
Cool room —
Up to 170 audience members chill with the band in an igloo auditorium. The organizers' clothing advice? Layer.

Wake up to winter —
Most people don't believe ice instruments can produce anything worth listening to. The crystal clear sound makes them believers.

Cold as ice. Obviously —
Guitars are among the more durable ice instruments. You can play them hard, and they might even last the winter.

Ice bar —
Bicycle inner tubes beneath the ice xylophone's bars improve resonance.

Ice king —
American expat Tim Linhart carves all the orchestra's ice instruments in a shelter in his garden each winter. And, no, there's no heater under that bench.

Malleable material —
Ice instruments are much faster to make than conventional ones, Linhart says. "The chisel just glides through."

Crystal clarity —
The sound is also sharper, Linhart says, but ice instruments are also more fragile than those in a traditional orchestra. Insurance must be tricky.

Supersonic —
"You might think the sound on a normal instrument is perfectly clear -- until you hear an ice instrument and go, 'Ah ha!'," says Linhart.

'Nightclub in heaven' —
A concert in the igloo auditorium is "like a nightclub in heaven," according to Linhart.

Next up —
Linhart's next icy creation? An ultralight plane. He'll be flying.


