Video: the vegetable orchestra

Searching for a unique live show amid the tiresome ubiquity of tight black jeans and ironic posturing? You're in luck, kid. A strange European phenomena known as The Vegetable Orchestra is coming to New York City this Wednesday. Set to play at the ungodly hour of 11 a.m. (that's A.M.) at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, this archipelago of randomness, brilliance and aggressive oddness-reminiscent of Yoko Ono during her grapefruit phase -is as refreshing a break from the current scene as the first balmy day of spring. Modeled after the Viennese Das [...]

Our latest free mix tape has a certain sense of refinement carried through tracks by the Cinematic Orchestra, the Quantic Soul Orchestra, Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, and Casiokids. But, overall, this mix should be considered as seriously as a tuxedo t-shirt. Fun rules. The title and cover art should be a giveaway that this is a semi-formal-casual mix tape. There is a certain sense of refinement carried through the festivities, but, overall, this mix the aural equivalent of a tuxedo t-shirt. "Orchestral" is a term applied with relative looseness here. Some of these tracks were indeed made by textbook [...]

• PopMatters - Orchestral Werks

Avreste mai detto di poter cavare del succo da una rapa? No, quello no, ma della musica da una carota? Nemmeno, ed invece è possibile, carta – o meglio, video - canta. Tra i video scovati dal progetto di comunicazione indipendente Inputs.tv , c'è anche quello della Vegetable Orchestra : maestri di conservatorio che si costruiscono strumenti musicali da frutta e verdura. Il risultato è stupefacente. Indubbia fonte di ispirazione per chi – professionista del settore o semplice appassionato di musica – sia alla ricerca di suoni alternativi e fuori dal mainstream. Inputs.tv , [...]

these people are living out every little kids dream. instead of eating their vegetables they are using them to make music. check out this very unique group of musicians called the 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:" via Mountain Music Project.

Esto puede sonar como una broma pero es de lo más literal. Un grupo de músicos de conservatorio y entrenamiento clásico en Austria se juntan para darle un toque de lo más innovador a sus composiciones; hacen sus instrumentos de vegetales o de vegetales sus instrumentos, mejor dicho. Los resultados son de lo más sorprendentes, en verdad. Esta es la Vienna Vegetable Orchestra en acción: Puedes encontrar mucha más [...]