Ice Music
Mike Lawson • News • February 11, 2014
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The Ultimate Winter Orchestra
![The ICEconcert Hall in Luleå, Sweden.](https://ml9ja1xsq7e3.i.optimole.com/w:1024/h:682/q:mauto/ig:avif/https://sbomagazine.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/News/ICEconcertHall.jpg)
The ICEconcert Hall in Luleå, Sweden.
While much of the U.S. slogs through a cold, snowy winter, a group of artistic-minded people from an area where harsh winter weather is the norm have adapted some unique creative outlets. In what might be the most extreme ensemble of its kind, a Scandinavian group has created an entire orchestra out of ice.
Ice Music, based in Swedish Lapland, some of the northernmost inhabited territory on the planet, is a performing group that plays in a giant igloo on instruments built out of blocks of ice.
In order to protect the fragile instruments, (they call them “icestruments” – get it?) the concert hall is maintained at a steady temperature of -5 Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit), which is just slightly warmer than the average winter temperatures for the region. Check out this video for more:
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