We ’re smack - splatter in the middle of wintertime and baby , it ’s insensate outside ( or so I ’ve heard ; I hold up over inLOL ) . I imagine that it might be ruffianly to find the beauty in yet another twenty-four hour period of sub - zero temperatures , but for some enterprising originative type , bone - chilling frost is more than a major nuisance — it ’s the poppycock that musical dreams are made of .
Here , we ’ve rounded up eight examples of people using cat’s-paw composed only of shabu , result in transonic experiments that range from dim-witted percussion to incredibly intricate orchestral stylings . They ’re beautiful and a bit weird ; cower up around the distance heater and enjoy .
Ice Music Festival, Geilo, Norway
Terje Isungsetis a Norse musician and composer who has been honing his natural endowment since 1999 , and today might be the most noted ice maestro in the populace . This weekend is his time to shine , as the first full moon of the year will kick off the the ninth annualIce Music Festivalin the mountains of Geilo , Norway . For three days and nights , performer will run ice cellos , harps , horns , drums , and more . I ’ve been heed to these track online and the effect is hauntingly beautiful through my tinny laptop computer speakers , so I can only imagine the ambience if you were there , shivering through bundled layers in somebody .
Ice Music, Luleå, Sweden
If you ’re run to be jam on instrument made of flash-frozen urine , it seems like there ’s no good venue than an igloo , right ? C’m on ! Luleå is located at the way , way top ofSwedish Lapland , and for a limited time is home toIce Music , a sonic celebration of winter . Founder ( and ice-skating rink creative person ) Tim Linhart apparently fix all the instruments himself , which itself is impressive , but even more so when you hear the lineup : violin , viola , violoncello , string bass , banjo , mandolin , guitar , drums , xylophone and rolandophone . Unreal . dot for the trippy light effects and for having a common sense of humour — one of the runway they play is Pipeline , a classic by 1960s surf rockers The Chantays . [ The Local ]
Etnobit Percussion Group, Lake Baikal, Siberia
This is by far the most makeshift tout ensemble of the caboodle , but no less lovely to heed to . Lake Baikal is the earth ’s oldest—25 million years!—and deepest—5,000 feet!—freshwater lake , and a quintet of Russian adventurers discovered that the sheets of ice on top made a range of deep , thuddy tones when hit , banged , and patted . Siberian Stomp ! Some of the commenters say it ’s BS , but dammit I want to trust . [ Siberian Times ]
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