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ice trumpet: Terje Isungset
Ice music produces a range of sounds that seem familiar and strange at the same time. There’s an airiness in some sounds, while other ice pieces sound almost like glass when struck. In this excerpt...
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ice music: not one, but two! annual festivals
My interest in the science of ice is pretty much instantly displaced by a surge of creative alertness the minute I hear ice music. Ice drum, ice marimba, ice trumpet, ice harp: the sounds are...
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found ice music: jumble ice
ice among us. continuous complex sounds. a minute’s worth of found ice music coming from a piece of jumble ice on the yukon river shore near dawson city, yukon, late may 2009. Posted in contains video,...
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ice in art: Ice Ice
Another moment where ice and percussion spontaneously coexist: Vancouver artist Julianne Claire submits this spontaneously filmed short video Ice Ice, 2008; legs – Mark Dahl. Julianne writes: “A late...
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charles stankievech: DEW project
The first artwork I “met” by Charles Stankievech, a Montreal/Dawson City multimedia artist, was his delicate, subtle work Whispers (for WB) at the Parisian Laundry (Montreal) in 2005. For this piece,...
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karin rehnqvist: ice music for chamber orchestra
To compose for instruments of ice requires a large dose of intuition and a pinch of craziness. How will these instruments possibly sound? One has to guess: most likely softer or probably not so...
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terje isungset: ice trumpeter seeks glaciers
One thing that strikes me about at Norwegian percussionist Terje Isungset‘s invented instruments is how personalized they are. Isungset is one of only a handful of people in the world to make ice...
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a playable record made of ice
News of this enticing object came my way in the form of a FB post from a friend. Clicking through link after link and blog after blog that tracks this innovation, I’ve discovered music-lovers and...
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