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The Sounds of Celery

Posted by Robyn Lee, June 21, 2007 at 4:00 PM

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Who needs guitars, keyboards or drums when you can use carrot recorders, celeriac bongos and leek violins? The 11 members of The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra create music from vegetables—sometimes modified, sometimes not—influenced by electronic sounds in contemporary electronic music. It's serious music that sounds better than anything I could play on a real instrument; take a listen or watch this video of their pre-concert preparations and performance:

If you live in Austria you can see The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra perform live tomorrow.

1 Comment | Tags: art, Austria, music, vegetables, Vienna

1 Comment:

Very, very cool video--especially for us vegetarians!

JEP at 5:40PM on 06/21/07

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