Your mother probably told you not to play with your food. But did she tell you not to play your food? As Morgen described on Interesting Thing of the Day, the members of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra do just that. The morning of each performance, they go shopping at a local produce market and pick out the specimens they think will make the best sounds. Then they set to work creating the instruments for that night’s show—mostly percussion instruments, but also flutes made of carrots, horns made from bell peppers, and all sorts of other weird concoctions. And these guys can really get a groove on (as the video demonstrates). After the show, they serve vegetable soup to the audience—though not, thankfully, made from the actual instruments that were just played! Way cool.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
superb !!!
April 14th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
may I make a disc of it to shre with friends?
April 14th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
I ment share with friends
April 14th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Roxanne: Glad you liked it. We don’t own the rights to the music/video, so you’ll have to track down the owners to see if it’s OK with them for you to make a disc.
April 13th, 2013 at 8:57 pm
Those instruments taste and smell good too, yeah, I’m sure!