Photography by Karin Aberg
Tim Linhart, who has been working as an ice artist for 30 years, has moved from Colorado, to Sweden, to build instruments and put on concerts he calls Ice Music.
Each of the instruments, which are all made from ice, are created at Tim’s home in his garden, and he calls them ICESTRUMENTS.
Photography by Karin Aberg
He has now built so many ICESTRUMENTS that he has enough for his own little orchestra.
Photography by Karin Aberg
The ICE orchestra includes instruments made of ice, known as ICESTRUMENTS. The pieces include a violin, viola, cello, contrabass, banjo, mandolin, guitar, drums, xylophone and rolandophone.
Photography by Karin Aberg
Now to play these instruments, they need to be kept cold, and some, like the violins, need to be hung from ropes for safety reasons as they are very fragile.
Photography by Karin Aberg
The ICESTRUMENTS, are played by skilled musicians in an igloo concert hall in Sweden.
Photography by Graeme Richardson
Here you can see how the instruments are stored in carved out sections of the icy concert hall.
Photography by Graeme Richardson
It’s a bit cold in the concert hall, with an constant indoor temperature of about ca -5 C (23 F), so everyone, including the musicians, have to wear warm winter clothes to keep warm.
Photography by Karin Aberg
The concert hall can hold as many as 200 people, and it has been designed so that light shows can glow and pulsate in various colors, while the musicians are performing.
Photography by Graeme Richardson
To hear how the instruments and concert hall sounds, watch the video below by P2 Photography.