OMG You Made That? Vegetable Instruments
Posted at 1:33 PM Dec 11, 2008
By Bonnie RubergI'm not a musical person, but I do like vegetables, and I am easily impressed. Thus my indescribable awe at the phenomenon that is vegetable instruments. My hour-long obsession started when I saw these photos of a veggie music making workshop held recently at The American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Do you see those zucchinis strung together to make a didgeridoo? Do you see them?
Then I came across these even more impressive videos of people playing their vegetable instruments. In the first a man turns a carrot into a clarinet. In the second, an entire group of people go produce shopping, and eventually form a vegetable orchestra. Granted, their music doesn't sound super amazing -- but vegetables! The next time I'm in the supermarket I'm going to be standing in the veggie aisle, holding up items, thinking, "Could I drill a bunch of holes into you and play you like a flute?" It may confuse the other shoppers, but it's all in the name of music.
