THE inventor of ice music is coming to Basingstoke with his exquisite new quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass.
Terje Isungset will be at The Anvil on Saturday, November 11 with an unusual and mesmerising ice concert.
The show is a tribute to the most important thing in the whole world - nature - and is based on music from Terje’s albums Winter Songs and Beauty of Winter, alongside new material.
Internationally known as the pioneer of ice music, Terje created the musical concept in 1999 as an extension of his interest in creating sound from naturally born materials.
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By seeking out different types of ice and playing them both acoustically and amplified, Terje successfully refined the techniques required to allow ice to ‘sing’, and in the following year, Terje was commissioned to perform ice music by creating the world’s first ice music concert inside a frozen waterfall in Lillehammer, Norway.
The instruments are made during Isungset’s annual Ice Music Festival in Norway and are carved and crafted using only natural frozen ice from the lakes.
Residents should prepare to be transported by the extraordinary, beautiful, and ethereal sounds of ice – like nothing you have heard before.
For more information and to buy tickets visit anvilarts.org.uk.
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