It's not impossible to make music with vegetables.

用蔬菜演奏音樂不是不可能的。

My name is Susanna Gartmayer and I'm a member of the Vegetable Orchestra.

我的名字是 Susanna Gartmayer，我是蔬果管弦樂團的成員。

The orchestra exists since 18 years now.

這個管弦樂團於 18 年前創立。

The first instrument was the tomato, because you can do sound with tomatoes, but it will be messy, for sure.

第一個使用的樂器是番茄，因為它很好發出聲音，但當然也很容易搞得一團亂。

We go shopping on the market first.

我們會先去市場採買。

We choose all the vegetables there.

我們會在那裡選好所有的蔬菜。

We have three kinds of instruments.

我們有三大類樂器。

One is the ready-made; you can just buy it at the market and play it.

第一種是現成的，從市場買了就可以直接拿來演奏。

It's like the pepper, it's called, no?

像是椒類，這是它們的名字，對吧？

It's ready already.

它已經可以使用了。

And then there is simple instruments, like with one cut or some cuts; we get it like that.

第二種是簡易樂器，只需要切個幾刀。就像這樣演奏。

Then, with the more complex instruments, we have some that work like normal instruments.

最後，製作過程比較複雜的樂器，有些的作用就跟一般樂器一樣。

You know, the pumpkin is the bass drum, and the sound of the pumpkin is really important.

就像我們會把南瓜當作低音鼓，而南瓜的聲音是非常重要的。

Good.

很好。

After shopping, we go to the venue and start to build instruments.

採購完畢後，我們會前往表演地，開始製作樂器。

All in all, it takes 2 to 3 hours to build all the instruments for everybody.

我們總共要花上 2 到 3 小時來製作所有人的樂器。

And then we start with the sound check.

接著我們會開始校音。

And since we have new instruments each time, we have to have a very long sound check.

因為我們每次都會有新的樂器，所以我們在校音時會花上很長一段時間。

We have a lot of different musical influences in the orchestra.

我們的管弦樂團會受各種不同的音樂影響。

Since we're really many people, everybody's interested in different things.

因為我們樂團人數眾多，每個人的興趣也大為不同。

We make a soup during the building process of the vegetable instruments with the remaining vegetables, and we serve it to the audience after the concert.

我們在製作蔬菜樂器的過程中，會把剩下的食材料拿來煮湯，並在音樂會後讓觀眾品嚐。

And it's also after hearing and seeing us and smelling the vegetables, which will be intense in there because it's so small, this theater, and then you can also eat it.

在欣賞完音樂演出，並聞著因為場地太小而更趨濃郁的蔬菜湯香氣後，你就可以開動了。

You never get it out of your head anymore, if you're in the orchestra, to look vegetables in another way.

一旦你加入這個樂團，你的腦子就再也無法以其他方式看待蔬菜了。