for the last 13 years, geilo has played host to norway's ice music festival, but this year after tooy wa ram years, the organisers decided that enough was enough. so on i go, upwards almost 500m in altitude, to the festival's new home in finse. oh, you really feel it, see it in the air, it is cold here. and it is this cold, the icy conditions and the elevation that drew polar explorers like shackleton to train here before they went on their expeditions. and people still come here for that reason today. word is it is going to reach a low of “211 celsius tonight. so we had better rug up. but what makes this festival extra special is that the instruments are actually made on the day from nearby ice. among the line—up this year is everything from ice horns to ice drums and ice didgeridoos. the concert is only hours away and here you are making the instruments. this has got to be an unusual thing for a musician? for me it is not, but for most musicians it is. good sounding ice is the most difficult part. you can'tjust go to your freezer or go to the nearest lake. it's with ice as with win