The Vegetable Orchestra performs with instruments made from fresh vegetables, which must be built anew for each concert and each rehearsal. The use of various vegetable instruments which are constantly being refined creates a musically and aesthetically unique universe of sound, which cannot be achieved with traditional instruments.
A concert of The Vegetable Orchestra appeals to all the senses, and after a short time a wonderful smell of vegetables is in the air. As an encore, at the end of the concert, the audience is offered fresh vegetable soup served by the musicians themselves. The audience will also be able to take a closer look at the instruments being used and can also take most of them with them home!
Which other orchestra can offer that to it's audience?
The Vegetable Orchestra was founded in Vienna in the year 1998 and has played more than 200 concerts at very different venues (concert halls, greenhouses, mountain huts, clubs, ships, and festivals for classical, electronic, improvised and world music).
In artistic, aesthetic and infrastructural decisions of importance all twelve members of the ensemble have their equal vote. The collective is a mix of people with different artistic backgrounds. Musicians, visual artists, architects, designers, media artists, writers and sound-poets all come together here.
There are no musical boundaries for the Vegetable Orchestra. The most diverse music styles fuse here – contemporary music, beat-oriented House tracks, experimental Electronic, Free Jazz, Noise, Dub, Clicks'n'Cuts - the musical scope of the project expands never-endingly, and recently-developed vegetable instruments and their inherent sounds often determine the stylistic direction.
"Vegetable Orchestra"
Jürgen Berlakovich, Nikolaus Gansterer, Susanna Gartmayer,
Barbara Kaiser, Matthias Meinjarter, Jörg Piringer,
Ernst Reitermaier, Richard Repey, Ingrid Schloegl,
Marie Steinauer, Ulrich Troyer, Tamara Wilhelm