Sculptor Builds Instruments Out Of Ice!!

Tim Linhart is the founder and artistic genius behind Ice Music, a new hybrid art form in which musician’s play instruments made of ice. Linhart hand-carves all the “ICEstruments” played in the Ice Music concerts. He creates them in his backyard, in Lulea, Sweden, which is just south of the Arctic Circle. There, winter temperatures are often way below freezing, especially at night. Working outdoors, wearing only rubber dishwashing gloves—or no hand covering at all—Tim carves violins, violas, cellos, contra basses, banjos, mandolins, xylophones, drum kits, organs and instruments of his own invention, all from ice. The instruments are visually breath taking, with an ethereal translucency. He often embeds coloured LEDs in the instruments, which enhances their otherworldly appearance.

The journey to founding Ice Music started with a fluke, when Linhart carved an upright bass out of ice and was surprised to find that it sounded good. Now Ice Music holds regular winter concerts inside of a specially designed igloo in Sweden. The instruments require constant maintenance from Linhart, since even in cooler temperatures a musician’s body heat will cause troublesome melting.

 

This video is third in a series called Break The Cubicle.

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