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Jürgen Berlakovich

About

Jürgen Berlakovich (born 1970, Vienna) is an Austrian writer, musician and sound artist working at the intersection of literature, experimental electronics and sound art. He studied German philology and philosophy at the University of Vienna and has been a founding member of The Vegetable Orchestra since 1998 - an ensemble that plays exclusively on instruments made from fresh vegetables and earned a Guinness World Record in 2025 for the most concerts by such a group. Beyond the orchestra he runs the solo project Takamovsky, co-founded the literature-and-music duo Sergej Mohntau, and teaches Acoustic Poetics at Vienna's schule für dichtung and Madrid's Escuela de Escritores. His compositions draw on DNA sonifications, granulated voice particles and electronics.

346
concerts by The Vegetable Orchestra (Guinness record, as of April 2025)
4
albums released with The Vegetable Orchestra
1998
year of founding of The Vegetable Orchestra (Vienna)

What's new

  • 2026-03

    Berlakovich participated in a live recording session of the Geschiebe project at Amann Studios in Vienna, where he combined live electronics with field recordings.

  • 2026-02

    Berlakovich led a masterclass Acoustic Poetics at Escuela de Escritores in Madrid.

  • 2025-12

    The Vegetable Orchestra performed at the Wonderfruit festival in Pattaya, Thailand.

  • 2025-07

    The Vegetable Orchestra performed a concert at Teatro capovolto in Trento, Italy and held a workshop at the French Festival Hirondelle.

  • 2025-03

    The Vegetable Orchestra set a Guinness record for the highest number of vegetable orchestra concerts - a total of 344 performances over 27 years.

Tracks

Onionoisealbum The Vegetable Orchestra from 2010, experimental vegetable sound
In Streamsdebut album of the Takamovsky project (2013), electronics and sound textures
Sonic Counterpointsecond album Takamovsky (2016), ambient and experimental electronics
Instrumentum Vocalebook + CD (Klever Verlag, 2014), 40 textual and sound figures from granulated voices
Palindromsongsalbum of the duo Sergej Mohntau (2006), literary-musical performance

😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.

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