An Orchestra That Plays Vegetables — and Serves Them as Soup

Did you know vegetables can be not just eaten but played like musical instruments? That’s exactly what the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra does, turning an unusual idea into music.

Before each performance, the members craft their instruments from fresh vegetables: zucchini trumpets, carrot flutes, eggplant rattles, a leek violin, and a pumpkin drum.

The orchestra plays styles ranging from jazz to electronic and dub, and they amplify the vegetables’ sounds with special microphones. At the end of the performance, the audience gets a surprise — the used “musical instruments” are turned into a soup that is prepared and served to the listeners. Would you attend such a “tasty” concert?