Elemental View

Ellen Fullman & The Living Earth Show

Elemental View is a musical work in six movements by pioneering composer Ellen Fullman for her Long String Instrument and the experimental music duo The Living Earth Show—guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson. The expansive installation inhabits EMPAC Concert Hall with its 136 strings, precisely tuned and configured for this multi-movement piece. Elemental View invites the listener to discover, as if with a magnifying glass, the details of the physics of string vibration itself. 

ELLEN FULLMAN (US) / THERESA WONG (US) + ANNEA LOCKWOOD (NZ) / VANESSA TOMLINSON

SOUNDLESS + SKIN RESONANCE

North and South presents world premieres and new music commissions from world class artists as they all converge on Sydney for a two-night series of incredibly special musical moments. 

Created in collaboration with composer, artist, curator and Lawrence English (Room40), this music performance series will activate the Art Gallery’s campus on Wednesday evenings during the Volume festival. Exploratory sonic approaches orbiting outward from drifting ambience, neo-classical forms and reductive electronics will be presented over a series of events, with a focus on intergenerational performance, emerging Indigenous musicians and international senior career musicians.

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This will be the 37th Anniversary of my performance on the same site on March 19, 1985. I will perform with graduate students and screen Elemental View, a documentary filmed by This Land Films and commissioned by a Gerbode Special Awards in the Arts, performed with The Living Earth Show at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

We enter the space as if inside a gigantic instrument, a sound belly, a resonance box on the scale of the place where the low and high frequencies vibrate.

The high point of sound experimentation once again poses its speakers at the Saint-Paul church and continues to draw the panorama of a plural and alternative musical creation. This fourth volume unfolds in three stages, with the exceptional presence of Ellen Fullman . The American composer, performer and instrument maker, collaborator of Pauline Oliveros and specialist in natural intonation installs her Long String Instrument in the nave of the church. An oversized instrument built in situ with vibrating strings over twenty meters long — for an incredible listening experience.
After Infinity Gradient and Drift Multiply in 2021, Tristan Perich is back in Strasbourg. He presents another facet of his practice, this time purely electronic, with Tone Patterns and Noise Patterns , two mirror projects that are based on the 1-BIT devices of which he has the secret. His performances are put into perspective with organ pieces by György Ligeti interpreted by Shin-Young Lee , including the famous Volumina .
The evening ends with La Tène in an expanded workforce: Alexis Degrenier, Cyril Bondi and Laurent Peter (aka d'incise) invite Guilhem Lacroux, Jérémie Sauvage, Louis Jacques and Jacques Puech. Hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes, cabrette, Indian harmonium, guitar, bass, percussion… An immersion in the bumblebees of the Iron Age, an inundation by sound continuums — a folklore of the future past.

As part of the 2020 online program, Unsound presents Weavings, a durational improvisation structured in the manner of a long fabric of sound. Echoing yarns or threads becoming interlaced, each performer plays with two other performers, the one who comes before and the one who comes after. Conceived and curated with Nicolás Jaar, this performance will host a number of artists and instrumentalists from around the world. All the artists will perform live, although due to the experimental nature of the technology used, we will pre-record this event a day earlier.

Artists include: Aho Ssan, Ka Baird, Angel Bat Dawid, Ellen Fullman, Dira Kalash, Księżyc, Laraaji, Nicolás Jaar, Resina, Raphael Roginski, Paweł Szamburski, Rolando Hernández and Wukir Suryadi & Rully Shabara of Senyawa.

Ellen will demonstrate a new interface that she has designed to map and sound the harmonics and natural tunings of a string quartet. She will play her “Long String Instrument” and observe resonances that develop when frequencies are added from a midi sampler tuned in just intonation and controlled with an iPad using TouchOSC.

It has not been determined if the museum will be able to open by this date, but I am certain I will not be able to participate. I am very disappointed, yet a very small price to pay in light of the loss of so many lives and such horrible suffering and fear. Let us imagine a new way to live in harmony with the Earth.

Installation and solo performance of “The Watch, reprise” in relationship to the exhibition of Susanna Fritscher.

Louis-Michel Marion and Hélène Breschand will perform Eliane Radique’s OCCAM at 3:00 pm.

Archivio Conz is overjoyed to announce the concert of Ellen Fullman and Konrad Sprenger.
The performance will be accompanied by an exhibition of works from the collection Francesco Conz.

May 26th 2019
The Archivio is open from 4pm
Concert starts at 7pm
Admission 8€

Archivio Conz 
Lise-Meitner-Straße 39-41
10589 Berlin
S+U Bahn Jungfernheide

Ellen Fullman has been developing the Long String Instrument for over 30 years; exploring the acoustics of large resonant spaces with her compositions and collaborative improvisations. 
The Long String Instrument was first issued on Apollo Records in 1985.
Fullman's work was cited by Alvin Lucier in his Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music 
(Wesleyan University Press, 2012).
In 2004 Ellen Fullman recorded the album Ort in collaboration with Konrad Sprenger on Choose Records.

Konrad Sprenger is the pseudonym of Joerg Hiller, a composer, music producer and artist based in Berlin. He approaches the strings of the guitar as frequency generators, tuned and set into motion by electronically controlled mechanical actions.
Sprenger currently released the album Stack Music on PAN.

The concert is organized by Archivio Conz in collaboration with Peter Kersten.

The Watch, reprise Thursday April 11, 8:00pm

Constructing A Musical Phrase from the Ground Up Monday April 8, 6:00pm

CurrentConversations Friday April 12, 12:00pm-1:00pm

The Watch, reprise Saturday April 13, 8:00pm

Student Life, Washington University
http://www.studlife.com/cadenza/2018/11/11/ellen-fullman-and-her-long-string-instrument-an-impossible-reflection/

Collaboration with Konrad Sprenger. Produced by Manuela Bennetton.

Harbors, a collaboration with cellist Theresa Wong

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture
The University of Tennessee at Knoxville
1715 Volunteer Blvd, Knoxville, TN 37996

ellen fullman
greg davis

Phi Centre
407 Saint-Pierre Street
Montreal Qc H2Y 2M3

Harbors, a collaboration with cellist Theresa Wong

Solo performance and collaboration with Daniel Fishkin in his residency series, “Tinnitus Suites”