Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe GEILO, Norway, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A Norwegian composer gathered musicians in a remote town to play instruments carved from ice for an annual Ice Music Festival. Terje Isungset, who came up with the idea for the Ice Music Festival in 2005, led musicians playing instruments including the xylophone-like iceofon, the trumpet-inspired icehorn and a set of frozen chimes called an isringle for the annual Ice Music Festival in Geilo, held earlier this month. Advertisement Isungset has been growing the popularity of ice music in recent years, his latest album, Meditations, features all ice instruments being played in the areas where the ice was harvested. He said visitors to the ice festival come from all over the world. "I like to challenge people. Some years ago, we had some Indians from Guatemala. They had never seen snow before, or ice. And they came and they performed on instruments made out of ice," Terje told China's state-run Xinhua news agency. Read More Indiana teen turns snow into stunning sculptures Jeep leaves behind ice sculpture of its front end New York state pond becomes 50-foot 'ice volcano' Cupid, train carved from ice at Chinese festival
