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Re: [sc-users] Merry X-mas

i saw a show on the tv on svt about the ice-cello etc. makers. they crush up ice and add water and shape it. eventually the body is formed and they attach non-ice end pieces, a bridge and strings (which can be tensioned normally!) i can't remember if they added a wooden neck or not, but the body sides and top were all ice, and very beautiful. also: ice-flutes. of course, easier to make, but it melts as you play it! unfortunately the music they played on the tv show was sort of new- age prettiness.
i tried recording ice when the lake freezes and it makes strange sounds, but haven't captured it yet. i was sure last spring i would get the ice-breakage, but again, no luck. (when i was at visby, it was summer so i had to record rocks.) in terms of ice instruments, i think i would prefer something that made sounds more intrinsic to the ice itself.
thanks for christmas greetings, jesper. this is the first christmas in a while i haven't been in stockholm. 

On Dec 27, 2005, at 4:36 PM, fons adriaensen wrote:


On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:45:03PM +0100, Jesper Elén wrote:


You can stay at the Ice-hotel where everything
is made of ice. They even have a theatre ( modelled
after Shakespeare  but in ice and do concerts with
ice-marimbas and cellos…


I can imagine an ice-marimba going 'pong', but what
about the cellos ? Ice-strings ?

I was in Kiruna some years ago for work, and had a look
at the ice hotel. The Absolut is served in ice-glasses.
Didn't sleep there but noticed the Japanese...


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