Icemusic recorded inside an igloo at Bergsjø in Norway.

The music was composed to be a part of an exhibition by artist Tone Dietrichson from Norway www.tonedietrichson.com

Video of the exhibition: www.facebook.com/624192212/videos/434597912787574/

Some words about the exhibition:
'Everything you passes by' is a monumental work consisting of 360 hand-cast mask-like faces. The introverted, dream-like faces may allude to a repressed material rising to the surface. The repetition creates a suggestive rhythm of repetition, a chorus of voices that exists somewhere between visibility and withdrawal, dream and reality. Here the individual is strongly downplayed and there is an awe-inspiring and threatening dimension in the phonetic sense of the unison chorus. The composition can be interpreted in the direction that all choices or lack thereof on elections have its consequences. Repression and oblivion is a survival drive which sometimes pulsates forth from the unconscious. The work can also be associated with a part in Peer Gynt's 5th act where Peer meets himself in the form of voices that remind him of all the undone and unlived: "We are thoughts; you never thought. We are the solution; you should have asked us. We are the songs; you should have sung us! A thousand times you have squeezed and forced us. In the pit of your heart we have lain and waited; we were never picked up. We are tears where none were shed. Ice stings that hurt, we could melt. Now the sting sits in the fur; the wound closed; our power is extinguished.

Staur

In dialogue with 'Everything you passes by', a group of sculptures hanging from the wall has been installed with the title staur. Associations go in the direction of Asbjørnsen and Moe's adventure where nature is animated, given personality and a life of its own. The expression also gives a humorous input to all Peer Gynt's Kong thoughts and other thoughts that never came to fruition.
The sculptures take on a similar function as in 'Everything you passes by' and become a metaphor for the voices or the bow, and everything you passes by or without. The faces are well integrated into the wood material, but cast from 6 layers of tissue paper, each layer reinforced with hard paste and papier mache. They are then processed with oilpaint. 

Credits

released July 1, 2024
Terje Isungset - ice horn, ice percussion and iceofone.
Bodil Lunde Rørtveit - voice.

Music composed by Terje Isungset.
Recorded by Tor Magne Hallibakken.
Mixed by Terje Isungset.
Mastered by Tor Magne Hallibakken.
Cover art by Mildrid Isungset.
Cover photo by Terje Isungset (this is an image taken at Greenland. The structure in the photo is nature made and have been stored inside the glacier ice for hundreds of thousands of years).