The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

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 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.
Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe.

The Vegetable Orchestra was founded in 1998. Based in Vienna, the Vegetable Orchestra plays concerts in all over the world.

There are no musical boundaries for the Vegetable Orchestra. The most diverse music styles fuse here - contemporary music, beat-oriented House tracks, experimental Electronic, Free Jazz, Noise, Dub, Clicks'n'Cuts - the musical scope of the ensemble expands consistently, and recently developed vegetable instruments and their inherent sounds often determine the direction.

ensemble:
Jürgen BERLAKOVICH
Nikolaus GANSTERER
Susanna GARTMAYER
Barbara KAISER
Matthias MEINHARTER
Jörg PIRINGER
Ernst REITERMAIER
Richard REPEY
Ingrid SCHLÖGL
Marie STEINAUER
Ulrich TROYER
Tamara WILHELM





INSTRUMENTS

zwiebelschalen
onion peels

zellerbongos
celeriac bongos

salat
lettuce

paprikatröte
pepper trumpet

melanzaniklappe
aubergine clap

lauchgeige
leek violin

kürbis
pumpkin

karottensticks
carrot sticks

karottenflöte
carrot recorder

gurkophon
cucumberphone

gurkeninstrument
cucumber instrument

bohnen
beans

SOURCE INFO
http://www.gemueseorchester.org