Das Erste Wiener Gemüseorchester

Echoing the music making process of artists such as San Francisco, USA-based sampling duo Matmos or (even more closely) UK experimentalists the Sonic Catering Band, Das Erste Wiener Gem++seorchester (the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra) play music almost entirely on vegetable instruments. They blow on hollowed out carrots, tap on onions, clap with aubergine cymbals, rustle parsley, and pluck on the fibres of rhubarb. These instruments are supplanted by various additional kitchen utensils (such as knives and blenders, the latter being the only readily identifiable sound on the...