If you have not been cursed with a tin ear, you are definitely blessed with good sense of music. Have you ever thought of ending up listening to something ear candy and yet so very strange? If you haven’t, then the fact is awaiting you! Appreciate one of the weirdest attempts of making good music in recent past.
An exuberant and young Austrian musical group, ‘The Vegetable Orchestra’, tried its hand in tapping the skin of fresh vegetables to make music out of that! Back during the time of late ‘90s, these eleven vibrant brains worked best to create something offbeat. And their out-of-the-box thinking did click fine!
Based in Vienna, this group is popularly known as ‘Das erste Wiener Gemüseorchester’ in Europe. The chorus consists members that are pretty active in various fields of art. The orchestra seems to have sought its inspiration from John Cage’s innovative compositions. The very idea of composing tunes combining the effects of vegetable instruments has been considerably experimental. They make a few extremely innovative instruments from scratch right an hour before staging their performance using the freshest vegetables available which are obviously cooked into a soup following the performance.
The choir blows carved-out carrots, pats turnips, claps with eggplant cymbals, rustles parsley and green, bangs chopped cucumbers, twangs pumpkin’s skin and lot more. No doubt they make wonders! Finally, the sonorous sound winds up and reverberates across the Concert Hall.
The Vegetable Orchestra fuses the most diverse music styles. No musical boundary can actually limit the musicians. Extending from Contemporary to Jazz and from Noise to Dub, their musical scope has started expanding beyond the shadow of a doubt. ‘Sounds impressively tasty’, ain’t it?
Manjima Sarkar is an English Honours student at Loreto College, Kolkata. She is a dance enthusiast, an avid reader and an ardent music lover.The founder of 'Quirkopedia', Manjima is an aesthete in its true sense.
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