Concert by ice music pioneer Terje Isungset features mesmerising voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion and ice bass

TERJE Isungset Ice Quartet is touring to Basingstoke on Saturday, November 11 (8pm).

The inventor of ice music, Terje Isungset, comes to The Anvil with his exquisite new quartet featuring voice, ice harp, ice horn, iceophone, ice percussion, and ice bass.

This unusual and mesmerising ice concert, 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 brand-new material.

Internationally known as the pioneer of Ice Music, Terje created the musical concept in 1999 as an extension to his interest in creating sound from naturally born materials.

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 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.

Prepare to be transported by the extraordinary, beautiful, and ethereal sounds of ice – like nothing you have heard before.

The Quartet features:

Terje Isungset on ice drums, ice percussion, ice horns and iceofone

Amalie Holt Kleive vocals, ice percussion and water

Julie Rokseth, ice harp

Toivo Fjose, ice bass

Mathias Grønsdal, sound design

Ina Charlotte Moe, ice logistics.

Tickets are priced at £24 (includes £4 booking fee). Contact the Anvil Arts box office on 01256 844244 or visit anvilarts.org.uk.