Britain awaits the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

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A friend sent this along to me and I thought I would share it with you!

 

 

 

By Laura Clout

Telegraph 16/11/2007

 

They give the phrase 'playing with your food' a whole new meaning - and now the

Vienna Vegetable Orchestra is coming to Britain.

 

The unique ensemble, which performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables,

will play at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival next week.

 

 

A range of the orchestra's prize instruments

 

Founded in 1998, the 11-strong group carve their produce before every show,

using celeriac bongos, carrot recorders and the multi-vegetable 'cucumberphone'

to play everything from contemporary to house, jazz to classical.

 

They prefer organic produce and use highly sensitive microphones to pick up the

subtlest crunch of onion skin or squeak of lettuce leaves.

 

" We got the idea one day while we were cooking and chopping tomatoes, " Nicklaus

Gansterer, co-founder of the orchestra, said. " We got fascinated with the sound

the chopping made, and from that moment we have started to hear music in a new

way. "

 

VVO performs 20 to 30 times a year around the world, including benefit concerts

for vegetable workers in Southern Spain, who the musicians say endure " inhumane

conditions " .

 

Performances promise to " appeal to all the senses " , and at the end of most

concerts the audience is offered fresh vegetable soup made from the instruments.

 

However, hungry fans in Huddersfield will be disappointed, as Health and Safety

regulations mean soup is banned - even without the parts the orchestra have

blown on.

The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra play at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music

Festival (01484 425082; www.hcmf.co.uk) on November 24.

 

Links:

http://www.gemueseorchester.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage & Itemid=1

 

 

 

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Craig,

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