Video: Ice music of ice instruments. Performance by Terje Isungset at Ice Music Geilo Festival in Norway
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Amazing things are happening in Norway, in the ski resort of Geilo. Every year they arrange there Ice Music Geilo Festival: a festival in which all participants play musical instruments made of ice. The main character of this festival is the Norwegian musician and artist Terje Isungset. It is he who is the author of ice musical instruments, which he not only creates online, but also performs his amazing music on them. Unfortunately, some ice and snow decorations, instruments and accessories do not live up to the end of the performance, and fall apart before the musician finishes the melody, but this is an everyday matter. During the festival in Geilo, there is so much ice and snow that it is not a problem to make a new instrument.
It is curious that the musician has been creating ice music, as well as ice instruments, relatively recently. The author fell in love with this unexpected art no later than 2000, and since then every year he confirms his love during the Norwegian Ice Music Geilo festival. Terje Isungset describes the process of making ice instruments for ice music as hard work and continuous learning. As a rule, his ice sculptures depict percussion instruments, but among them there are also a guitar, harp, trumpet, and even a violin, laser-cut from a block of ice. All instruments are made of pure ice collected from glaciers, so you can see through them as if through a window glass.
On account of the original sculptor and other unusual musical instruments made of Karelian birch, granite, slate. You can see and hear how ice music sounds and looks in the following video, or on the website of the traditional Norwegian performance Ice Music Geilo Festival.
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