Göteborgs Konserthus Ice cold with Terje Isungset Ice Quartet

Terje Isungset has performed in Stenhammarsalen  several times with shimmering improvisations as the drummer in folk music ensemble Group. Now he returns with water in solid form.

Since 1999, when Isungset composed music under a frozen waterfall in Lillehammer, he has explored the extraordinary sound potential of ice. This has resulted in several albums of ice music and an annual Ice Music Festival.

Isungset’s discovery of the music of ice resulted from a moment of pure inspiration: “I was recording the sound of the waterfall when I was just struck by the ice. It was so beautiful. It was like being in love.”

With instruments such as an ice harp, ice horn, iceophone and ice bass alongside more traditional instruments and songs, the quartet freely explores an evocative and dynamic style. The unpredictability of the instruments results in a unique concert every time: bubbling sounds, cool overtones and rhythms that bear traces of the landscape in which melting water once froze and became ice.