[Tim Linhart] wanted to do something different for this Swedish music festival — so he decided to carve all the instruments by hand, out of ice.
The festival consists of seven bands playing very different musical styles, with over 40 concerts occurring during the festival. [Tim Linhart] has painstakingly carved each instrument from violins to cellos out of individual sheets of ice. He adds strings and fret-boards to complete each piece, and if the temperature goes above zero it’s game over. The concerts are held in a building made of ice to make sure this doesn’t happen.
And since they are built out of layers — he’s also thrown in some RGB LEDs to give the instruments a bit more pizzazz. They actually sound pretty good too!
[Tim] is kinder to his instruments than [Matz Robert Eriksson] was to his ice drums. For some other unconventional instruments, do you remember our controversial piece on Disarm? Turning guns into a mechanized orchestra! Typewriters make interesting instruments as well.
[Thanks Joshua!]
That crowd was wild.
That crowd was frozen stiff.
He could’ve added a small amount of cotton with the frozen water. It may give the instrument a bit more strength for a longer period of time.
Or wood pulp, as they did in Project Habakkuk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk
How does this even work? The tension on some stringed instruments is hundreds of pounds.
the ice is not clear, they must have added something to it to make it strong, like they make pykrete.
In some of the images, it looks like there’s a structural support down the back of the instrument. But I still don’t understand how the top withstands the pressure on the bridge… unless the bodies are solid ice and the amplification is purely electronic instead of acoustic.
They’re using “silent” instruments and they just built the bodies around them.
Here’s a picture: http://design-real.com/instrument/silent-instruments/resources/yamaha.jpg
Here’s a video of a silent guitar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv6VmUyTF04
Cool
Prehende uxorem meam, sis! (What, I’m trying to class the palce up.)
by pimping your wife? — thanks to google, School&Latin were a long time ago.:(
That guys missed the concept of a resonance body. This is why it sounds so bad.