Composer, instrument maker, and performer Ellen Fullman (b. 1957, Memphis, TN) has focused on the development of her signature project, The Long String Instrument, for over forty years. Using dozens ...

Long String Instrument composer and performer, Ellen Fullman, explores the acoustics of large resonant spaces with her compositions and collaborative improvisations. Fullman will literally “play” the ...

About 30 years ago in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, there were 20 strings, 50 feet in length, slowly humming a composition by Ellen Fullman — she thinks. There might have been more strings; probably not ...

1. Ellen Fullman musically transformed a former candy factory on Austin's Eastside in the early Nineties, converting the entire space into a sonic chamber with herself and others walking among and ...

Long String instrument composer and performer Ellen Fullman, shown during a concert at 2014's send + receive festival of sound in Winnipeg. Here in Houston she will "play" the atrium at UH's College ...

Early this year, I attended a cutting-edge music performance and workshop at the celebrated venue Roulette, in the heart of Brooklyn, New York, during which the ghosts of Memphis were very present.

Fullman plays a device she invented herself, called the “long-string instrument”. And it does exactly what it says on the box: it features 35 strings, each 23m long, which Fullman plucks and rubs with ...

When composer Ellen Fullman and her associates, Jessica Lurie and Matthew Sperry, run their rosined hands along the Long String Instrument, magical things happen. Fullman’s Capitol Hill studio is a 79 ...

Like most people these days, sound artist Ellen Fullman is sheltering in place. But she has an unusual roommate: a massive installation she calls the Long String Instrument. Filling the ground floor ...

Today, let's check out some videos featuring artist, musician, and instrument inventor Ellen Fullman, who will be in St. Louis next week for a residency sponsored by New Music Circle, culminating in a ...