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Photos: For Norway's Terje Isungset, music is carved from ice

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Terje Isungset holds what will become an ice chime. The Norwegian musician performs entire concerts using only instruments made of ice.
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Gloves rest ice
Waterproof gloves rest on a block of ice as the carvers take a short break. "I've never had my lips freeze to an ice horn," says musician Terje Isungset. "But I have had frostbitten fingers."
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Terje Isungset
Terje Isungset holds what will become an ice chime. The Norwegian musician performs entire concerts using only instruments made of ice.
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Bill Covitz
Bill Covitz takes a chainsaw to a 300-pound block of ice on February 24, 2013, at the Ace Ice Company in Minneapolis, Minn. The master ice carver turns frozen water into xylophones, horns, drums and other instruments to be used in Norwegian musician Terje Isungset's concerts.
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