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Long Island Vegetable Orchestra
October 24, 2020 | 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Juncture places live performing artists on the lawn or in the gardens, offering a new dimension to your experience at Planting Fields.
Join us for an unexpected approach to musical sound with the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra on October 24. This seasonal harmonious harvest program will be fun for the whole family. The vegetable orchestra will be performing 3 sets over the duration of two hours while demonstrating how they create instruments out of vegetables as part of their program. The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra (LIVO) was founded in 2011 at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. LIVO was created by grammy-nominated, C.W. Post adjunct music professor, Dr. Dale Stuckenbruck. In 2005 Dr. Dale Stuckenbruck investigated carving musical instruments out of vegetables for a class at the Waldorf School of Garden City. After being featured by the New York Times, this Orchestra’s concert schedule has increased with events and press inquiries, including a feature on the Conan O’ Brien Show. LIVO performs with freshly prepared instruments such as a saxophone-soundalike “cucumberphone”, pumpkin bass drums struck with lemongrass, various carrot flutes, delicious dikon double reeds, butternut squashes that carry the sound of brass instruments, sweet potato ocarinas, completely natural carrinets, the “Squeaking Consort” and the unique tearing, crushing and pounding sounds of our percussion.
Players: Daniel Battaglia, Vincent Basileo, Alexandra Calabro.
Instruments: bamboo violin, bamboo cello, daikon radish, cucumber, carrot.
