Siberian Ice Drummers Use Frozen Lake Baikal as a Musical Instrument

[Coyotl]

Mar 25, 2012

Lake BAIKAL ICE live sound. Unbeliveable!
Real video from IRKUTSK ethnik percussion group «ETHNOBEAT». We playing on frozen water of deepest and oldest Lake Baikal with pleasure and delight in the soul
Video created by Natalia Vlasevskaia for BAIKALSTORY

Recording has been made with Rode Videomic Stereo wearing DeadCat wind muff. You can see this setup in the titles at 3:50 (and a few DeadCat hairs were captured accidentally on 1:23-1:50). Yes, it's the great mic.

[RC]

1. That is some clear ice.

That might be the secret.

[Coyotl]

2. The World's 7th Largest & Deepest Lake, 25-Million-Years Old Is Really Pretty When It's Frozen

The World's 7th Largest & Deepest Lake, 25-Million-Years Old Is Really Pretty When It's Frozen
http://www.snowaddiction.org/2013/12/the-worlds-largest-and-deepest-lake-25-million-years-old-is-really-pretty-when-it-is-frozen.html

Located in south-east Siberia, Lake Baikal is an ice lover and ecological savant's dream come true. Oh, did we mention that it contains 1/5 of the world's unfrozen freshwater reserve (more than the Great Lakes combined)? Here it is all frozen and stuff. .....

The amazing Siberian ice orchestra playing on the world's deepest lake
http://siberiantimes.com/culture/music/features/the-amazing-siberian-ice-orchestra-playing-on-the-worlds-deepest-lake/

In minus 20C, they found by pure chance that the one metre thick ice has a distinctive and haunting rhythm all of its own, the coolest music on earth. We all know New Wave music, but this is Frozen Wave, with the tune made from tapping the ice-bound water of the 25 million year old lake, the oldest and deepest on the planet.

'It was the most fantastic experience I have ever had - and a very personal one', said Irkutsk architect Natalya Vlasevskaya, 31, a mother-of-one and organiser of Etnobit percussion group.

'I felt like we were playing on the drums that Nature has left out for us, alone under the sun on the frozen waters of the world's most magnificent lake.'

How did they realise they could make their own Coldplay on Baikal?

'The wife of one of our drummers, Sergei Purtyan, slipped and fell down, and as she landed on the ice, she made a very musical 'boooooom' sound - so nice and deep that her husband, who has a very good ear, said 'Hold on, what was it? How did you make that noise?' .................

[Plucketeer]

3. Loved this

Thanks for sharing!

[Cleita]

4. Really cool on two levels.

The second one is me getting virtual frostbite watching.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. Like STOMP goes to Siberia. Very cool!

[babydollhead]

6. this movie "Sound of Noise" is awesome

a symphony for 6 drummers and one city

[1monster]

7. Wonderful! thank you for sharing.

K & R

[klook]

8. So great

Resonant stones are lithophones, so I wonder what we call ice percussion? Lovely video, great celebration of life. Thanks for posting!

[Coyotl]

9. I suppose that would have to be glaciphonic drumming.

From the Latin, glacium.