If I had emigrated to Austria from, say, Turkey, or some more desolate region in the Middle East, I would think that some of the natives of my host country had gone mad.
The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra performs music solely on instruments made from vegetables. Using carrot flutes, pumpkin basses, leek violins, leek-zucchini vibrators (sic), cucumberphones and celery bongos, the orchestra creates its own extraordinary and vegetable sound universe...One could easily leap from here to a Get Out of Europe trope, and a Bring The Troops Home theme. Maybe I just did. Russian tanks charging through the Fulda Gap is a remote possibility, because what is there to seize?
Forty years ago, in opposing American military defense of Western Europe, the otherwise reprehensible Norman Mailer speculated that the Russians would occupy it, and [the Soviet Empire] would "die of indigestion".
Music experimentation with vegetables is a novelty, not an innovation (there is an enormous difference), and the dour conservative knows that art is about two things - discovery and recognition. What about a cucumberphone?
In some important way, humans are meant to be better than this.
Rhod, I post the following to remind you of America's version of this.
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