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ELLEN FULLMAN @ 110 LIVINGSTON
Ellen Fullman installs her Long String Instrument at 110 Livingston
Performances at 3 PM & 7 PM
Ellen Fullman, composer, instrument builder, and performer, will perform on her life-long work the Long String Instrument, where multiple strings are held tight across an entire room. Originally developed in the early 1980s in her Brooklyn studio, Fullman brushes rosin-coated fingers across dozens of metallic strings, producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones which has been compared to standing inside an enormous grand piano. Installed for a special concert at ISSUE's future home, 110 Livingston in Downtown Brooklyn, the reverberant and visually stunning jewel-box theater at will amplify this transcendent two-set event.
Program:
Collaborative duet with trombonist David Gamper (3 pm)
Collaborative duet with trombonist Monique Buzzarté (7 pm)
"Never Gets Out of Me" duet for cellist Theresa Wong
Collaborative compositions by Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong and David Douglas
"Through Glass Panes" featuring "box bow" performed by David Douglas and Thersa Wong
Collaborative duet with Sean Meehan
Ellen Fullman, composer, instrument builder and performer was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1957. In 1981, at her studio in Brooklyn she began developing her life-work, the 70 foot (21 meter) Long String Instrument, in which rosin-coated fingers brush across dozens of metallic strings, producing a chorus of minimal organ-like overtones which has been compared to the experience of standing inside an enormous grand piano. She has recorded extensively with this unusual instrument and has been the recipient of numerous awards, commissions and residencies including: McKnight Visiting Composer Residency in Minnesota (2010); Center for Cultural Innovation Grant (2008); Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission/NEA Fellowship for Japan (2007); and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program residency (2000). Releases include: Fluctuations, with trombonist Monique Buzzarté (Deep Listening Institute), selected as one of the top 50 recordings of 2008 by The Wire (London) and awarded an Aaron Copeland Fund for Music Recording Program Grant and Ort, recorded with Berlin collaborator Jörg Hiller (Choose Records), selected as one of the top 50 recordings of 2004 by The Wire. A documentary short on Fullman, 5 variations on a long string, directed by Peter Esmonde was premiered at the SXSW Film Festival in 2010 and is currently making film festival rounds. Empty Building, a documentary by Swiss filmmaker François Boetschi on Fullman' s collaboration with Jörg Hiller is currently in production.
David Gamper moves freely among the worlds of music performance, improvisation, and electronic instrument design. These passions merge in the performer controlled sound processing environments he has created for himself and other acoustic improvising musicians. He is a member of Deep Listening Band (with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster) since 1990. Among their performances and recordings is their collaboration with Ellen Full...
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LocationIssue Project Room
232 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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