestra is able to deal with any type of music, from contemporary to electronic, to jazz, with the declared aim of bringing to light the natural sounds inherent in each vegetable. On the occasion of each performance, the public gathered to listen to the Orchestra and enjoy the spectacle of vegetables transformed into musical instruments receives a complimentary hot vegetable soup to be enjoyed in complete harmony.
For the curious, here is a video showing both the preparation phase of the instruments and that of the actual concert:
