usernamenumber | Behold... ZUCCHINIDRUM!

So, my brother grew this zucchini in his garden...

It was pretty darn big.

I was fidgeting with it and realized that because it is thicker on one end, it actually produces distinct sounds on each end if you strike it like a drum, and it was big enough to actually have a pretty nice resonance. I began to first absent-mindedly, and then more thoughtfully, tap-tap-tap upon it.

I became... fascinated.

Family members commented. It was suggested that I had spent more time with the zucchini than with my infant neice. This was of course a scandalous lie, and yet it is true that the sounds of this oblong green bongo were developing for me a strange allure. While the family was all gathered in the living room chatting, I tried and failed to be discreet in gathering up the zucchini and my backpack, in which I carry my recording equipment, and wordlessly, perhaps worryingly, disappeared into the bathroom for about ten minutes.

Fortunately my family is far too polite to comment upon, let alone inquire after, such things. Then again, perhaps having left what I was doing in there up to peoples' imaginations was not the best plan. In any case, I digress.

Having not-so-secreted myself away, I sat down, broke out the recording gear and started banging away. The results are better than I'd expected, so without further ado, I give you...

ZUCCHINI DRUM! (initial field recordings)

(after showing him this, my friend Victor introduced me to The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. Perhaps I've found my calling...)