These artists create electronic music using fruit as instruments

Turns out you can create instruments with pretty much anything— even fruit.

The Austrian artists Bernardo Vercelli and Fabio Di Salvo produce electronic beats using pineapples, bananas, and pears in their recent project, "Natura Morta" (or "Still Life"). The duo make up the Quiet Ensemble, and focus on sound performance in their work.

"We like the idea of a fruit being an organic element. And with this inner energy, it is able to create sound," Di Salvo tells Tech Insider.

The Quiet Ensemble is currently performing "Natura Morta" in art spaces throughout Austria, Italy, Brazil, and France. For local performances, they gather their fruits from a grocer right outside their studio in Vienna.

They stab the fruits with metal prongs that send electric currents through the fruit and amplify different sounds through the connected speakers. Every fruit has a specific rhythm, so the composition sounds different every time, Vercelli says.

Half of their performances are actually improvised. They let the natural sounds from the fruits dictate the rest. "We like to have partial control of the chaos," Vercelli says.