Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong perform Rocket 八十八 (Baat-Sahp-Baat). This piece is part of day 1 of Double Infinity, an online festival celebrating Phill Niblock's 88th birthday.
Ellen Fullman, Long String Instrument, Shoveler
Theresa Wong, cello, electric guitar
Recorded December, 2021
Full festival here: https://www.experimentalintermedia.org
Harbors is on Bandcamp
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“Theresa Wong’s cello tones rattled and hummed and breathed across the space in a startlingly gorgeous juxtaposition with the Long String Instrument. Fullman and Wong layered the sounds of their instruments into a miraculous soundscape that defied linguistic description. At one point, I realized I was crying. ”
“The piece, entitled “Harbors”, evokes ghosts of renegade string sections and Ennio Morricone’s harmonica motifs. The increasingly colorful mélange of wavering notes and their errant reflections sound like the thrum of vibrant light.”
Ellen Fullman and Theresa Wong's duo "Harbors" maps the intricate weaving of harmonic pitch sets of the Long String Instrument and the cello. They have reverberated spaces of the Click Festival in Helsingør, Denmark, Transformer Station in Cleveland, The Lab in San Francisco, MOCAD Detroit, Nief Norf Summer Festival at UT Knoxville and the School of Creative Media in Hong Kong among others.